[1] Dec. 1st – No action – Have a frightful cold – No room in the Hospital – So must stay in my room. 150

[New page, unnumbered (2)] Dec. 2nd –Fluoroscopy this A.M. No indication of spots or lesions. – My blood pressure is only 90/70 – The doctors

[New unnumbered page (4)] December 3rd – No action – No news. The silence is depressing, but we still hope for release by Xmas The

[5] Dec 4th – No action – very persistent rumors again about relief supplies – It is reported that we are to receive one large

[7] Dec. 5th – 150 persons, almost all over fifty years of age, left, for Los Baños at 2:30 A.M. today – I’ll believe all

[9] December 6th – Total blackout ordered for the camp – What’s up? Today, the Japanese said that they would bring into camp 150-200 kilos

[New unnumbered page (10)] Dec. 7th – Dorita’s birthday – Blackout restrictions made even more stringent – The Japs seem to be expecting something –

[New unnumbered page (12)] Dec. 8th – Dec. 12th – In bed almost all the time during these 5 days – down to 100 pounds –

[New unnumbered page (16)] Dec. 13th – No news today – But kit rumors still persist – Jaques Maritain’s “True Humanism” becomes more and more interesting

[17] Dec. 14th – Air raid! the first since November 25th – And an unusual type of raid – 8-10 planes over Manila all the time

[New unnumbered page (18)] Dec. 15th – The air-raid alarm has been on since 8:00 am Dec 14th – Today we had the same type of

[19] Dec. 16th – Bombing all last night and today! Same type of bombing and strafing – aim-immobilization. The Japanese papers today reported bloody fighting on

[New unnumbered page (26)] Dec. 19th – Still under alert here in camp – no action – Japanese planes are using fields again -Perhaps the bombings

[27] Dec. 20th – No action until this evening when some observation planes flew over – Later there were bombs dropped – Kit rumors stronger –

[New unnumbered page (30)] Dec. 21st – No news – no action – The Japanese stated today that they might give us some camotes, or more

[39] Dec. 26th – The air-raid signal was given at 10:15 A.M. and is still on at 2.00 P.M. – We can hear bombing in the

[41] Dec. 27th – No action today – The Japanese are going to cut our ration again – Well, it means just so much more determination

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,

[Separate sheet with date; recto contains text, verso of this sheet contains typewritten document.] Dec. 29th– The man next to me fed himself a spoonful of

[Separate sheet with date] Dec. 30th – Two deaths today – The man in front of me died at 3:00 A.M. – And in another section

[Separate sheet with date] Dec. 31st In the midst of life we are in death – Pleasant thought – but true of us – The

[There are no entries for January 1-9, 1945.] [Separate sheet with date] Jan. 10th Air-raid alarm on now since 7:30 AM Jan 6th Definite reports

[Separate sheet dated]   Jan. 12th (1945) Landings began Jan. 6th – MacArthur & staff landed Jan. 9th. 9:48 A.M. – Lingayen, Damartis, Dayupan, Mahilaoe taken

[Separate sheet dated] Jan. 28th Tho’ I am weak today, I feel rested and completely peaceful -I went to Confession last night & to Communion this