In July, we heard that MacArthur met Roosevelt in Hawaii, and that he
was finally able to convince the President that it was necessary to
take the Philippines in order to have a base from which to attack
Japan.
In August it was reported that 30,000 Japs had been killed don't
know where. .
September 15, 1944: Two-hundred aircraft had bombed Cebu, Negros
and Panay.
U.S. Navy Dive-Bombers! On Sept. 21-suddenly-out of a clear blue
sky-some thousand planes flew over camp from the east-they had to be
carrier planes. They continued west to an hour. Then the planes
returned coming down low over camp.
We could make out U.S. Navy markings on them. The Jap guards were all
crouching down in foxholes.
"Don't lose your head now! Don't show any emotion! The Nips are all
trigger-happy, just waiting for an incident to happen
before shooting up the camp."
A big Jap bomber tried to sneak off the local airfield that we had
built with prisoner labor. It was flying low-barely over the treetops.
A Navy dive bomber saw it, dropped down right over it and strafed it
with incendiaries. In seconds there was a big explosion and tremendous
orange flames as the bomber plowed into the ground.
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