In Tacloban nothing unusual. Presided at meeting of Board of Inquiry hearing Torres case.
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No air raids; very quiet. We started the day with just mush. No sugar, milk or coffee. Two small ladles of mush 70% rice 30% cornmeal. Incidentally, there is no more corn unless the J.A. brings in some more. Tomorrow for breakfast will be just plain rice mush. Not much nourishment to that. This noon..
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In the broiling sun, on our mat rolls, we lay surrounded by straw bags, cloth bags, and jumbled possessions, a perspiring, tired, confused crowd. About two-thirty, they announced that trucks would be coming soon, but not as many as before so the trunks and heavy bags must be left by the road under guard till..
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Dec. 28th – No action - Tonight at 7:00 P.M. my good friend, the former monitor of our room, Woody Wilson died - Swollen with beri-beri, his heart muscles gone from starvation -Damn the Japs! My friends are being wonderful to me - one sent me talinum, another a glass of malted milk, another a cup of cocoa..
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Bombings and fires, also night and day have many explosions about Manila and suburbs, Japs are evidently destroying supplies and the piers.
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We leave [Panay] today early, with Osorio as our objective for the night. The day is cloudy and the sun has not come out with its heat. We have made in good time the rough mountain trails, hitting a point a little over Osorio at about 7 p.m. Here we bivouac for the night, on..
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