European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes april yanks remember horrors of Bataan Bataan vets rally in dec this Friday continued from Page 4 assaults forced it May Friday some of the survivors of the of the philippine Campaign will meet in Stuttgart Graf Zeppelin from enlisted Man to these now in the will compare their included among them will be Clinton Augsburg military Post cd Arnold Stuttgart military Post and Gen Lewis cd of the Kitzinger Basic training the stories of what happened to these men and their Tives Are Many and of these some of them Tell their tales of eventual map of iia Ian ii area Jap beatings marked trek continued from Page 4 my pm number was and 65 was Stonestreet and Obrien later were taken to where Obrien roughed Down at Clark near when the first attacks came on the was George now with 7907th Albu Art on Wicks outfit blew up the Field and moved to the Railhead in North by april he had and after the ammo dump was sex he and some buddies took off to avoid they lived and worked with filipino guerrillas for nearly two years before they were evacuated on a sub in of the 884th air Materiel at Rhine was in the front lines for 73 Days at Orion cutoff on captured april he was interned first at Camp then at and later was shipped to Hanawa on Honshu is South of on mountainous Mindanao about 500 americans were captured by the Jap anese in the Spring boy now with the 708th air Materiel at How the japanese beat an american major to death for no apparent i was Roberts because i count in Sampanga province i z am a province Dino Lupion s Olon Gapo Bifong Orani Alburn Noti Bataan province Manila Bay Mariveles Australia map ships that never came worse than Jap prison by Mildred staff correspondent Berlin for american ships that never came was worse than fighting with or even a Jap prison according to Dominic stationed at the 100th complement nothing during the four months of fighting in Bataan was worse officer led guerrillas continued from Page 5 filipino and stayed behind the lines from december 1941 until the forces returned in january Bruce is now stationed in Salz Burg with the 7753rd military government detachment he said the japs had a Price of pesos on his with orders to bring him in dead or but he stayed on eating bats and Donkey while his weight dropped from 175 pounds to several months of Bis dangerous Bruce was act ing icing of a Loyal band of 800 a dwarfish tribe of negroid people who killed a great Many japs with primitive bows and a than the Nightmare of waiting our Prospero at least 50 per cent of us were suffering from and As Long As our temperatures didst go above we were Kepf on the front most were sick the food was most of the men were sick with dysentery or had been when Bataan i never thought id live through three and a half years in a Jap prisons Camp in All of us were pretty sure wed had but who has had 14 years army says he got his revenge by at Yokohama War crimes trials in Victor of the Safe no tells of Corregidor fall by Albert staff correspondent Wiesbaden Money in the Field finance office for Bataan was sent to Corregidor 36 hours before Bataan surrender and was burned according to Donald now of Ker near Clark Field when the War Christmas eve he moved to and on Christ japs used i to shield fire by Dwight Schear 1 staff correspondent Frankfurt Maxim of says his first forced labor As a prisoner of the japanese on Bataan was a human shield for Jap heavy artillery we were marched a Long Way by the japs and then huddled in a Mas Day to he said then it was decided to open a Field finance office on and Ker went there with his when the surrender order Ker was bivouacked with a head quarters about 250 Yards across a Hill from the main body of rations already had been but As yet no japanese troops had been Ker said his outfit did not know the japs had been in the area until two men failed to return from a visit to the other in the half hour they were the japanese had Watt All of a Sud Den we found artillery pieces around the big guns opened up and began shelling our american when artillery began whist Hng shells Back Over our a few rounds fell Watt Chandler Only two of the american shells which dropped on us another Veteran of Bataan Sta toned now in Frankfurt is Merle 18th when he was recovered by rooms in Japan at the end of the the 185pound c h a n d 1 e r weighed less than 115 marched away All the men of the main troop and done it so quietly and so quickly that Small group did not even pc nov they had stayed together Ker said he and the others worried because they might be shot As but they stayed to and the next Day the Jap anese came Back and picked them they were marched for six Days to san from where they were sent by train to Capas and marched the Short distance to Camp Ker declared he was beaten once during his term As a after he had been sent to where he mined Coal for More than two lost his temper and hit the Jap Man of the the Foreman turned him Over to Jap Ker and he was7 going to be f Ker had Learned by thir time something of the sense of through a stunt he got the guards turned him 16th twice during the was wounded last Days of a Veteran of 18 years in the he says he never lost Faith that the would win the not Eyen during the eight months he was a Jap prisoner on wounds in ankle the fighting was rough with two barely healed wounds in my thigh and he it seems a Long time but every once in a while i wonder How in still John of the 549th pm was in Corregidor when Bataan we knew that we were he about Field artillery plus were being dropped on us every i got a piece of shrapnel in Iny left and punctured my right ear Daly dec Mem recall death March continued from Page 5 living on Rice and dying from now he had to oversee the raising of White two Days later Cordero was among 30 american officers stripped of shoes and except for and put to work carrying material from one to another Down a gravel All the time we were working we had a Jap standing by us with a club in his and every time thought we were not doing the right he would hit us Over the Cordero now co of the Henry and wills Kas Ernes in Cordero re called that his next assignment was removing dynamite from land mines his men had placed along the after three Days without they were sent off with a canteen of water and a cup of uncooked Rice on a Days March to on the East coast of they arrived at night and were beaten when they tried to Light a fire to Cook the it was not until morning that he saw a mass of thin and they were moved into a Field and told to sit they crowded us together so there want room to stretch our our chins were against our and we were doubled As i nearly As possible into the shape of a they kept us so until 2 in the Tropic and without Cordero As they in arched out of Balanga on what was of become the death the japs dumped boiled Rice into their canteen Cordero said was Lucky be at the head of the line because the men in the rear got one of the few living men who made the death March twice was now a member of the 45th at Furstenfeld Bruck after the 28th material left Clark Field where Galloway had served in the crash he covered the japs from a machine gun nest on Bataan until the sur after the 88th Materiel left on the death Galloway covered the distance to Sah Fer Nando in four Days and three nights and was sent to Camp Odonnell by Only to be sent right Back driving a that second March was some what but what he always will remember vividly were the Hob nailed boots of the Jap guards who kicked him As Fie on a a Row of ribbons on his Chest i and the scar of a Bayonet wound1 on his Back Are mementos of Taan and the death March carried by Earl air at Munich Mem Aff it took him 10 Days to make theft he ate food thrown natives and sucked water Muddy the third Day out Felt the Sharp Point of a Bayonet in his from then on it slow but he didst Hajj would have meant Brown was being taken to Japan j aboard the ill fated Subic Bajraj when Allied bombs bit and Sank ship of aboard he was one of less 400 the pcs ship had no identifying 5 Frank with the 47th was with the St tsp Pursuit when if retreated Bataan and started fighting i tic guns instead of two buddies carried Toft he recalled of the Deatti i three and one Hall years the guards of his pm Camp took american planes drop the War was now 18 months in Sweeney looking Forward to going
