European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly november 1945 when the japs came to accept the Pitts was hit in the leg by piece of shrapnel from a Shell that wounded or killed 42 Preslar had been shot in the hand accidentally they were both weak and sick when they were thrown into Bilibio next said they loaded us into a train for hey stuffed us in worse than it was hotter than and there want any there were a Hundred men to a Box about 35 would have been fairly comfortable in we walked the last 20 Kilometres to Caba i heard about the death March from and i guess i never would have made i barely made the March to we started Oft with a canteen of but that didst last none of us were after the time on we were Hall and the nips haunt helped just some Rice a couple of times a Day since wed beat hell out of anybody who arid they soft a stiff a Man would fall and they beat him with clubs and kick him to Sis if he didst get they set a Small White Flag by and go i guess that meant he was i never heard what happened to anyone they left by the Side of the we were at Cabanatuan for five Dur ing the first two there want any medi Cal setup at dysentery broke every body had i everybody but we were it was pretty bad but we didst know How bad it would get in other they were feeding us just about enough to keep us i and we were always Hun we went out into the Jungles every cutting 1 guess those trips into the Jun Gle kept us we worked like but we managed to pick up a Little More to Preslar in a Coconut and i have been Ever since he they kept us going that and we were Able to take a lot More than the others who didst get anything More than what the nips gave there were bananas out we used to sneak off the and hide them till they got when the nips said they shoot any body they caught sneaking fruit Back into they did catch six Guys and they were but after they gave it got to be a them telling us they shoot us if we were but the Way it is with the japs is this any thing you do is Okay As Long As you dont get caught at getting caught is the to on june the two with 300 other american mostly army were loaded cars for the trip to Pala worked on an air strip we worked on it All the time we were 10 hours a Day for Over two Preslar sometimes we worked after it was just a relay strip Between Luzon and Bor and i never saw More than six patrol bomb ers there at any one the nips didst have much fuel for they just sit there for two or three Days at a time and never go occasionally a ship would pull in and unload Gas and but not very we got a Day off a week at then a Day off every two weeks for a we got a Day off when and if the nips Felt like giving us the first week we were six men is i dont know what Ever happened to All about 27 men escaped from and made it into the the nips were pretty lenient until the first Bunch then they cracked they split us into squads of 10 men they told us that if any Man tried to the other nine men in the squad would be we didst have any escapes from our Bunch after living was miserable at like All other Jap prison Only one third of the men had they lived and worked in two of the pos were beaten to they were on a detail which was unloading a they and four others stole three cans of the nips missed the and they lined us All the commandant demanded that the Guys who stole the stuff step no one then they started smacking hell out of we had to stand at attention while three guards passed Down the line and beat each Man with another a first sergeant and former nip baseball Star whom we called the had a he passed behind the Guys with the clubs arts Cut us with that it lasted two one of the Guys who had helped steal the beef admitted that he had done he tried to take the whole but the other five  let him do they All stepped we were forced to watch what happened to they were tied to a Coconut facing the the guards had clubs bigger than a baseball they beat those Guys across the and across the when a Man would pass they throw water on him until he came then they beat him they kept this up for about 20 when they two of the men were the other four were sent Back to Manila to the dungeons at fort one Man came we never heard what happened to the other the Camp commandant would sometimes hide a Carton of cigarettes in the Jungle we were then hed say it would belong to the company whose men found it we never knew exactly where it of so wed Cut Jungle grass fast As we hoping to get to it before anyone else at Christmas there was a the 10 Best workers got a Towel and two packs of Jap cigarettes in August the marines were shipped out of Palawan with approximately 200 other prisoners for shipment to Manila and there were More than 200 american officers and enlisted men left at the Camp in Palawan when the marines sailed to Manila for the trip to in Manila Harbor they were loaded on a freight it was a hot morning in there were 1500 prisoners in the two holds of the each said would have been big enough for 400 men to sit Down there were about 750 in jammed we were standing there was one toilet bucket for All the men in the most men had so you can figure out for yourself what that place was like at the end of the first this was the first time we had an idea of How close american forces i saw nips on deck wearing life looking they never worn life belts men but noon Chow in their prison Barracks out this is jute prior m r eating uti Ohi dropped