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Vets of Philippine•(Continued from fife One) ',and on roof tops tonk two cracks at us. We put on speed;* and almost .overturned when, the truck struck the bodies of!c~tHTft^tr(f*3apsi/nhe middlc'of the sfrcct. Amdng the-merr* I talked to was Richard .Johnson, brother of Matthew. John-. ‘“ •»■*■■*•’« v**'* • VJ I ».»V III yiiav^ v • t'lM •• ^_son, 2Q00.Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, who has heen in dhe ‘f~nd saw nis son for tne tirsPhilippines twenty years and saw his. son for tne tirst tin’ in seven years when he came in wdth our troops as a supply lruck driver. .. tAnother was Wilson Carey, formerly of Richmond. Va., v who came over with the 9th Cavalry in 1906 and was retired ® as a second lieuteiiant in 1932. He is a brother of Ernest-j Carev, who'formerly lived on Fifty-fourth Street in PhiladeU phia. ' -j.Calvin Paris. 312 Pine Street. St. Louis. Mo., came here h in 1937 and worked as an announcer for Radio Station KZAH. cIsaac L. Lloyd. Tarboro. N.C., former telegraph operator;; and a retired soldier, has a cpusin, jCUra E. Farrell, in Caret,•'I-Va.Also in the group are William Scptt. Wilkes County, Ga ; r Charles Williams. Memphis. Tenn.; Roger B Carpenter. Bowl- t -mg Green ,-K-y.; ftober t-Cowans-Chat tanooga.-Teim,,-w:hfl-ha,.s._ a brother. Miran Cowans, living at f/18 Georgia Avenue, y Northwest, • Washington; Sgt. George Chambers. NorfoHy t Va.. who came over in 1900 as a member of the 24th: Henry s McDaniels, (‘hickamauga. Ga., 24th Infantry veteran and now ]; -a Civil Service worker. *Service Troops Enter Rattle -aWhem-their-trucks- were.stalieilJny blown-out bridges ndropped in the river by retreating .lap demolition unitsCJj colored service troops were hustled into front-line action^ against the Nips in house-to-house fighting through sniper-infested Manila. ■ -tThese colored quartermaster supply drivers and their v trucks were commandered by a white combat infantry eom-,? mander of the 1st Cavalry Division as they swept into the San- t to Tomas Jap internee civilian prison^ to free hundreds of _ American civilians. —/Jesus Merritt, Philippine-horn son of Julius Merritt of w Cinncinnati,. Ohio, who came to the Philippines before the J first World War. gave me an account of the treatment re- ( ceived bv the prisoners.. .v. *His father died here in 1920 from a disease contracted d while stationed in the islands attached to the U.S. Army Mcdi- c cal Corps. Merritt was forced to stay apart from the prison- j ers. hut was fed the same rations—dirty rice stalks, dark t bread and water. He‘had lost 20 pounds. His first words were: “Have thev caught mvbrother?” i: r' ‘ ’When told his brother w'alt;T stilt fighttTrginttre hiltsrMer-^ritt wept and said, “Thank God; he is still carrying on where ln dad left off.”As our troops flushed the Japs from houses along the, road to the city, tan Yanks rushed forward with sorely need ed food for ^ie relief of civilians.
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Feb 10, 1945
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