Evening star., 1945-02-02
Rescue
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approach it invited being shot OF
whipped
Tech. Sergt. Harold J. Glass, Long
Beach, Calf. said minor infractions
were punished by crowding as many
as 20 of the accused in a small cell
where they were forced to stand ur
for II hours. When night came
they could squat down If there was
room-but a guard woke them ul
every hour
Sick or we'll, prisoner couldn't
win.
Best Rations to Workers.
THE best rations went to the
workers" said Staff Sergt. D. c
Raines, Bombay, Fla. an aerial gun
ner who was wounded on Bataan
and captured in a hospital. He has
been hospitalized ever since.
If you couldn't work you got
whatever they could spare. We got
so hungry in the hospital that for a
while We supplemented our rice ra-
ton with soup made or sweet potato
leaves"
And if you were we'll?
Chief Staff Sergt. Clinton Good
bla, Longview, Wash, said the
healthiest prisoners were segregated
and shipped to Japan, many after
the Japanese realized that the
Yanks would reconquer Louzon.
Many were forced to work on Jap.
anese airflelds.
(Arthur Feldman of the Blue
Network, was told that one Amer
ican prisoner was killed mad
vertently by strafing bullets of
American planes raiding an en-
envy airfield where he was at
work. His death occurred Just
48 hours before he would have
been rescued)
Garrison Fled 3 Weeks Ago.
The main japanese garrison fec
the prison area three weeks ago
moving on to Northern Luzon. TIL,
prisoners were warned they woult
be shot by passing enemy soldiers
If they left the stockade.
The road past the stockade be
came the main artery for movemen
of japanese soldiers from th
Manila area. So the prison con
| stantly was renamed.
The 407 picked Rangers and guer
rillas who stole 25 miles behind Jap
anese lines to stage the rescue
every man was decorated by Gen
Douglas Macarthur for heroism-
killed at least rs Japanese in tn,
stockade.
At the evacuation hispital, tn,
prisoners were handed cigarettes
Immediately many emptied tn,
butts of cigarettes from the pocket!
of ragged trousers.
mo more saving butts, men, s
freed man shouted gleefully.
Throw 'em away. Throw 'en
away"
The only time the men ever att
anything like their fill at the stock.
ade was after the Japanese mair
garrison fled and the prisoner!
broke into the food stores left be.
hind.
Until then, each day meant a lit
tie rice and virtually no meat.
when the Japs butchered F..
carabao, they'd throw us the head,
said Pvt. Alfred Jolly, San Fran
cisco.
Sometimes they'd give us tn
bones for soup. That was about al
the meat we got
1T seems to me that for month
and months at time, we though
and dreamed only of enough to eat,
recalled Sergt. Goodbla.
The agonies of going without foo,
were impressed on the men from
the very first day they began tn
death march" from Bataan.
Drank From Puddles.
"On the first day of that march
they gave us no water either" sal
a participant, Laverne Ritchit
Trenton, III.
I'VE drank from mud puddles an
even then they threatened us witt
bayonets for Tagging
Another participant, Sergt. Ar
thur Harrison, Fresno, Calf, sa,
no one given food by the Japanes
during the first six days. Filipino
tried to sneak some food to tn
Yanks but any soldiers accepting
risked a beating, possibly death
and many died.
How many? God, don't know,
said Sergt. Harrison.
AT San Fernando Captured las
week by the Manila bound Yanks
they jammed us, 100 to a small box
car, for the last lap to Camp ODon
nell.
Camp O'Donnell also was oc-
elptsd recently and found to con-