European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                M sag1 r killing stragglers but some Fellows helped me into a a few feet away from where we half a dozen Clad Only in thin Long handled Cotton Lay stretched on the they were deathly their Hipbone showed Sharp their feet and Ankles were bruised Stanford looked at we Are bes look ing prisoners you will Ever he our regular guards pulled out in a hurry on three weeks we have been stuffing ourselves on their food Ever we had Coffee Ralph of Oklahoma on Bataan with 2 confirmed Stanford the 500odd men in Cabana Tuan had gained an average of 15 pounds apiece during those three Anderson gained 38 pounds and weighed 154 when he had weighed 200 on 170 when captured and 116 on 60 Miles due North of was once a filipino army the japs had simply added three 18strand barbed wire fences and guard towers mounting machine and called it a pow at one time prisoners had been confined most of them Ameri the army transport service and a smattering of British and dutch military personnel and in Early 1944 the japs began to move them presumably to Formosa or the Empire hundreds Are buried they Are Stanford told in a space smaller than a City the summer of 1942 was the were dying at the rate of 20 or 30 a one Day 65 the japs made us Bury holes and then throw 40 or 50 bodies in one when the Hole was full we covered it the smell made most of us Hubbard told of the same men died so fast it was impossible to identify their the the major told had stripped the prisoners of almost everything by the time they reached Many were Stark we kept what records we could on toilet the labels off any kind of wrap often there were Only we turned these Over to the but i dont think they forwarded them until late they did not classify us As Anderson until August of by Ozzie George yank staff correspondent the men Here know Well what the phrase prisoners of War they seen americans survivors of Corregidor and the death March freed after 34 months it is not a sight Many of us will the worst i said Albert Parker of a newly freed was knowing that the japs could do anything to anything they wanted parkers Knees he sat Down suddenly and bowed his head Over his we were in a farmyard near a dirt Road 10 Miles North of Cabanatuan in the Central lingayen Joseph Stanford of Pitts and Lloyd swede Anderson of were three of the 510 pos in Cabanatuan rescued the evening before a Small Runan grab raid by a reinforced com Pany of the 6th Ranger Anderson sniffed a he i could have gotten anything anything in our for n Stanford fumbled with a we cant strike matches he explained we Haven had any since we were he lit a 1 am going to smoke myself sick he somebody How was it Anderson Drew slowly on his he said seriously Stanford that All we would never be captured Stanford fought through the first month of Bataan and was transferred to Mindanao Cap tured their on May held in the Davao in i i i men who fought at Bataan and Corregidor Tell How life was behind the barbed wire of a japanese pow penal Colony until june then sent North to Cabanatuan he wore faded Blue Denim shorts and jacket and Jap Anderson and Parker were similarly a 60th coast artillery antiaircraft fought through escaped to Cor Regidor by Small boat when the Peninsula fell and was captured there on May and sent to Cabanatuan Parker fought through Bataan and was Cap tured at its fall on you were on the death March somebody asked is that what they Call it he we walked to about 65 three Days and three nights without Only such water As we would sneak out of the we were loaded into steel boxcars at men to a they jammed us in with Rifle Butts and took us to fort 1 gave out at Capas and was paralysed from the Waist the japs were somebody asked about the Anderson hesitated a he Cabanatuan 1 had a farm a few Kilometres from the the prisoners worked on it from 0700 until 1100 and from 1200 until six Days a Anderson we worked every we never they broke the ground for that farm with hoes and worked it with hoes and their and Vitamin said that is what we Call the stuff the guards beat us Hoe a anything they could Lay their hands it was keep your head Down and your backside if we straightened up to they let us have our guards at Cabanatuan were Taiwan they were the farm grew native egg peppers and the camotes and and some times the were for the prisoners the japs took everything