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10-21-44

Air alert sounded at 0755; 0830 air raid alarm sounded. 0920 air raid secured – back on alert. At 1400 this date a draft  of medical officers and hospital corpsmen (92 in number) arrived from Cabanatuan. PERMENTER, Don 0., PhM2e, USN, and NOVAK, Lous, Jr., PhM2c, USN, were in this group, the remainder of this group being U.S. Army  medical personnel. Air alert secured at 1500. Recapitulation of current draft personnel residing in Bilibid is as follows:

MEDICAL: Field Officers …. 28

Company Officers … 26

Enlisted men ….. 152

206

NON-MEDICAL Field Officers …. 229

Company Officers … 661

All others ….. 413

Total draft …… 1,509