Escaped Prisoner Reveals Bataan Horrors Told by Maj Hawkins
Fort Worth dispatch recounts Marine Maj Jack Hawkins from Boston Texas describing the mistreatment of American prisoners in the Philippines after Corregidor. He details water scarcity food rationing and a diphtheria outbreak while narrating the escape and the parade through Manila streets as Filipinos offered aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sera Fort Worth
Philippines
Jack Hawkins
Boston
Texas
Hawkins
Pinay
Corregidor
Red Cross
Fort Worth
Charles Ragland
Fartier Rivner
de Toit
Nellie Hawkins
Roxton
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Prisoners of War Starve and Die in brutal Death March
The account recalls the fall of Corregidor and the Japanese siege that forced 7,000 Americans and 3,000 Filipinos into harsh confinement. Starvation, disease, and filth spread as prisoners endured rice diets, filthy trenches, and brutal mistreatment, then were moved by rail and on foot to camps where death tolls climbed into the thousands. Major Hawkins describes crowded, unsanitary camps, lack of shelter, and rampant dysentery, with prisoners marched through Manila and subjected to brutal discipline.
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Corregidor
Hawkin
Pasay
Manila
Cabanatuan
Wueve
Ecija
Hawkins
Tory
O'Doll- Hell
Po Tubs Wo
Mindanao
Sammy
Comrade Grashio recalls Dyess leadership in Bataan escape
Chicago correspondent Charles Leavelle reports Capt. Samuel Grashio, once a close ally of Col. William Dyess, recalling Dyess as a steadfast, unexcitable leader who kept his men focused through Bataan, three prison camps, and a wartime Atlantic-to-Pacific ordeal. Grashio, reaching Hollywood for a memorial, praises Dyess’s selfless care for enlisted men and his personal sacrifice during raids on Subic Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Leavelle
Chicago
War Department
Samuel Charles Grashia
Spokane
Wash
William Edwin Dyess
Bataan
Grashio
Dyess
Grashlo
Subic Bay
Grashios
Ed Dyess
Grand Island
Tokyo
Kelly Field
Hamilton Field
Calif
21S
Tom Fmander
Will
Texas
Sertet Areii
Anen
Grashia
Cabanatuan
Sam
Célores Dyess
Sam Grashio
Sam Grasbie
Peacock to Head Menger Hotel Manager Role
Joe A. Peacock named by Winthrop P. Younger to head the Menger hotel starting June 1. Peacock, longtime San Antonio hotel executive, has career at the Gunter and the St. Anthony, and has been active in civic affairs.
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Joe A. Peacock
Forture
St. Anthony
Menger
Winthrop P. Younger
Affiliatea National Hotels
Peacock
San
Saréer
Gunter Hotel
Paul McSween
St. Anthony Hotel
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Transit Company
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