June 8th 1942
Rice for three meals. Soup from a little meat, onions and tomatoes for two meals.
1942
8 June 1942
Monday. Good squash soup as we got to M.H. Margarine was thick in Bottona Hurt grain carrying sack of rice 120 #. Rumors so good… Read More »8 June 1942
June 8th, 1942
One room of “Death House” looks fine with white wash. Yard now clean. Toilet working.
June 7, 1942
Quezon thinks this is a business war, caused by slavish imitation by Japanese of the Western powers’ methods of monopoly. If the Japanese had not closed the… Read More »June 7, 1942
June 7, 1942
Our guests are becoming more and more irritating. Familiarity has degenerated into contempt, and they keep on commandeering the little that is still left with… Read More »June 7, 1942
7 June 1942
Heavy rains make camp a quagmire. We dig drainage ditches for dysentery-ridden O’Donnell group. Paths to their latrines lined with feces each morning —men just… Read More »7 June 1942
7 June 1942
Sunday — No church set up as yet. Have only missed a few days of reading a Chapter of Bible Daily & on Sundays I… Read More »7 June 1942
June 6th, 1942
Formation of hospital area group; appointed Executive Officer — 66 officers & 1 Red Cross man + 183 corps men in group.
June 6, 1942
a.m. Having himself dictated a letter to President Roosevelt requesting that he be given a seat on the Pacific War Council, which was sitting in… Read More »June 6, 1942