Expendable Chapter I battle for the Philippines told by four officers
Four remaining Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron officers recount the early 1941 to 1942 Philippines campaign. Lieut Bulkeley, Lieut Kelly, and Ensigns Alers and Cox relate preparations, sabotaged fuel, makeshift HQ, and brutal travel to Mariveles and Sisiman Cove. A tank crew dogged by heat, mud, and a daring escape share courage, fear, and the line of march toward Manila with scarce weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron
John Bulkeley
B. Kelly
Anthony Alers
George E. Cox Jr
Henry J. Brantingham
Australia
Bulkeley
Phlippines
Lieut
Kelly
Manila
Pearl Harbor
Mariveles
Bataan
Sisiman Cove
Lieut. Kelly
Core Regidor
Peggy
Night on Corregidor Rock Hospital Peeked by Love and War
In a tunnel hospital on Corregidor Island a naval officer recalls life under siege. Nurses and Peggy charm him at a ward party as Japanese planes sweep overhead. Shortages, bravado, and grim doubt mingle with a fleeting sense of normalcy before the island’s fate tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Malta
Gibraltar
Corregidor
Newport
Manila Bay
Bataan
Kelly
War Stories From A Pacific Front Tunnel Hospital
A veteran recalls a bomb raid on a tunnel hospital in Manila Bay where nurses and corps men worked under flashlights with limited tables and morphine. Peggy, a nurse, steadied patients as shelling shook the tunnel and morale remained high among Filipinos, sailors, and officers ahead of Manila’s fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy
Manila
Akers
Admiral Hart
Army and Navy Club
Dolores
Catalonia
Philippines
Prohibition Era Crime and Bootlegging Legacy Recalled
During the last war propagandists secured a nationwide ban on legal alcohol sales, leading to years of crime and bootlegging that stain American history. The Mercantile Trust Building in Baltimore is noted in the excerpt.
Salads and Cauliflower Tips From a 20th Century Kitchen
Susan Snow outlines practical kitchen guidance on arranging salads, keeping greens crisp, selecting cauliflower with white heads and no dark spots, and avoiding sun exposure. She warns about shipping damage and brand labeling on canned foods, notes inconsistent labeling, and offers frosting color tips and sugar measurement methods.
Honey Tapioca Cream And Other Kitchen Tips
A collection of recipe notes and cooking tips including honey tapioca cream using egg yolks or whites, milk, and quick-cooking tapioca. Also contains guidance on cheese storage, pickle fans, making soup, meat cooking methods, sponge cake air leavening, fondant, and pan broiling steaks with step by step temps and techniques.
Glamour Desserts Brighten Budgets and Morale
Glamour Desserts by Sidney Snow promotes simple, budget friendly sweets to lift family spirits. A tapioca cream pudding with quick cooking tapioca forms the base, served with pink poached apple segments and orange membranes, plus a jelly accent, aiming to nourish while delighting.
How Cigarettes Start Forest Fires
A cautionary note urges readers to avoid tossing lighted cigarettes from vehicles as roadside brush fires threaten timber vital to the war effort. The piece warns that a small cigarette can ignite a larger blaze and compares the risk to an incendiary bomb, urging cooperation with the State Forests and Parks department to prevent fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Department of State Forests and Parks Wan den
Hawaiian Legend of the Volcano Goddess Pela
The Hawaiian legend states the volcano goddess transformed into an old beggar woman whose refusals sparked volcanic eruptions. Meanwhile a Formosa fisherman’s harpoon, lost in a 300 pound swordfish, was recovered by George Engel in New Britain Connecticut after the wound healed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pela
Formosa
George Engel
New Britain
Conn
Apple Jellies in Tapioca Dessert Recipe
A vintage recipe describes making a tapioca cream with egg whites and milk, then flavoring and chilling it. Apples are peeled cut into quarters and cooked until transparent in a red jelly and water syrup. The dish is assembled with three pieces per sherbet glass and serves seven to nine.
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Chapter
Air Force
Air Corps
Krencei
Paul Uaurbor
Luvon
Tip
MacArthur
Islands
Association of
Maryland Distillers & Allied Industries
Susan Snow
Ain
Dloner
Erly
Sidney Snow
Hemian
the National Brewing CO. E
Baltimore, MD
Bailey Goss
WBAL
Eddie Wabbard
R. B. Baker & Son
Grasonville, MD
Joyce and
Janet Kern
Marshall
Beauty Gaia
Denton
Sinclair
Sinclair ReAaing Company (Inc
Sinclair Opaline
Sinclair Pennsylvania Motor Oil
Port Vetts
Sinclair Refining Company (Inc
G. D. Crouse
Denton. MD
Thom McAn
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