September 21, 1944 — Thursday
10:30 AM Colonel Lehrbas aide-de-camp of General MacArthur called me by phone and told me that General MacArthur wanted to see me. I went to… Read More »September 21, 1944 — Thursday
10:30 AM Colonel Lehrbas aide-de-camp of General MacArthur called me by phone and told me that General MacArthur wanted to see me. I went to… Read More »September 21, 1944 — Thursday
**The boys are here at last** At 9:30am, about one hundred carrier dive bombers came out of the clouds, complete surprise; shot down the Japs… Read More »*****September 21, 1944
It has been another quiet day. Only Japanese planes flying around. More civilians keep coming to the college every day, and we are like a… Read More »September 21, 1944
What a day! At about 9:15 a.m. American planes started a raid which lasted all day. Estimate 300 planes came over—beautiful diving. Anti-aircraft firing not… Read More »September 21, 1944
[Note: after the last previous entry, April 20, 1942, the diary resumes at this point.] U.S. planes bombed Manila this morning and afternoon. They came… Read More »September 21, 1944
They have arrived! At 9:30 in the morning and 2:30 in the afternoon, without any siren warnings to those who after so many exercises were… Read More »September 21, 1944
Today is a red letter day. I saw American planes over. More than 100 flew over this a.m. at 9:30. Came back over at 10:30.… Read More »Thursday 9-21-44
The partial blackout started on Aug. 22. There was an occasional practice air-raid alarm and one or two actual air-raid alarms during August and the… Read More »August 22-September 21, 1944
This day, so long expected, Manila was bombed. From practically orchestra seats in my house between two airfields, in a street lined with gasoline dumps,… Read More »September 21, 1944