January 6, 1942
Air raid number 6. Lasted from 1 to 4 PM. Water not too plentiful. Hit at Battery Geary kitchen and 26 men were killed. General… Read More »January 6, 1942
Air raid number 6. Lasted from 1 to 4 PM. Water not too plentiful. Hit at Battery Geary kitchen and 26 men were killed. General… Read More »January 6, 1942
Very busy day in the office organizing rice distribution for the people. Thank goodness, the rice situation is now more or less under control, but… Read More »January 5, 1942
Raid number 5. Planes near at 7:30 AM, which is the earliest yet. I moved secret documents from the barracks to the battery. Lt. Aikman… Read More »January 5th 1942
The Japs took advantage of the clouds today to stage a little raid. The clouds were quite low so the planes could not be observed,… Read More »January 4, 1942
The battalion (less Company “B”) was ordered to move to Corregidor. At 10:15 A.M. , the battalion (less Companies “B” and “C”) started by boat… Read More »Dec. 24, 1941 – Jan. 4, 1942
Sgt Walker and three Privates returned to organization at 162.5 Bataan from Corregidor. We had giventhem up as lost.
Raid number 4. Bombs over Cheney at 1:30. Had a bath in the week old water at the quarters – pretty dirty. By now any… Read More »January 4th 1942
Today has not been particularly exciting, except for a rather long air raid. It seemed to me that the raid signal was on from early… Read More »January 3, 1942
Raid number 3 at 12:52. Hit on no. 5 machine gun but no casualties. Three enemy planes downed. Two waves of bombers over Cheney. Glassburn’s… Read More »January 3, 1942