December 29, 1941
Command Post Ft. McKinley Our division has been ordered by Corps headquarters to retreat and form a new line with a view to defending the… Read More »December 29, 1941
Command Post Ft. McKinley Our division has been ordered by Corps headquarters to retreat and form a new line with a view to defending the… Read More »December 29, 1941
Cholera, typhoid, and dysentery shots (first of series of three) for Beth, Clay, and me. First air raid shelter completed—blocks of pressed sugar cane residue,… Read More »Monday, December 29, 1941
Manila pronounced an open city, but still the Port Area and other places were bombed yesterday. Blackout was done away with last night. The north… Read More »Mon. Dec. 29/41
A sleepless night. The three-engined planes droned in my dreams. Every engine that sounded in the streets reminded me of them, and the crackling of… Read More »December 29, 1941
The army nurses had left for Corregidor and Bataan, and only a few of the medical officers of the administrative staff were left. The civilian… Read More »December 29, 1941
Capt. Praeger said his men were too tired to take the hard trail so let him follow Bonnet’s route to Aritao. We continued on toward… Read More »Dec. 29, 1941
The war holds your problems in grateful suspension. You almost dread the coming of peace which will once more precipitate them. For the moment, they… Read More »December 29, 1941
The open city idea isn’t working. We sat yesterday under three hours and twenty minutes of constant bombing, formations of nine planes being always in… Read More »December 29, 1941