December 25, 1941
Yesterday I was promoted to Senior Administrative Assistant at annual salary $3600.00. I am to be left behind with Wilson when the military personnel are… Read More »December 25, 1941
Yesterday I was promoted to Senior Administrative Assistant at annual salary $3600.00. I am to be left behind with Wilson when the military personnel are… Read More »December 25, 1941
Home all day. There was no work, and there was no place to go. At noon, waves of Japanese bombers circled and circled over the… Read More »December 25, 1941
Christmas Day. We do not feel like eating much breakfast. News is that the invaders are coming in on two or three sides, but our… Read More »Thur. Dec. 25/41
All Christmas Day was spent in moving our stuff off the boat to our new camp. We had no Christmas dinner.
Day dawned bright and clear, end as I was in charge I went immediately to the kitchen but Ada had beat me to it and… Read More »Thursday, December 25, 1941
The Filipinos have named this day well. Black Christmas! The blackness of despair and resignation was everywhere. Only the Axis nationals and the Fifth Columnists… Read More »December 25, 1941
To Hawaiian-Philippine Central at Silay in afternoon. Spent morning watching things loaded on truck and furniture stored in Bacolod. Took Jim’s clothes from suitcases packed… Read More »Thursday, December 25, 1941
USAFFE has endeavored to declare Manila an open city, but to no avail, apparently. Every [enemy] bombers flew over the city today for over an… Read More »Dec. 25/41
It is now 1 p.m. What a Christmas! With a multitude of patients, Sternberg Hospital was in a turmoil this morning; trucks and trucks of… Read More »December 25, 1941