8 April 1942
[Marginal note:] Bataan fell! A new day which I hope proves to be no worse than yesterday. The II Corps pulled back during the night… Read More »8 April 1942
[Marginal note:] Bataan fell! A new day which I hope proves to be no worse than yesterday. The II Corps pulled back during the night… Read More »8 April 1942
We walked all night and arrived at # 2 at 7:40 AM. tired, hungry and clothes torn. Had only 1 raincoat, 1 gas mask, 1… Read More »April 8th, 1942
The enemy’s front lines are practically at our back door. I took my bath late this afternoon at the ravine, and a large piece of… Read More »April 8, 1942
Things don’t look good at all — that is they just look worse. News from up front is that most sections are in a confused… Read More »Wednesday April 8, 1942
Things are very bad, our lines are cracking and it will not be long before we fall. I talked with several from the front today… Read More »April 8/42
Big ammunition dump afire at Marivales [Mariveles]. Took one of my Lts. [Bruce Nixon] to the tunnel in an uncontrollable and violent state of combat… Read More »April 8, 1942
Today starts the 5th month of this mess and a new era for me. It is wonderful here. Hardly know a war is going on.… Read More »April 8, 1942
The last few days in Bataan there were many admissions of malaria & sane dysentery. Surgical wards were one crowded with medical cases. A few… Read More »April 8, 1942
[It has been suggested] that we should not order a fight to the bitter end [in the Philippines] because that would mean the Japanese would… Read More »April 8, 1942