November 5, 1944
This was a thrilling and exhausting day! Five air raids! During the first raid, we watched over two hundred of our bombers dropping their loads… Read More »November 5, 1944
This was a thrilling and exhausting day! Five air raids! During the first raid, we watched over two hundred of our bombers dropping their loads… Read More »November 5, 1944
A death and a birth today!
The faces of the elderly people in camp had a drawn and fixed look and their legs, no longer resembling legs, were grotesquely edematous. The… Read More »November 3, 1944
Two more deaths today from beri-beri.
The heavy rains beat into our lean-to with its three open sides, and Catesy and I worked frantically to protect our cooking equipment and small… Read More »October 31, 1944
Our adult death rate was climbing, and many of the older ones who had no supplementary food were dead or on the critical list. There… Read More »October 30, 1944
Hallelujah! Our bombers came three different times today! Japanese guns barked frantically but ineffectively at our bombers. Seemingly unperturbed, our bombers taxied in and out… Read More »October 29, 1944
The younger men in camp, who had been doing the heavy manual work, were informed by the Commandant that they would have to start another… Read More »October 28, 1944
When our bombers failed to show up today, we could have wept from disappointment.