Couple Interned At Santo Tomas Tell Of Jap Brutality
Americans, not the Japanese, took down our flags and civilians faced orders to behave like grown ups as internees endured hunger, crowded quarters, and brutal camp conditions at Santo Tomas and Baguio. Dr Haughwout and wife recount 18 months apart, dysentery, rationing, and demoralization attempts by Japanese guards.
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Santo Tomas
Army
Navy
Haughwouts
Manila
Hanghwonut
Baguio
Haughwout
Autyard
War memoir of Santo Tomas internment and Kurusu ties
Dr. and Mrs. Haughwout recount life in Santo Tomas during Japanese occupation. Internees faced starvation plans, brutalities toward Filipinos and British civilians, and executions. Personal items and medical libraries were lost, while a bond with a Japanese diplomat exposed wartime tensions.
Cuff links mark a long-ago bond amid wartime Santo Tomas chaos
The tale follows Kurusu’s apology to Dr Haughwout and the gift of imperial chrysanthemum cuff links. Twenty years later they aid identification at Baguio while guards tighten control in Santo Tomas as rumors of MacArthur’s return ripple through internees and espionage thrives among inmates and American citizens.
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Tokio
Kurusu
Dr. Haughwout
MacArthur
Philippines
Santo Tomas
Leyte
Haughwout to Write on War Experience After Internment
Dr and Mrs Haughwout plan time with Mrs Sydney Bradford in Hagerstown. He is compiling government internment reports and will start serious writing about his experience soon.
General Attends Daughter's Wedding After Germany Return
Brig. Gen. John H. Church, Ninth Army task force leader, arrived home from Germany to attend his daughter Martha Church Vailentine's wedding to 1st Lt. John T. Vailentine of Houston. Church had been overseas since June 1943, served with Patton in Africa, and recently returned to the United States for a 30 day duty assignment. He flew from Paris in 26 hours.
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John H. Church
Ninth Army
Germany
Martha
John T. Vailentine
Houston
Tex
Church
Seventh
United States Army
Paris
George S. Patton
Africa
France
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