European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank army 1945 they took All the Anderson then issued it to but they kept it until it was hard or we did our own Over open fires at first later we made stoves and ovens of Clay and scrap we had Only one kind of vegetable at a plus Stanford or sometimes Only breakfast was Rice and mostly we got 250 Grams of Rice per Man per about eight ounces or two double hand we 160 Kilos about 350 pounds of meat per week for it figured out to a Little under three ounces per we got the leftovers guts and so generally it was carabao but there would be weeks at a time when we did not get any meat at we got fish we never Everett Dillard Ctm of Cooper who was captured on told of men eating rats and i he but i went Down to b5 my Hipbone broke through the i did eat and can eat any piece of Cornstalk straight out of the ground with As much relish As i once ate i i because i wanted we All All of us that Are still the will to live was All that kept us now id like to get Ive had 22 years service and i can still do some Good on a Stanford agreed with we Are he because we wanted to and because we Learned to we had if we were caught they made us stand in the Sun for three or four hours with our arms stretched level with our if our arms dropped we got a or particularly with they made us eat what we were dirt and the Taiwan tried to make one Man eat half a Bushel of they forced them Down his Throat until he we had strafing Anderson that concentration amp talk for pockets sewn inside our jackets or pants legs that we could hide things a anything to strafing Means stealing of any and it Means a beating we have a language All our half half Pino half we figured Stanford that it Cost tote japs Between three and four cents a Day to feed i dont think we could have lived with out the you can say they were really in there they really stuck their necks out to slip us anything they there All during 1942 and details of or men worked on Cabanatuan the Anderson told think Only in thousands men for men for other details were sent to Cut Wood or to other parts of Luzon to work on roads and while on details the prisoners went the japs kept their shoes to discourage these details were literally worked to the the Taiwan guarding these Stanford told always gave orders in when we did not understand they beat us those Anderson were just Plain they made us count they would leave us standing in for mation in the lot of tricks like there were a lot of rules and Shakedown All that a shake Down meant the guards came through and took anything they we kept our stuff buried most of the prisoners who broke the were accused of breaking the put on Short rations and deprived of we had nicknames for the worst Anderson White Clark Don Ald big White Angel was a son of a once classified As pos the men were paid while on cos got 25 Centavos 12 cents per privates and pics 15 offi cers were paid 10 pesos per later raised to All payments were in Jap there were other Stanford in Davao we built Rice Paddy dikes of carabao dung with our in Cabanatuan we fertilized the farm with our with human the japs took pictures of that and showed them to the Fili there were other they were worse than we had to Salute All or if we did not have a we had to Bow to that was the worst of Cabanatuan Barracks were of approximately 50x16 they had a doorway at each six Small windows covered with Bamboo shutters and dirt floors with a narrow Board cat walk Down the on either Side of the cat walk were double tiers of 6x10foot Bamboo up to 125 men were quartered in each sleeping five or six to a during the typhoon season the Barracks were invariably tobacco in Cabanatuan was literally Worth its weight in on a very few occasions the japs sold it through their commissary at prices too High for the now and then they issued the last Issue was in August bags of Molly weeds the nips had used in making a nicotine solution for insect filipinos slipped tobacco to the prisoners or gave it to de tails working outside of Hubbard showed us his homemade cigarette Holder a 2inchtjong Ebony Cylinder with a Hole the size of a match stick in the that fit our Stanford and he dug one an Inch Long out of his uncured filipino tobacco and As big around As a May we never see there were in the red Cross pow but those pack Ages almost invariably were rifled before the prisoners saw cigarettes and any sweets while they the men traded wrist rings and so on to the japs for those the japs called our personal packages were often rifled if we got them at Anderson told we got our first ones in late the japs had let us write a card in March of almost a year after we were they told us then that we could write one every but that Promise did not work sometimes months would go and they would Tell us there were no there were several chaplains in Cabanatuan and a few but religious services were subject to approval by the they Tell us we could have Anderson then Send everybody out on the prisoners had their own bar Racks like the their own doctors and they Medicine at except now and then some Jap issued later they were Well supplied through red Cross in Stanford told we had More medi Cine than the japs we used to Trade them sulfa for we even made some sulfa our selves and in Davao some i think they used fire extinguisher fluid As a part of the novo the by the tried and tried to Analyse our sulfa drugs but never made the in the prison Hospital the commonest ailments were broken miscellaneous bruises and above two operations that resulted in what the pos called Vest pocket Bunghole were performed follow ing prolonged Cabanatuan Contact with the outside world was nonexistent at first and sketchy but surprisingly accurate during the last filipinos for a Long time supplied most of it by word of the prisoners Learned of the Normandy Landing late in our news was Stanford except the time the japs let three readers digests slip through in a personal that was in March we had those magazines until they fell most of the time our news was just but it was usually we heard about Leyte landings almost when we heard that Green Clad hordes of americans swarmed we didst know what to make of until when we saw your Green Green uniforms were on 121 picked men of i the 6th Ranger commanded by Henry Mucci of former Honolulu Provost the battalion was formed months ago in new Guinea at the Sugges Tion of Walter Kreuger and trained for six months Over the Dusty Hills of port once in the rangers grabbed outlying islands in Leyte Gulf on aminus3 of that land ing and grabbed Santiago Island at the North Western tip of lingayen Gulf on this neither show produced enough Jap opposition to suit the Cabanatuan raid was Down their they were itching for company reinforced by one got the Mucci went just for the you  keep him the rangers Cabanatuan was 25 Miles in Advance of our front the rangers reached the Vicinity of the melted into the Countryside and cased the the Rescue was original planned for the evening of the japs picked that eve Ning to Send a motor Convoy through the rangers Lay sweated out the night and next and struck at dusk on the the Stanford told never knew what hit about seven Oclock George Barber an English Tommy captured at who jumped ship in route to Formosa and was Recap tured in the Pis took a sack of potatoes up the about 15 japs were sitting there were about 50 More in arid around at a Quarter to 8 the shooting the rangers closed in from three the raid went off like they smashed the streamed inside and annihilated the somebody stuck his head into our Anderson and its were get the hell out of Here we didst have to hear that within 25 minutes the rangers and prisoners were on the headed the japs counterattacked with tanks in the rangers and a detachment of about 300 fought them off and covered the an additional 523 japs were the rangers lost one killed and one the guerrillas 26 and the entire pow party was conveyed from the Point of entering our lines to an evac in Towanda half and weapons it was their first ride in 31 i went a great share of the Road was lined with was cheering gis and the gis threw cigarettes and and yelled Welcome Back and Hows it going the freed men yelled Back glad to be Back and Good to at that everything was they Chain used matches profusely for the sheer Joy of threw Long Butts away with an they threw cigarettes to the they chewed Anderson yelled at a truck full of 1st Cav you sure look from time to time they stood weve got no meat left to sit they the heavy wheeled weapons a Park of a Soldier with a the cubs dipping Low Over our a Bull were new to these a source of wonder and Stanford look at their helmets Anderson every Guys got a different kind of gun they gaped while i tried to describe an were rip Van Hubbard everything is i Felt oddly like a proud