European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april to Al f Bataan fell to japanese 6 years ago this Friday this Friday it will be six years since a Small car bearing a White Flag rolled along a philippine Highway towards the japanese lines near when the car reached the japanese fines it signalized the surrender of some disease ragged american troops and filipino and the end of the fight for the rapid japanese Advance after their landings on the Philip Pines a Day after Pearl had cornered on Bataan almost All that remained of fighting men by the end of the first week of january for three the dogged men of Bataan held though their effectiveness was tremendously reduced by growing hunger and by april 9 the situation was completely hopeless and the troops were surrendered in it seemed at the to save meaningless further but the japs had other ideas about the value of human ordered their captives to Start what has since become known As the death a Rock fortress in Manila Bay opposite held out a month but combined bombing and Landing continued on Page 6 pm f Beer describes life in Jap prison Camps Darmstadt Houston 7818th in was Headquarters commandant on Bataan april Farris received a message at Bataan at that the Mes Sage said Edward cd of Luzon had we packed up and moved with 80 men and 20 officers in ivs ton trucks in less than 25 Farris we drove 65 Kilometres Farris northward to head quarters of i although we were strafed by we suffered no Farris said they at corps Headquarters until evening when a Jap officer arrived with his the americans were ordered to drive to Camp but they loaded every thing into their j trucks the next Jap soldiers took the trucks away and made them Start put on Farris and his  begun the Bataan death Rice on seventh Day for six Days we dragged ourselves along with no Farris said on the seventh we were Given a bowl of those who sat Down to or dropped by the Side of were shot or one a Catholic was Bay netted and left to but he was Only we were divided into groups of 100 for the and on one Day 12 of my group collapsed in the heat and were arriving at san the americans and some filipinos were herded into boxcars for a nine hour trip to a Point near Camp half starved and Many they still had 15 Kilometres to walk to the a lieutenant colonel got As far As the Tarris fell dead right during the next two and a half Farris went on work served As pm mess officer at Cabanatuan internment and helped build Jap in where Farris and 800 other american pcs Fere working on they were caught in the first raid on Luzon in their Encampment was badly and they were moved to Manila Bilibio the next month they were shipped from but after three Days at submarines got so hot after us that our Convoy of 30 Jap ships turned Tail for Farris upon reaching there were Only 12 ships we stayed in the Harbor 14 Days when american planes started in on so we took off in the night for daily bombing of Formosa continued for two Farris after the attacks we were again loaded on a and after 25 Days we reached from the time we left until Wev arrived at 41 of our group died dysentery and other in Farris worked in Lead and Zinc mines at Sasakura in Northern Farris takes Over on Farris and his group went to work in the mines As but were returned to the Camp at they were suspicious about the situation because Jap soldiers went to the Village Center to to the radio and women were the american prisoners did not know the War was until 20 when Farris confronted the japanese commander and the Jap admitted the a few hours an american colonel phoned Farris from North of telling him to take Over the at a format surrender the Jap commander turned Over his Samurai sword to Farri Sand gave Farris command of the Russ liberators insist on special surrender by Eugene staff correspondent Paris Edmund Veteran of Bataan and prison described How russian forces staged an official Render ceremony at in by rearming Soldier guards who six Days before had surrendered themselves their american american Graves registration com Mand inspector who commanded tee 57th scout on recalled his world War ii he said Jonathan had described lillys scouts in these terms the scouts were the Best soldiers Ive Ever seen and the were the Best after four months of Lilly was captured april the Day Bataan battling against the japs up to the last then followed two years in prison Camps on Formosa where the japs slapped and starved the hell out of a month on Kyushu and finally More than a year in Korea our Jap guards at a Camp near Lilly themselves up to us soon after six Oss men parachuted into Camp on Vij the japs apparently had received word from higher Headquarters to turn their arms Over to the american when the our official arrived August we were mighty to see then they amused us by vivid the japs Back g u and staged a signified were not to but invited stand on the ones and and we sure kick out of the Votsy the russians Kefei Moniou sly degrades our former Lilly also f of How he on Bataan after killing a slew of and said surrendering was something jf4 dont want to do Lilly i airmen at Rhine main beatings of Bataan Eldon Scott staff correspondent prominent in the Story of the fall of Bataan is the Story of the illustrious 19th Bof Lvi became provisional infantry on Bataan when air strength was Duj to realized and there was nothing left to do but fight for time on the three veterans of the which was awarded five presidential citations for Are stationed now at Rhine main air they Are Stewart Stonestreet 7907th Albu William 15th Carrier and 884th air Obrien and Stonestreet were taken by the japanese when Bataan but Wil Liams with two other gis Williams re i off into the mountains by till March 1944 we scrounged off the land to Williams joined the underground filipino and contacted the 7th Fleet by a hidden radio in the with equip ment brought in aboard american sub under cover of he reported Jap troop positions on almost two years after he had capture and Williams boarded a submarine near on the North of the and was carried to safety in his memento of the War was a Bullet in his thigh from a Jap two of Williams comrades in the 19th bomb Stonestreet and did not fare so Stonestreet said he made the death March from Bataan without a but had the scare of his life when he was on a working detail in Bulacan there were 130 of us building a Bridge there in he one the japs decided to choose five of to be shot in continued on Raymond Demers Roy Roberts George Obrien Williams Stewart