March 1979 - Philippine Defenders Main

VOLUME 33
PITTSBURGH, PA. -
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1979 CONVENTION-MIAMI BEACH. FLA.
CARILLON HOTEL-MAY 6 TO 13
Your Convention Committee has
completed final plans for the 1979 Miami
Convention. Many hours 01. plarming have
been spent in developing the proaram. All
we need now is for the members" to take
advantage of the plans.
While the first scheduled event is
Wednesday yet many 01. the members plan
to be at the Hotel Saturday or Sunday
before the start of the convention. The
hotel offers the same convention rates
before and after convention.
For thO&e who don't plan to acquire the
Florida sun tan at the pool side there will
be many mini activities available for the
members. Of course the evenings are
planned with the entire registered
membership.
U you haven't attended one ol the Conventions yet, attend this one and see what
you are missing. Many of the various
outfits or P .O.W. Camps have special
luncheons aDd meetings at the Convention.
These activities will be posted on the
BuUetin Board. We ask thO&e in charge to
. please coordinate your plans with the CoDMIAMI BEACH - Plduresque waterway. divide Miami Beach Into more than 30 vention Committee so proper space can be
Islands. They provide pladd ~haMe" (or sightseeing cruise boats and safe harbor for made available. Let us know your plans.
Won't you'all come.
pleasure craft, many of the Ia.!,ter docked at the door of their ownen.
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G.S.M. MRS. E. ELLIOT
We all are very deeply saddened by the
death of our dear Gold Star Mother I Mrs.
Elizabeth EUiott, who passed away on
January 19th, In Somerville, Mass. Mrs.
Elliott was a lways very active in our
organization, and at one time was noted to
have not missed a National Convention in
many yean. Besides being Past National
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President of our AmericanDefenders Gold
Star Mothers, she also was Past President
of Middlesex Chapter t1 American Gold
Star Mothers.
Mrs. Ellott is survived by ODe daughter,
Dorothy Brackett of CalifOrnia, and two
soos, Rodger of Lexingtoo, Mass., and
Harold of Somerville, Mass; also seven
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
PLANS COMPLETED
WELCOME FROM
FLORIDA CHAPTER
News briefs from Florida Chapter
A.D.B.C.
Our last convention which was held at
The Langford Hotel at Winter Park,
Florida was a great success. Over 100 of
our members and their wives attended.
Two special guests, Dr. Marrco (from Pat·
terson, N.J . formerly with The 27th Bomb
Group) Flight Surgeon, and Art Davis,
N.S.O. were in attendance.
Billie Holliman was married on Se~
tember 17th. 1978 to Aubrey N. Lee. They
were still honeymooning at the convention.
All of our members are looking forward
to seeing you at the Miami Convention.
LADIES ONLY
The Executive Board voted funds for a
sightseei,. cruise for all the women who
wished to make the tour. The tour will
leave at 11 :20 and return at 5:30. Tra.
portation will be provided from the hotel
and return. Tickets will be provided as the
ladies register, arrangements will be
made through hotel supt. or service.
The Cruise includes the most colorful
highlights of Florida's amazing Gold Coast
and feab..tring a tv.. hour stopover at the
world famous Villa Vizcaya.
The Vizcaya is a wondrous dream world
of 17th Century Italy recreated by the late
James Deerinn at the C1J8t of over 20
million dollars.
This tour is well worth the time, we hope
the wives will take advantage d. the tour.
Dedicoted 10 lhose ptf10IIs bolt! N'Iing ond deod who fought ovumt
Oyerwhtlming odds OOOinsl!he ""lIlY ot!he outbreok of World War II
Officiol Publicotion of !he
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SPOUIIE MEmNG CHANGED
COMING EVENTS
APRIL 5, 6, 7, II'l'
WESTERN STATES CHAPI'ER
Ormsby House
Carson City, NV.
JUNE 16, 117.
NORTHWESTERN
MEETING
STATES
The officers 01 the Northwestern Stata
Chapter regret to announce that the
chapter meeting in Spokane has been
changed, due to circumstances beyond our
CHAPTER
RUlings, Montana
l!ontact Jim Young
1213-2Stb St. West
MAY .... 13, 117.
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Billings, Moot. 59102.
Carillon Hotel
Miami Beach, FLA
MAY I thru lUll __
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Wm. Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, PA.
cootrol.
In • special meeting with the coounittee
and other officen, Commander MODty
Montgomery recommended lbat the meeting be returned to BUlinp, Montana. JUDe
16, 1m for • vote 01 the members OIl tbe
11180 meetLng place and date.
Mucb interest baa bee:D received
regarding the Spokane meeting by the.
cretary. and Spokane could weU be the
host city for 1980.
AUGUST Z6-lt, 117.
SURVIVORS ofBATAAN" CORREGIDOR REUNION at FONTANA VIlLAGE
Contact Fontana Village
Fontana Dam, N.C. 28733 (or reservations.
Wayne Carringer is our Chairman.
The 1m meetlng will be held in the
American LeiPOG P.t on Broadwater
Avenue, in BWirWt, Montana. JUDe liS,
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The no boet meet:I.DC will be open at noon
for vialtiDg, buaineu meeting at3:00 P.M.
The fri~p hour will be 8t6:30 foUoweci
by the no bolt banquet.
James M. young, Sec'y.
1213-25th. Street West
Billings, Montana 58UIl
Z-THEQUAN
J 979 MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION
WESTERN STATES CHAPTER
1979 ANNUAL REUNION
MAY9·J2
TENAflVE SCHEDULE
~ Registration: Wed.-SallD:OO a.mA :OO p.m.
$25.00 per person
Covers aU activities for the convention
Members not registering (Saturday Night Bar)
Wednesday-Saturday
Wednesday May 9
5.00 per person
The 1979 annual reunion of the Western
states chapter of the American Defenders
of Bataan " Corregidor will be held at the
Ormsby House in Carson City, Nev. on
April 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1979. Here is a
tentative schedule of events:
Service Officer Conference
Wig Demonstratioo 2:00 p.m.
Dog Racing ( Prizes) (1 hr.) 8:00p.m.
Thursday, AprilS - Registration - 1:00
Executive Board Meeting 10 :00 a .m .
Eveaing Free.
Friday, April 6 - Registration - 10:00
p.m. t05 :00 p.m .
Thursday May 10
Cosmetic Demonstration 10:00 a.m.
Square Dance 8:00 p.m.
State Chapter Meetings 2:00 p.m.
Friday May 11
General Business Meeting9 :00a.m. & 1:00 p.m.
P a lm Reading 10:00 a .m.
Gold Star Mothers Luncheoo
Cocktail Party 5:30 p.mA):30 p.m .
Banquet 7:00 p.m .
Dancing9:00p.m .
Complimentary Bar9:00 p.m.
Saturday May 12
Memorial Services 11 :00 a .m.
Past Commanders Night 9:00 p.m.
Dancing and Complimentary Bar
a .m. to5 :00p.m .
Trip to Virginia City (or aU who care to
go. Bus will depart the botel at 12:00
noon and return at about 5:00 p.rn.
Commander's Reception - 6:30 p.m. to
8:30p.m.
Saturday, April 7 - Business Meeting "
Election <XOUicers - lO :OOa.m. tol2 :oo
noon
No Host Cocktail Party - 6:30 p.m. to
8:00p.m.
Banquet-8 :00p.m. to9:30p.m.
Dancing to the unforgettable music <X
" our" era - 9:30 p.t:". toI2 :30a.m .
SU~day, ~pril 8 - Pack your bags and
head homel I !
Due to the limited nmnber of rooms
available at the Ormsby House. and the
The sightseeing cruise is planned only for women on an individual basis. Free tickets
will be supplied by organization and arrangements will be made through Supl ci Service. Transportation to and {rom dock will be furnished.
Tickets will be required at aU activities.
ever increasing number of our members
attending the Reunions, especiaUy the
ones beld in Nevada, it is BUUested that
you make -your reservatiOlll well in advance of the cut-off date of March 25, 1m.
You will fmd a reservation card enclosed
VETERANS BENEFITS
don't get your reservation in on time, there
is a new Travel LodIe just one bloclt away
from the Ormsby House. Tbere also are a
number of other motels in the immediate
~
Two laws that drastically improve
veterans' housing, pensioo and survivln'
benefits an! among the DeW provisions
explained in the Veterans Adminiatration'S . I9'7'9 revision ci " Federal Benefits
(er Veterans and Dependents" (lS-l Fact
Sheet) llO'Ii available for $1.50 throUlh the
Superintendent of Docurnerlts in Washing-
too. .
This handy 71-page booklet provides an
updated summary for VA and non-VA
benefits and the eligibility requirements
(or veterans and dependents. There is also
a complete lislq: ci toU-Cree and local VA
pbone numbers. Tbese numbers enable
anyone in the 50 states and Puerto Rico to
caU VA, without charge, to consult a
veteraDl counselor (or complete benefits
informatioo and assistance.
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Vetera.. and other perIODS and altncies service veterans desiring the VA'. lSI Fact Sheet abould request it (rom the
SuperintendeDt ci Documents, U.S.
Government PI'inlq Office, Washington,
D.C. 20402.
DIVIDENDS
A record $485 million in dividends will be
paid during 1979 to " million veterans
holding GI life insurance policies, the
Veterans
Administration
announced
today.
No applicatioo is needed, VA Administrator Mal[ Cleland emphasized. Individual policy holders wbo have kept their GI
insurance in force from either World War
I, Werld War n or the Korean eooruct will
receive their paymeDts automatically 00
the annivenary dates of their policies, be
said.
The S,3B4,OOO Werld War II veterans with
current GI insurance policies will receive
dividends totaling 1433,300,000. 1be
averale payment 01 $128 is up $U from last
year.
Individual amounts will vary from the
average, Cleland explained, depending on
the type of policy, amount 01 lDsunmce,
ale at issue or renewal and the time the
policy bas been in force.
Tbe 99,800 policy bolden from World
War I will recei.vean averageof$256eacb,
up from $224 in 1m, for an aggregate of
$25.6 millioo.
herewith for your use. U by chance you
area. Do plan to attend. We reaUy have a
delightful time and its so nice to see old
and dear friends. Rates have been
established at $28.00 single or double at the
Onnsby House, but only for ADBC'ers! ! I
We will besending you further information
on the n!wUoo as it is developed
An average payment of $48 will go to
544,000 Korean Conflict veterans wIlo kept
their GI insurance in force, an aggregate
fA. $2:6.1 millioo.. This group received $29
average payment last year.
1be 1979 GI insurance dividends like
other insurance dividendi, are bilher ' in
recent years because·the funds on deposit
have been earning liigber: interest. Divideods on VA insUrance policies represent a
return fA. funds not needed to pay the cost
fA. the insurance.
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Beitefl,tting most (rom the higbei interest rates are those veterails who have
c.onverted. their !nsurance ptaJII to·
manent type policies rather than continuing the original term policies Cleland
explained.
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MARCH.
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VIRGINIA STATE CHAPTER
We're somewhat late with this Newsletter but it is never too late and always acceptable to wish you all a HEALTHY and HAPPy NEW YEAR!
Our Ninth Annual Convention was held at the Chamberlin Hotel the weekend oC
December 8-9, 1978. Friday night was our "Quan" evening; a good gathering ofmembers
and their guests for dinner and backgroWld music. Thanks go to the Paul Harmon's and
Howard Morgan's for planning and preparing the dinner.
The men held their meeting on Saturday afternoon. Our convention started at 6:00
o'clock with a cocktail hour, followed by a lovely dinner. Past Commander Howard
Morgan called upon Harold Feiner to give theInvocation. After dinner each memberwas
invited to introduce himself and guests.
Commander Morgan gaye an interesting speech and passed the gavel on to incoming
Commander Paul Moore. He addressed the assemblage with a short speech. Past Commander Howard Morgan swore in the new officers. Harold WBS called upon again to
relate the many messages received with good wishes for a successful convention from
our members. Now it was dancing time to tbe music of the Sammy K band. Dwing the
band's intermission the raffles were drawn.
THE WINNERS
Congratulations to Helen Linton - a beautiful ladies watch ; Irene Wonneman - a
four slice toaster; Alice Hill - an electric can opener.
THANK YOU
We gratefully thank Paul Moore foe donating ladies electric shaver; key rings for
door prizes. And necklaces which were given out to the ladies by Paul Hannon. Also
thanks to Dewey Smithwick for the azalea plants given to the lucky door prize winners.
NEW MEMBER
A warm welcome to I..eopoldoPimentil- Virginia Beach.
Pre'- To History
PREFACE TO HISTORY OF 27th BOMB
GROUP
"For Wall' of an Alrplalle" The reader
bas only to bear in mind that one phrase
and the tragedy, pathos, comedy, and all
other elements of this book are explained
for once and all.
This is the story of the W·fated 27th
Bombardment Group (Light) and written
by Officers who sW'Vived the destruction of
that Grotlp. It is not in our hearts to make
this a sad story - rather, we hope you will
be able, as you read. to live with us, to
laugh with us, to understand why those
who died did die, to take into accotmt the
surge of war against those whom you knew
in the 27th, and lastly, and most important,
to forever record. for those of us who have
up to now survived thiJ war, a story 01
"The Old 27th". To those of you who read
thiJ and are unfortunate enoogb to have
lost a son, husband, relative, or friend we
hope you will understand what it meant for
us to lose them too. '!bey were our team
mates, every man. Nooe of us in the
remnants of "The Old 27th" bas ever
gotten over the fall of Bataan and with it
tbe27th.
We were not able to mate this as com·
plete as we wanted - we haven't near
enough pictures - we baven't a true
picture of the 21th's last hours - we bave
no news from the Red Cross that most 01
those on Bataan are Prisoners 01 Warthough this seems a wealthofmaUrial, we
haven't been able to put ill over a baH of
our experiences due to time and the Wor·
mation not beiqr 00 band at the time oi
printing. Nevertheless, we are DOt able to
figure the value of this book in terms of
4-11IE QUAN
Of 27th Bomb Group
rate of exchange for it isn't wortn money.
Colooel John H. Davies inspred the
conception of this book.
The Empire of Japan bought the 27th
Bombardment Group. On April 10, 1942,
they, the exchequers of the Japanese War
Machine, closed the account of the 27th
Group and marked it "Paid on Bataan".
Strictly speaking that was a very ODe sided
view to take - a slant-eyed view, you
might say, for on April 11th. 11M2. the
sW'Vivors of the 27th Gp. re-opened the
account and this time it was marked
"Bought on Dataan". The account at this
writing is still open am:! many installments
have been paid, but Pte final installment
will be paid by Tokyo.
For want of an airplane the 27th Group
lost it's life - but Tojo, there might not
have been enough airplaoes ill the
Philippines for the 27th Group but don't
you wish you had captured us all? God give
us Strength . . .
To those of you who were able to carry
on the flght from thiJ theatre 01 activity
you have my highest praise. YOlD' deter·
mination togetsometbingto flgbt withand
yolD' struggle to get it where It could be
used regardless of the tremeodol.ll handi·
caps confronting yoo proved your loyalty
to your country. You exemplified the spirit
of letting the job done regarcDess of bard·
ships, heartaches, aod apparent lack of
support That sPrit is the stuff that our
country depends on to accomplish the task
facing it today. You are worthy of every
praise I can possibly give you and I take
this opportunity to saluteyou.
JOHN H. DAVIES,
Colooel.AirCorpo.
4 Charlton Avenue
Piscataway, New Jersey08854
Dear Joe:
The following item might be of interest •
to other members of the American Defen· •
ders of Bawn and Corregidor, and I hope
you can rmd room for it in an issue of the
Quan :
In May 1945, three years after serving
with the Fourth Marines on Corregidor,
and after interrunent in several POW
camps in the Philippines, Taiwan and
Japan, I was transferred by the Japanese
toa camp in NUgata, Japan.
Before being liberated from Niigata I
struck up a good friendship with a British
POW; Edw"ard J. (Ted) Collier, fonnerly
of the Middlesex Regiment from Hong
Kong and I became good friends. Ted and I
corresponded for several years arter he
returned to England and 1to the States.
Somehow, over the years and some mov·
ing around, I lost Ted's address. On trips to
Great Britain in 1968, 1971 and 1975, I tried
to locate Ted, but to no avail. Then last
year I had a letter from him - he found
my sister's address among some old
papers. Immediately we were back in
touch again. I immediately made plans to
visit him.
Last April 1 Dew to London and took
London's efficient Underground (subway)
the same day to meet Ted. It was a most
pleasant reunion, and Ted and his family
treated me like visiting royalty. While ~
there I went with Ted to his Middlesex
Regiment service club. where we met
some of his " mates", also from Hong Kong
and POW camps.
Ted Collier was interned in Ntigata, also
the Yokohama Stadium, and stevedores.
Jack Milroy was ill Akanobi Camp Copper
Mines, the Saku Regiment at Osaka ; Dick
Harris worked on the Mitsubishi Railway
at Osaka and Nagoya.
Ted, Jack and Dick would like to be ill
touch with members of ADBC who may
have been iIIterned with them. Others of
the Middlesex Regiment would also like to
get in touch. Anyone who rememben them
can get in touch through me at my home
address (above) .
Sincerely,
William E. Griffiths
BOOKS
"We are desirous d. building up the
history library rJ boob about the
Philippines, ieBATAANIrCORREGIOOR
and would like dooationa of such books
sent to JEROME A. McDAVITT, Histcrian
ADBIre, P .O. Box 82633, SAN ANTONIO, •
TEXAS 78218, to be added to our rather •
small collection. '!be boob that we have
are those donated by some very wonderful
people or purchased by Jerry McDavitt
Would some of you like to help?"
RUSSELL
Ansel RusseU Jr. fought ballle8 00 laod.
sea and the streets of Cincinnati. 1be
Harrodsburg native', life was far from
.. ordinary, and part ~ It will be remem·
, bered in a book soon to be publ1sbed by Bill
Noyer d. Loa An8:eles.
Cincinnati's "mOlt baUered" police
officer, and war hero. who died Saturday,
July 15, 1978 at Jewish HOIpltal, Cincinnati, Ohio. lived with extraordinary
valor - lint, as a aervlce man ligbUng for
bis country in both the Army aDd Navy in
World War II; second .. a detecUve with
!be Cincinnati Poll.. flgbting crime, and,
last. fighting a bing battle agaiDat pMt
injuries. Hew.s56 yean old.
''The voyage d. the Maetan" will recount
the tale of a litt1e-1mown Red Cruss
bosp.tal &hip carryiDg survivon d. the
B.We of Bataan to AWltnlia. AoIel
Russell was OQ that abl.p. And becaa.&e he
was on it he met his wile, Merna, in
Melbourne.
Russell W8I an anti-aircraft BUDDer
attached to Batter')' M of the 80th CoaIt
ArWiery at Corregidor. He was wounded
in the legs (our Urnes in 17 days in the first
da)'l of the war, and was taken to
Australia December 31, IMl, on the ship
Mactan. It was the lut hospital shl,p to
leave Col"l'fllidor.
Tbe story of the ship with recollections
by Russell and others CD It will be " by
.. Irving Williams .s told to Dorothy Carr
, Broeg," Mrs. Ruasell said
"We met when he was working fcc
General MacArthur'. ,tatf in Australia,
and w,ere married in two months." They
have. IOn, Paul Leroy.
"Anael was with \II until Paul was six
months old, and thea we didn't see him (or
twoyeara," Merna said.
He was off fi.&btiq& with the Army in
New Guinea. "When be lot back to the
States," his wife noted, "be lot his aecood
medical discbarge." He already had one
medical discharge from the Navy for prewar injuries in aD aircraft carrier fire on
the USS Ra.r:cer.
. "But to get me and Paul to the United
Stales.," sbesaid, " be rejoiDed the Navybeaaid that was the futeet way."
Winner of the Purple Heart with three
cI.~. PbilippiDel defense ribbon, and
Presidential citation with two clUiten,
Anoel Rusaell got bls thlnI medical
dilcbarge in AugtDt 1!M5. His family
anived from Auatralia the next mooth,
and in December, 1!M5 RuaaelI joined the
Cincimati PoUce.
ilia Purple Heart Iud< (and bls counl">
held His injuries in the liDe d. duty made
him known as Cfndnnati's "molt bat·
tered" policeman.
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At the lint TbanUllving 00...... alter
, the war, be saved twocbildreo from being
cruabed under the wbeeia d. a at.reetcar,
but was badly burt by the car himself.
Another time, be was knocked flat when
he confronted two psoliDe thieves and
their loot blew up, but be made the arrest
of the thieves.
"In a stake-out at the Public Landing, he
was run down between two cars while
apprehending a blackmailer," Mrs.
Russell said. As a result, in 1971 , after 25
years, be retired because of the spinal
injury, fearful that impaired reaction
might jeo~ the lives d. other policemen.
In spite of his physical (nblems, "We
had a wonderful life together," his wife
said. She is now an American citizen.
lookiqJ forward to. visit from ber sista',
" this next Christmas."
A mall d. christian bwia1 was at 10:30
a.m. Wednesday, July 19 at St Vlncent
Ferrer Church in Kenwood, Ohio.
Mr. Ruasel.I was paat exalted ruler of the
8eDevoiett and Protective Order of Elks
Lodge 5, a member d. the American
Legion Poat 630 and the Fraternal Order d.
Poll""
JAC" BROOKS
Paaaed
Jaa. ~W . Brooks
away sept. 22,
um. He was a P .O.W. d. the Japaoese for
31k years. He died with heart disease,
nerves and atomach, he was 61 years old.
Jack was in prison campa at Cabanatuan,
camp l r Billbld and Hirobata, Japan. He
had to wort in the Seiatetsui Steel mill on
Honshu Island, Japan.
Jack was married to Juanita, they had6
children, 3 boys and 3 girls. He worked for
the U.S. Corps of Engineers f. many
years, but was forced to retire early
because of the torture stress of beatinp
and starvation, the result of beirW a prj.
sonerd.theJ~ps.
I waa with Jack in aU these prison camps
and we were very close blood brother
buddies here at home in Muskogee, Okla.
Sincerely Yours,
ElvinG. Williams
Rt. 3 Box 353-C
Muskogee, Okla. 74401
JOHNG.ROY
Sad to relate, my dear husband, John C.
Roy, passed away on January 6th, 11m, in
the West Jersey H08pital at the ale d. 78.
After yean of suffering - survivOl' d. that
awful Death March aDd 31k years of prisco
camp, be is atlaa\, at biI deserved rest
He was a wooderfW huaband, never
complaining - always bad a laUlh and a
joke - 80, needless to tell you that I miss
him aotenibIy.
He always looked forward to and enjoyed "'Ibe Quan" . He said it is always so
lnCormative.
Good luck and lood health for all in 1979.
Sincerely yours,
Margaret M. Roy
(Mrs·J9bnC.)
G. W. MARSHALL
On January i my htBband, Gresory W.
(ChieO Marshall died of cancer d. the
liver. He had aurgery for cancer on the
rilbt ahoulder ChriItmaa 1m;. Tbeo in
Marcb 1m the cancer d. the liver wu
found. He was 57 years old wben be died.
He was captured on BataaD, survived the
infamous Death March, and eOOed. bia 31k
years eonfiDemellt in camp Um.l.nI Machi
d1_.,.,.,.
DurinK
the Korea cOllflict GtelOQ'
joined the Air Force. He was promoted
throuIb the ranD, and retired after 2S
years aervice, a Major. He lived in SeatUe,
Wub.
Sincerely,
AnneM. MarabaU
(Mn. G.W. ManbalD
GLEN MILTON
Glen Milton, a member d. our Florida
Chapter paaaed away 00 September 50,
1918. He resided in Jackaooville, Fla. and
is survived by biI wife and jmmediate
family.
Sincerely,
John Aldrich
WM.EDWARDS
William Edwards 58, a Bataan Veteran
member of tbe 803rd Engineel"l passed
away In late August from a heart aUick.
Bill waa a 100 perceot disabled veteran
woo had auffered bel.rt aura:ery and a pace
maker installed. He retired from the Air
Force in 19&0 after m years d. service.
After the March ofBataan hewaa at Camp
O'DonneI, Camp Cabatauaan and Hiro
Hata Japan. He waa interned in a rural
church cemetery. Memben of the Florida
Chapter acted as Pall Bearel"l and full
military honors were bestowed. upon him.
AdeUa E . Baggett, a DefeDderette from
the Florida Chapter paaaed away in late
August. Sbe is survived by her buaband, A.
T, Balletl Dell waa interned in Lakeland,
Fla. Members d. the FbidaCbap\erwere
Pan Bearers.
CLIFFORD C. HINES
(RETIRED) 86th FA(PS) died in his sleep
of a heart attack on Jan. IS, 1979, in
Oklahoma City, Okla. He will be buried in
the NaUonal Cemetery there 00 Jan. 18,
1979, with full military honors. He is
survived by bia wile, Mrs. Ruth Hines, 5412
StonewaU Drive, Oklahoma City, Okla.
73111, wbo bas requested that anyone
desiring to aeod a memorial, please send it
to the HEART ASSOCIATION, in Cliff's
memory.
EDWARD JONES LILLY
5080akrid(le Ave.P .O. Box 3002
Fayetteville, North Carolina 28305
Died - December 1978 - Detalla I do not
know
Served with the P.S. aa Commander
Officer d. the 57Inf. He was 85 yean old
He WU in prison campi in Tallie, Shira·
kawa, KerelJDO Cheng, Chiab.m, Mukden.
Survived by his wife Victoria.
MARCH, 1t7a.....5
JAMES D. CANTWELL. NaUona] Commander
American De£enders orBatun and Corregidor
12329 Regency Avenue, Seminole. FL 33M2
Dear Commander:
On February 12, 1979, a meeting of a Team of five men assigned to implement the
provisions of Public Law 95-479 and members of various former Prisoner 0{ War related
groups was held in the conference rooms of the Veterans Administration building in San
Diego. Mr. Ray Wilburn headed the Team and announced they were in San Diego at the
express direction and wish of Mr. Max Clelland, Administrator of the Veterans AdminisLration. He also explained their mission in some detail and stated they would parallel the
provisions of P.L. 95-'179 as outlined in the February 1979 issue of THE QUAN.
Prominent at this meeting were Stan Sommers. Chairman, Med-Research, Dr_Lew
Hastings (PhD), National Service Officer and Harold Page, International Coordinator,
all of the Amer;can Ex-Prisoners of War. Also Captain Spaulding of the Vietnam Era
Prisoners of War Health Research Center, San Diego, Doctor Tom Hewlett, (Col-Ret)
wbowas a prisoner of war in Japan, Dr. Chuck Stenger (PhD) of the Veterans Administration Central, Washington, D.C .• Arthur A. Bress!, Special Projects Officer, American
Oelenders ofBawn and Corregidor, Mel Madero, Past National Commander, Ex-POW,
and loc.a1 representatives of the Veterans Administration Medical Center or San mego.
Art Bressi read a Jftpllred speecb; copies were passed to each person present. Dr.
Hewlett gave a run-down of his experiences in prison camps and he voiced his opinion
concerning those responsible individuals within the V.A. who claimed some of our ailments were reversible and he contended if what they claimed was so why didn' t they
either cure or r everse such ailments? Captain Spaulding spoke on studies conducted by
his research center and, interestedly enough, he claimed such studies should have been
conducted concerning us. He will make available to the Team all studies and findings
and his most important contribution will be a Bibliography of over 1,500 references. Our
own bibliography contains Jess than 200 refeteDc.e5.
There is no question as to the sincerity of the Team. Generally speaking, they are
young wt eager to do a good job. They ex}X'essed a reservation that to do the best job
possible their earliest indicators was they may need more time that the I February 19110
deadline specified in P.L. 95-479. The Meeting convened at 1:30 P.M. and ended shortly
before 5:00 P .M. General concensus was the meeting was both fruitful and quite encouraging at this poinl
HEARINGS ON PUBLIC LAW 95-479
STATEMENT OF ARTHUR A . BRESSJ, PAST NATIONAL COMMANDER AND
PRESENT SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICER OF THE AMERICAN DEFENDERS OF
SATUN AND CORREGlDOR, INC.
How do you do. I am ArtOOt A. Bressi, Past National Commander and present
Special Projects Officer 01 the American Defenders of8ataan and Corregidor, Inc.
I convey to each of you Greetings from ourNational Commander, James D. Cantwell
who has instructed me to tell you of his very deep interest in these proceedings and that
be wishes everyone present benefits from this get-together. It is also his desire we reDder
every coopera tion to the Veterans Administration in complyingwitb Public Law95-479.
In attempting to help you with your project, we feel it is necessary that you understand fully the plight ol the former prisoner of war who was captured in the Far East and
held prisoner under the Japanese. Like you, we too suffer from total input but we can
give you facts on one hand and estimates on the other. For instance, insofar as estimates
are concerned, there never has been exact figures on how many Americans were captured by the Japanese. Wecanc.ome upwith an exact figure, based on theNovember 1941
payrolls as to bow many drew pay for the month ci November but somewhere along the
way, we just cannot account for the number taken prisoner. The Veterans Administration does not know; the Deparbnent of Defense does not know. Based on known
figures , we can tell you that our overallloeses, due to combat and deaths during i.neaJ'.
ceration exceeded sa percent and It is safe to assume it really is higher. For you historians who try to maintain more exact figures, these IOIIIM!S were exceeded only by the
prisoner of war statistics ct the Kcrean War-and, at that, only by one percenl
We are oot here to air Individual com- became marked or wbether long usage
plaints ; there just would not be enough caused a change, when a new jadtetcover
time for such a project. IDStead, let us
became necessary, the "Project" inpresent out problems because, in soI.ving dieators were not transferred to the DeW
them you will naturaUy come by very
file. This was not really so important an
important information to aid in an overall item because, aloog with that same
study as directed by Public LawQl5.479.
passage of time, the Doctors then onStaff
At nne time the Veterans Administration duty and wbolmew about priaonenti.war,
used. an IdenWicaUon system on file especially ci World War II, were coming
jackets whicb clearly showed that the
into retirement age and leaving the
Veterans AdminialraUoo. With their
Veteran was a prisoner of war and. the
jacket carried blocks showing be was
retirement went our chances for physical
Project "J" for Japanese, Project " G" for examinations which were in conformance
German and later, Project " K" for with your adjuclation proceduree manual,
Korean. Whether because these jackets M2H. For the present day Doctor to
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comply fully with those procedures
requires an almost totally new education
and, GenUemen, It just ain' t in the cards;
they not only have more thanenougb to do,
someone at your Topside added further
worries to our plight by putting afreezeon
job slot and in fact, you are depleting your
On Board count tbrougb normal attrition.
It is not an exaggeration on our part
when we tell you that during the course 01
an examination the Veteran mentions he
was a former }X'iaoner of war. More out of
compassion than with any intent to comply
withM21-1, the Doctor asks: " Wberewere
ynu captured?" Our lad answers :
"Bataan." The Doctor queries: " Oh yeah,
where is Bataan?" You see, the problem
bas already complicated itself in that bow
do you look beyond for ailments when you
have no Idea as to the background of Its
origination?
We will furnish you with bibliography,
all of which is intended to point you in the
directioo yoo would determine for yourself; the only difference is that we have
such bibliography and we will save you
literally thousands of man bouts in
research. No we need not contend, we need
not insist, we need not amplify 00 the
multiplicity ol problems which are the lot
of a former prisoner of war of the
Japanese. No less than so august a body as
the National Academy ci Sciences conducted two studies related priSOl'len ol
war and we will be bappy to present their
findings to you. We will also provide you ~
with a Monograph which was the result of •
a directive by the Surgeon GENERALand
which was starUingly revealing in Its
findings. The total bibliography contained
in these documents will form an ineseapable conclusion and that is that the Fonner
}X'isoner of war under the Japanese did
indeed lead a life of such horrendous proportions even the application of the wildest
imagination can place it in proper perspective.
The total fatality figures of the Burma
railroad, one Britisher for every tie laid
staggers the mind and, let me assure, life
for the rest of us was DO bowl of cherries in
comparison.
In addition to the normal daily routine 01
being beaten, starved and overworked
under an enemy wbo freely acknowledged
be did not, let me repeat, did not s~ the
Geneva Convention Treaty ol 1929, he
denied us proper quarters, he denied us
proper c.lothing and he denied us medicine.
These constitute problems? Well, let me
add another factor . Beyond every shadow
of doubt, we were prisooen ofwarundera
pbiloaophy totally alien to out way ci life
and the result was our lives on a daily
basis were in the bauds 01 very erratic
guards who literally and ablo1uteJy held
the power ollife and death oYer us. Do ynu
wish to entertain traumal Then, pJease
accept at face value that we lived with
trauma for every stinking day we wen
prisoners of war under the Japanese. It is
any wonder that the overwhelming
4
f
~
,
majority of us who draw compensation are
rated most highly on nerves?
One solution would be that you would re-.
invoke the provisions of your M21-1. We
would respectfully request you review
Public Law 91-37& fcc redirection and that
you would respect its intent - that every
doubt be resolved in favor of this former
Japanese prisoner of war. We would
bumbly ask that you again review the
findings of Public Law 83-744 - and.
please permit an observation, I doubt that
any of you here present today is CODversant with its provlsions. This is oot an
admonishment. it is a fact that you jllJt
don't have the manpower to be everywhere at one time. We have been disappointed - for thirty-five years we have
attempted to make our plight known; we
just could not find the willing, cooperative
ear for our complaints. We believe, everso
sincerely, that this will prove to be educational for you and we can only thank you
for this opportunity to bring these matters
to your attention.
A second Meeting, in the fann of a
Seminar, was conducted at the OUic:er's
Open Mess, Miramar Naval Air Station,
San Diego. at 7:00 P ,M. on 13 February
1m. In adctition to those aforementioned,
this meeting was attended by Regional
Representatives of the Veterans Ad.miniJo.
lration and Medical Staff Physicians of the
local Medical Genter. Although Stan
SOMMERS stated he would prefer ques_ tions in general it soon came evident that
those former POWs present (estimated at
75 to 85) came to air personal complaints
and dis-satisfactioo with the V.A.
The Regional Adjudication Boards
Representative attempted to convey their
feelings as they examined claims cases.
He emphasized how much time th~ put
into such cases and haw they strived to
resolve findings in favor of the former
prisoner of war. In spite of his emphasis,
his remarks were not at aU well received
and it was very obvious he struck sour
notes because ol his insistence of "staying
within those provisions as provided by
law. "
The mood among those former prisoners
. of war in the audieoce was that of disgruntlement and general dis-satisfactiOll.
with individual treatment as well as
Wlhappiness with claims results. 'Ibere
was an undercurrent which threatened to
erupt in open hostility al each former
POW stated wby he was unhappy with his
particular es:perience witb the Veterans
Administration. It was obvious the POW
came to air a complaint and be did so. It
was also obvious thoee woo f'eP.l't6flD1ed
the Veterans Administration were very
surprised. at the open attitude tossed at
~ them.
,
What did emerge from this Seminar was
that the former POW felt the V.A was not
~xtending itaelf, as was cootended, to.,...
JUdgment favorable to the POW and that,
in fact, quite the contrary was true. It was
obvio1» this group of Adjudicators worked
only within the exacting letter of the law
and the exact letter of the law does not
permit individual judgment to prevail. A
contradiction surfaced. On onehand It was
claimed they spend much time and effort
in an attempt to adjudicate in favor of the
former POW ; on the other they added
" within pl'ovisions as provided by law." As
former prisoners of war we can safely
presume this conditioo is universal within
the entire structure 01. the Veterans
Administration.
An inescapable fact became evident:
Our Congressmen wbo make the law
within which the V.A. operates must be
informed of a gross injustice which results
from semantics and intent AlmOlt without
exception every time legislatioo concerning former POWs is being formulated,
someone among our Congressmen recognizes the potential benefits of the law.
Invariably during hearings these same
Coogr~men
exhort the Veteram
Administration "to apply these laws in a
liberal fashion. " Their intent is based on
compassion for the former prisoner.
However, in the literal translation and
application of that same law, the intent
never surfaced. The Congressmen a~
parently are not aware of the gap between
intent andappUcaUon.
Had either or both PubUcLaw83-744 and
Public Law 91-316 been exercised on
" Intent" our problems would be c~
siderably less if oot a problem at aU.
Instead, both laws were applied within
strict interpretation of coldly stated provisions which precluded the compassion
intended.
My conclusions are that no amount of
pleading for understanding ci the horrors
of prison camps whicb were ours will
receive the compassion of understanding
soneces&ary in tbe absence ol records. WE
MUST EITHER CHANGE 11IE LAW OR
MAKE OUR CONGRESSMEN AWARE
OF THE DISPARAGEMENT BETWEEN
INTENT AND APPUCATION OF THE
LAWS. We must come up with guidelines
for our membership to follow and we m~t
embark (1[1 a wriUng campaign to remedy
the situation which bas plagued. us to date •
We must furnish our membership with the
names and addresses of Members of
Congress as well as the United States
Senate wbo are memben of the Veterans
Affairs Committees. We must prevail on
our membership the importance
seeking equal justice for every one of our
POWs who suffered thoee trials and
tribulations wbicb were our lot under a
relentlessJapanesecaptor.
It is not too late, Commander, and, if
necessary, we must go out with a special
Edition of THE QUAN to notify our memberabip of the importance of this missioo.
While we are at it. we sbould also impress
our membership to write urging IUpport.
for the Dental Provisions contained in
Senate Bill Number 7. 'Ibis Bill will ~
vide dental care for any former prisoner of
war who was incarcerated for six months
«
or more or who is totally disabled.
The American Defenders of Bataan and
Corregidor must go on record supporting
such expendHtaes as become necessary to
secure favorable legislatioo on bebaH of
former prisoners of war. It may be necessary for someone to represent us during
such hearings as are generated by'Public
Law 95-479 and it behooves us to "stay on
top" of any progress (or lack) in the
future.
In closing, I wish to add this Seminar
portion ended at 10:00 P.M. but individual
consultations and problem solving did not
terminate until past 11:30 P.M.
Sincerely,
ARTHUR A. BRESSI
Special Projects Officer
OTIS EPHRAIM RADCLIFF
Portsmouth, VA Otis Ephraim
Radcliff, 61, a native of Scotland Neck,
N.C., died November 1B, 1978 in a hospital
after suffering a heart attack.
Otis was in the 28th Bomb Sqd., 19th
Bomb Group, and spent 2% years in Japanese prison camps on Mindanao. He was
one of 82 survivors of the 750 man Lasang
detail which was lost when the Sbinyo
Maru was torpedoed September 7, 1944
near Zamboango.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, a son,
three daugbt.en, four grandchildren, a
brother and three sisters.
HANSON
General Robert T. Frederick formed the
Green Berets duriIC World War II special
forces.
The American Legion aUowt!d a new
post to be set up in San Diego, Calif. To
become a member of this post, the
requirements are set up as follows :
Only special forces peop1e and those who
earned the Combat Infantry Badge, are
eligible.
'Ibis post wears the beret colors; the
American Legloo Blue, the uniform is the
camoOauged fatigue. It is impresaive.
Col "Habenero" Hanson USAFFEN.L., a member r1 theA.D.B.C., wugiven
a life membership, a gold card by the posl
Col. "Habenero" is very. active in military organizations.
•
Past Commander Leyte Poat No. 625,
three times.
Past President Offlllpino American
Veterans.
' ..
Past Commander Leglon of Honor.
Memberof40and8.
Life Member of Infantry Badge Post.
Life Member A.D.B.C.
Col. "Habeoero" Hanson was DOt a
P .O.W. but wasC.O. the Nortber'D Luzon
Guerrillas known as the Avereen.
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MARCH, 117t-1
National Commander James Cantwell asked Special Project Officer Arthur A. Bresd to formulate a letter for our members to wn'le to their Congressman and Senators. Art has c ollected many
goop ideas to use in le{le,.s. We hope you make use of them. The most important thing you can do
today is to wn'te your letter tod~y .
It has long been the claim of the V.A. that when we go
to a V.A. facility for treatment they "look for diseases
peculiar to the POW even when that POW doesn't
complain of such diseases or ailments." If this is so, how
many times has this happened? To Whom? When has the
V.A. \'oluntarily asked you, a POW, to submit for a
complete physical so they could identify all the ailments
we know are associated with prison camps? Does the V.A.
in your area really have the type specialists to diagnose
and treat properly ailments peculiar to POWs? We
honestly believe VA Hospitals and Out-patient Oinics are
doing the best job they know how and we really cannot
bitch about the treatment die} tty to give us. Yet, when
you know their own Procedures Manual 21-1 spells out,
step by step, how the former POW should be examined
and you know' they do not, it leaves something to be desired. Ob, they will do it but you got to let them know you
want it done according to the book.
In every bit of legislation concerning former prisoners
of war, our Congressmen have always expressed compassion and understanding. During the HEARINGS, our
Congressmen always make a statement they ''''''ant the
V.A. to apply these laws as liberally as possible" but there
seems to be little evidence to show these expressions are
acknowledged. We must impress our Congressmen that
somewhere along the procedures of enacting a Public
Law, something is left out and that somethiDg is generally
the result of extensive hearings which contributed to
enacting that specific law. The law itself, in too many instances, is cold and very impersonal and it does not contain the INTENT. Entirely too many of our former prisoners of war have suffered because the intent was not
included when the law was disseminated to lower levels
for implementation.
We now have an opportunity to do somethiDg for
former prisoners of war; more importantly, for the lesser
fortUnate among our numbers. Please, because you may
have 100 per cent, do not let down those who have less.
The American Defenders of Bataan and ColTegidor
believe every prisoner of war of the Japanese deServes and
has earned no less than 100 per cent. Much of the pain,
anxiety and suffering of Japanese EI-Prisoners of War
would be alleviated if and when the Veterans Admini·
stration recognizes the fact we did not ask for what hap·
pened to 'us and that, given a choice, we would ha\'e
elected death in combat to hen in a prison camp.
Don't let up! Don't quit after writing only one
CONGRESSMAN, let other Congressmen know bow you
feel. Perhaps your local Congressman is not on the
Veterans Affairs Committee - write him anyway - let
bim know bow you feel. Let your Veterans Organization
know how you feel; we can always use their support. At
this stage in life it is difficqlt to conceive one POW is less
deserving than another: let's give this our best shot -let's
aU of us take time to write.
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HOUSE VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMl'ITEE
Note: Room numbers with 3 digits are in the Cannon
House Office Building ; 4 digits beginning with I are in the
Longworth House Office Building; and 4 digits beginning
with 2 . are in the Rayburn House Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20515.
. . .. ... 2184
Ray ROBERTS (D-TeI) Chairman
David E. SATIERFIELD (D-V A) ................. 2348
Dan EDWARDS (D-Calif) ................... . . : .2329
G.V. Sonny MONTGOMERY (D-Mi,,) ............ 2367
Lester L. WOLFF (D.N.Y.) ................ , ...... 2463
Jack Brinkley (D·Ga) . . .
. . . ..... . .... 2412
Ronald M. MATTE (D'()hio) .. . .. . ...... , ........... .
W. G. (Bill)HEI'NER (D-N.C.) . ... ... . . .......... . 328
Edward BEARD (D-R.I.) ..... . .. . .. . ... . ......... 131
Robert W. Edgar (D·PA) ............ . . . • • . ... . . . .. 4ff1
Sam B. HALL, Jr. (D-Tn) ..... . ... . . . .... . . . ... . .. 3U!
George E. DANIELSON D-Calif) ...... . . . ........ 2202
Douglas APPLEGATE (D'()hio) ... . . . ... .. • . ...... 435
William Hill BONER (D-Tenn) ...... . .. ... . . . . . . . . 118
Richud C. SHELBY (D-Ala) .. .. .. . .. .. ..
.. .. 1408
Don MICA (D-Pla) . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. 512
Tony COELHO (D-Calif) ............... .. ... . . . . . 216
John Paul HAMMERSCHMIDT (R-Ark) .... . . . . . . . 2160
MMg...t M. HECKLER (R-M... ) ....... .. .. . . . . . . 2312 I
Chalmers P. WYLIE (R'()hio) ................ . . . . 2335
James ABDNOR (R-S.D.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 1224
Elwood HILUS (R-Ind) .... . . . .. . .. . . . .... . ..... 2429
Tennyson GUYER {R'()hio} . . . .. . ....... . ~ . . . .... 114
George HANSEN (R-ldaho) ... . .. . .... . . . ........ 1125
Harold S. SAWYER (R-Mich) . . .... • .... . .. . . . . . .. 123
Wayne GRISHMA (R-Calif) ........ , .... . .. . . . ... . 511
Joel DECKARD (R-Ind) ........... . .. .. I • . . . . . . . . S07
Gary LEE (R-N.Y.) . . ... . ....... .... ... . ........ . 513
Marvin LEATH (D-TeI) ..... . .....•.... I • • • • . . •. 1331
Phil GRAMM (D-T•• ) . . .. . .................... . 1609
Tony P. Hall (D.()hio) . . . . . . . . .
. .... . \ . ..... 1009
Thomas A. DASCHLE (DoS.D.) .. . .. .. . ... . • ....... 510
SENATE VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMl'ITEE
Note: Room number and Building not readily available
at this writing. However, Address mail to the
HONORABLE (Name), The United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510.
Alan CRANSTON (D-Calif) Chairman
Herman E. TALMADGE (D-Ga)
Jennings RANDOLPH (D-WVa)
Richud (Dick) STONE (D-Pla)
John A. DURKIN (D-n:H.)
Spark M. MATSUNAGA (D-Hawaii)
RobertT_ STAFFORD (R-Vt)
Strom THURMOND (R-S.C.)
Alan SIMPSON (R-Wyo)
G",don 1. HUMPIIREY (R-N.H)
PUBLIC LAW 95-479 AND
THE FORMER PRISONER OF WAR
Public Law 95·479 got off the ground on 28 October
1978 after President Jimmy Carter signed it into law. It
directed the Veterans Administration to study repatria·
tion procedures, physical examinations, the adequacy of
such procedures and resultant medical records; types and
severity of disabilities in various theaters at various times;
a description and analysis of procedures in determining
eligibility for health care benefits, in adjudicating claims
and an analysis of current use of statutory and regulatory
provisic ns specifically related to Cormer POWs, and; a
survey and analysis of medical Iiteratmc on the healthrelated problems of former POWs. Although Dot formerly
included in this study the V.A. will additionally check
programs for former prisoners of war of governments
allied with the United States.
This STUDY is to be submitted to the Congress and 10
the President not later than I Pebruary 1980, and is to
include recommendations for sucb administrative and
legislative action as the (V A) Administrator considers to
be necessary to assure that former prisoners or war
receive compensation and bealth~are benefits for aU
disabilities wbich may reasonably be attributed to his
internment.
What part will we, as former prisoners of war, and our
families play during implementation of this Public Law?
Unquestionably ODe of the most important in our lives. It
was June 1970 when last we testified on bebaU of a Bill
which was to benefit us - Public Law 91-376 which, more
often than not, was abused rather than used on our bebaH.
We cannot afford to wait another nine years for something
beneficial to occur.
What we of the American Defenders of Bataan and
Corregidor must do is take time to write our Senators and
Congressmen to teD them of the importance of Public Law
95-479 and how its fmdings will show POWs are not beina
adjudicated fairly and the V.A. is not proviCting the
specialized treatment POWs really need. We must impress
those Lawmakers who represent us that in spite of their
admonition to the V.A . "to apply these laws liberally" the
V.A. in fact still places the burden of proof on the former
prisoner of war. Adjudicators not familiar with the
, provisions of both Public Law 83-744 and Public Law 91 376 and the Three Major Studies of former Prisoners of
War continued to pass judgment on Claims for total disability. The Three Major Studies certainly left no room for
doubt as to the circumstances of prisoners of war and
made clear the horrors, sufferings, privations and
degradations which were our Jot. Both Public Laws also
illuminate diseases and sicknesses contracted by us in
prison camps but if the Adjudicator does not know the
background which went into Law, that Law most often is
interpreted without the liberality intended by our lawmakers .
All of our ADB&C Membership, including our wives
- and the husbands of our Nurses - must write not only
to those Congressmen where we live but especially so to
Congressmen Ray Roberts and Sonny Montgomery and to
Senators Alan Cranston and Herman Talmadge. It
wouldn't hurt to make an extra copy addte.ed to Mr.
Max Oeland, Administrator of the Veterans Administration.
t
Wbat should go into your letter? To begin, please do
not make a "form letter" to be distributed and signed by
others. Make it personal and aU you need do is stay with
the truth. What you can include, in addition to your own
intimate knowledge. would be an opening statement of
your general state of health in our Pre-W.orld War n Mili·
tary Service. It is a fact that those on Bataan were forced
on a half ration on 5 January 1942 and suffered at least
four or five more cuts before the surrender. Beri-beri (the
dry type) made its appearance as early as February 1942
when the guys started complaining of ''hot feet" and, as we
now know. dry beri-beri starts when the vitamin content in
our food is not adequate. Most of us still have dry beri·beri
but today it bas a more sophisticated name of peripheral
neuropathy. Somebody at the V.A. said dry beri-beri is
reversible - if so, why haven't they cured -it? We also
know tbat dry beri-beri is not localized but that you get it
to one degree or another in aU parts of the body; witness
how many of us have died from beri-beri of the heart.
Optic atrophy was another ailmeot due directly to malnutrition. Many of us temporarily lost the use of one or
both eyes. Even today there are those of us who cannot
stand glare, brigbt sunshine or the sun's rays reflecting oU
chrome and a very concerned majority of us would rather
not drive at nigbt because of our eyes - aU the result of
prison camps.
Then there are those 01 us who had either malaria or
dengue fever or both. You will still get an argument as to
whicb was worse. Temperatures of 105 degrees with
malaria were common and even higher temperatures were
recorded with dengue fever. Who needs to be reminded of
the aching body which accompanied chills and fever?
Who will ever forget bow hard our buddies worked to try
to keep us wrapped and covered during a bout? Who can
claim dUpclllatioo from diarrhea or dysentery? Who will
pass judgment as to wbether bacillary dysentery was
worse than amoebic dysentery? Both took their toll and
both bad homble endings for those who did not make it.
Who was spared scurvy or pellagra? Scurvy resulted
when Vitamin C was absent and peDegra manifested itself
when the B-vitamins were lacking. Remember the sores in
the mouth becaUIC of scurvy? Rice and whistle-weed IOUp
never did contain anything but starch and water. Remember bow the body, in its weakened condition, developed
"Guam blisters" and how these sores refused to heal?
Is there any way we can measure the slappings,
beatings, club-rapping and riOebutts expended on us by
sucb nuts as "Donald Duck" and "'Dis Speedo" not to
mention psychopaths like the "White Angel" or Nichols
Field? Who, among us, did not have a favorite Nip we'd
like to kill, absolutely without coascience, and feel we did
the world a favor? Men totaUy devoid of compassion, men
with a minus for an I.Q" men without a brain in their
head, were placed in cbarge of us and they never besitated
to apply punishment - more times than not just to "keep
in practice." Our laws prohibit "cruel and unusual punishment"but the Japanese seemed to thrive on laying it on us.
Ob yes, we were aware the Japanese never signed the 1929
Geneva Conventions Treaty - but deliberate violation?
A goodly number of us were rated 10 per cent on
"anxiety reaction." Amiety reaction my footl We were
MARCH. It:......
victims of traumatic neurosis from day One to Liberation.
At aU times our lives ....ere in the hands of an erratic idiot
who never was given the privilege to think for himself. His
way of life was totaDy foreign to our system of justice and
behavior and our life was a continuation of uncertainty as
to whether or not we might see tbe neIl day. Our lives
were controUed by imbeciles who could take that life and
justify that murder without recourse.
Don't forget how we were forced to work many, many
times on war-related work and how we did it on substandard ratioos. There is plenty evidence to sbow our
work day average intake did not exceed 900 calories. Do
you know Uncle Sam worries if his combat IOldien get
less than 4,200 calories a day? And we did it for thirty-nine
and a baU 'months - those on Bataan even longer? U
someone at tbe V.A. might question u to how you did it,
let him know a club in the hands of a Jap guard hu a lot of
vitamins - even more in a rifle butt. You might mention
bow Jap "Hancbos" harassed us without end with their
constant screaming to speed-up the work. You might even
throw in how, when we got sick and couldn't work, they
cut our rations even further. As a final kicker you might
even include how, wben the Red Cross boxes arrived, we
never did set what was aUocated to us.
QUANS RETURN
G.B. Gilbert
ITnPeoria Sl, No. 103
Aurora, Colo. 80010
PierreB. Joice
51033Rold
Clifton, Colo. 81520
Elial Gec:qe Boatride
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21SMoatroeeSt
Philadelphia, ?a. 11141.
Francis M. Corlial
150 Coleman Avenue
MenloPark, Calif. 94025
J...phQ. JoImsoo
P.O. Box 1_
Mountain View, Calif. M040
Loyd C. Kisner
'JJ11 SberwoodDr.
Hot Sprtnp, Art. 7190.
'Names and Addreuel of Army Nunes
who were in Philippine Islands 7 Dec. 1942.
1. PbylllsArooJd.Mn.BruceAdams-Tl
BroadSl, Guilford, ConD. ....,
2. Ear1een ADen Franda - 14 Pulield
Part Place, Spriq&fleld, DL,"'"
3. Louise ADIchicka Pnad.'H~Mn.
Ell - 5& Pierce St, San Francisco,
CA. 94117
4. Ruby G. BracDey - 3)()1 N. Weatmoreland St, Fan. ctJJrch, Virginia
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Drive, Houat.oo, Tuu T1OlII3
20. Dorcaa Euterlina: KeUy - 3130
Gra)'lOn, DaUu, Tex.u 15Z24
21. Flcrmund FeUm~Mn. waUy DU·
22043
MinDle BreeaeSblbta-115Pinec::rst.
ford East 221. Girard Place;
No.1, SanAntmio, Texas 78D
Spoka", Wah. fIDl3
Hattie Brantley - P .O. Boz. 478, Jef·
22. Adele Foreman - lSI Brettoawood
Drive, San Antonio, Texaa'18:l18
fenon, Texas 1:5157
Clara Mle Bickford Bilello - 1300 . 23. Eleaoor M. CareD - 3403 Capella
Poplar, Greenwood, Mia.,_
Drive, EIPuo, Texal 'MOl
SaUy Blane-Mrs. Millett - 1_ MI1eI,
24. Helen Gardener ROlIn. 1M!
Bou"Clty,La.,11112
Picardy Place, Winter Park, Fla. 32789
Myra V. Burria - ... Eapl.mode St.,
25. Leona G••tinaer-Mn. Herman SutKarDelClty, Teul1Il18
pblu - , .. QulIn ...... Prattville, Ala.
Bee· Cbamben - 801 447 Click Rt.,
26. Beulah
Greenwalt-Mrs.
Bruce
Llano, Texu 7884S
Wak:ber - 1835 Wli.te oat Drive;
Edith ec.n.Mn:. Howard P. Lloyd 1750 Grevella St., So. Puadena. CaW.
Menlo Pari<, CA. ""'"
81030 .•
'n. Gwendolyn HeosbI.w-Mn:. DoM1d
Heleo CualaDi-Mri. E.n. Nest« Deiu - 2151 Wannlandl Ave., VlIta.
VA._
Trooper Rd. No. I, Norristown, Pa.
28. Heleo HemI:_ey - .a5 E. Arb ...
DaroIheo DoIey E .... - P .O. 80> M,
Lane No. 111, ArUncton. Tau 71010
HamlItGft, Mo._
•• Vema HinIoD IUvely - 21130 1Ca_
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Susan DowrUtc Gallaat- - 4801
1I000000000atal DrIve, Richroond, VL
... Earlya BJadI·..... IIaft)' Hardloa851 Pueo Del Sur, Sada Fe, New
Bertha Dworaky Heodenoa - 31.22
Mexico 81S01
Oak KDOll Drive; Redwood City, CA.
31. Grace HaJlman..Mn. F.W. M.'.trio
- Apt., A.a, 3011 Porter, WkJIIta,
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Winter addreu - P.O. Box 538 Key
Colooy Beach, Florida 33051
11. Mildred Daltoo-Mn. Bruce Maminl
- 414 Oglethorpe, JacbonviUe, Fla.
32218
18. S.We P. Durrett·Mrs. Joe Farmer"Farmstead" Box 117, 'nwnton, Ohio
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I .....THE QVAN
Rev. OJ.nHealy
249IS Marion Ave.
Bronx58, N.Y. 10468
IrbyHayes
Route 4, Box 279K
Tampa, Fla. 331515
Mr. E.O. Elmore
22OPien:e
Del Relo, Tex. 79915
William F. Main
Vl1 S. Emplre Blvd., Sp. 30
Coos Bay, 0retoor1420
Howard E. Taylor
i885S. E . 222 Dr.
Gresham, Ore. 97030
William F . Medley
OdeUK. Balllo
1141Kirtlaod Aveooe
Nubvllle, TeDD. 37211
Mr. JobnWiaccup
Cut Trt. Court
21101 C8tTOilton Way Dr. P .O. Box 11l18l
New Oriealll. La. 70121
WUfredA. Gagnon
P .O.1ka: 214
Dtmedln, Fla......
Loyd Mulkey
4011 PlaiDview' Dr.
Loagvtew, Touo""'"
DON'T I.ET THE COI.ORS FADE
By Rev. Claude BlIDzei
Americans by the millions pledge their
allegiance to our Flag - cowUeas times
~ each year. We've been recl~ this glorious, 31-word Pledge for some 85 yeen. But
do we fully understand its meaning and
really discern its implicatka'!' Or Is it to
many of us just some kind of bigb-sounding
verbiage'!'
To know whether the Colors abiDe
brigbUy in our bearts, we need to reflect on
the history our Pkldge arw.t to penetrate
deeper meanings of the texl
Author of the Pledge 01 Allegiance was
Francis Bellamy. a Baptist minister in
LitUe FaUs, New York. The Pledge be
wrote was first used on October 21, 1882,
the 400th anniversary of Columbus'
discovery ol America. It has been recited
from that day to this with some changes,
the moat signilicant being addition of the
words "W'lder God" on JWle 14, 1954. Now
let's examine the text of thia pledge to our
Flag :
I Pled,e AUeglJ,Dce .. , 'lbat is, I
promise to be true. 'Ibis is an individual
«
responsibility. No one can pledge
'01' you ;
you cannot pledge for anyone el&e. By your
pledge you reaffirm your own persmal
good citizenship. 'Ibis makes the pledge a
form ol "loyalty oath." The wording
implies individualism. not collectivism. It
signifies national soverei&nty, not world
~ government It meaDS that wewill oot take
our freedom for IJ'8nted .. , and thLB risk
JOIlngit.
. . . to the Flail of tM Ual\ed States of
America . . . Our Flag is something
visible and tangible, representing our
country to its people and to the reat d. the
world A thoughtful mind sees not tbeFlag
only, but the nation ltaelf, ita principles, its
truths, its hiltory. The Flag becomes a
source of inspiration to those wbo see It
wave, a reminder of the citizen's pabiotic
duty. Here is the historic definition as laid
down by the Cootinental ColCI'eIS inlm :
" White signifies purity and inoocence.
Red: bardineu and valor. Brue : vilUance,
. perseverance and justice." ThoM: were
indeed the characteristics of America
during Colonial aDd Revolutionary daysl
... aDd \0 Ute ReplabUc far wltlcb It
. &a .... . . . Our United States Constitutioo
bas given us a Republican form of
govenmeDt .. dillUoct
frcm
a
Democracy.
Actually,
the
word
" democracy" does DOt appear once in any
of our documents of Liberty: the Declaration d. Independence, the Articles d.
Confederation, the Constitution, cr the Bill
ol Rights. What is the buic diHcrence
between a republic and a democracy? 1be
main difference pertalns to the form by
~ which the people are represeoted. In a
pure democracy I speak for myaelf, you
speak for yourself, 'Ibis can be possible
only in a lmall area with a relatively small
number d. people. When boundaries are
extended and numbers lncrt:ased, some
source of your right to life, liberty and
property - lor:*ing to a paternalistic State
form of representation becomes mandatory. This explains the term, Contlitu·
tional Republic.
. . • One NaUoB IlDdrer God . .. The
Founders of our Republic firmly believes
and openly proclaimed that man's basic
rights to life, liberty and JX'Operty are Godgiven rights, and DOt the grant of government Indeed, one of the mottos of the
American Revolution was " Rebellion to
tyrants is obedience to God."
Our Nation began as a government 01
Jaws, not of men. Moreover, God's Holy
Law, especially as embodied in the Ten
Commandments, forms the ultimate
foundation for all legitimate, man-made
Jaws. Our Constitution gives us a government limited to the delegated authority
that " We, the People" allotted to each
branch of civil Rovernment
. . bldJvlslble . . . As the American
Creed asserts, we are "a sovereign Nation
of many sovereign States." This political
combination is called theFederal Union. It
consists of the national Rovernment, the 50
state Rovernments, and the thousands 01
local governments chartered under those
ltate Rovernmentl. Within this Federal
Union we have the greatest diversity ...
it ill called " diversity in unity." It could be
destroyed and eud in totaUtarianiam, if the
Supreme Court and the national IOYernment C'IXltinue to erode the powers
reserved to the States
to the people
under the loth Amendment of the Bill 01
Rights.
. . . witlt Uberty aDd JDIUee ,_ aU •
Today the difference between liberty and
freedom is seldom recognized. Liberty is
personal and internal; freedom is external
and bas to do with society in Reneral.
"Liberty" was the biB word in our early
history. The Liberty Tree, the Liberty
Bell, Author ol Uberty, " Give me Uberty,
or give me death." Once you feei the lpirit
of liberty within yourself as an individual,
then you will want to do something to 1ft"
serve freedom in the society of which you
area part.
And what 01 " justice for aU"? Justice,
according to Noah Wet.ter, is " the virtue
which consists in giving to everyone what
is his due." 'IbII definition calls for both
law and equity. Laws are the rules we live
by day after day. Equityisfair play for all.
This explaiol the concept. that once
prevailed in America - punilbment to Ot
thecrim.e!
Doe" kt the eo.... fade! But you wil.I if
you neglect your own individual respo,.ibilltles.
Doe't kt dIIe eoIon fade! But you will if
you reject our republican form oIlOvernment for some form of mobocracy, lOClalism, fascism or commt.llliJm.
DoD" let the eo.... fade! But you will if
you sanctioo the S\lm!Dder ol OW' national
sovereignty to a world government
Don't let die colon fade! But you will if
you turn your back upoo God - the divine
am
instead
Don" let the eolon fade! But you will if
you abuse your own liberty or curtail the
liberty of others, or if you resort toany act
of injustice, or tolerate injustice on the
part of others.
Fblally, dOll" let the colon fade ill your
beart, because if you do, the country that
claims yOW'cltizenship will fade as well!
Quans returned marked deceased:
Vernon Snyder
Box"
Gratnola, Okla .
Eugene E. Laird
8052 Squirrel Hill Rd. S.E .
Salem, OR. 97302
Henry W. TunberR
Arthur, Iowa 51431
DOROTHY GLESSNER
Dorothy M. Brown, Jan. 31, 1979 of
Wi.lki.ns Twp., Pittsburgh, Pa. , wile of
Joseph M. Glessner; mother of Gecrgia
Andelmo, Carol Smart, Mary Lauer,
Joseph M. Jr., Jobo, Robert aDd William
P . Glessner ; daughter ol Mary Brown ;
silter of Betty Ofchinic:k and John T.
Brown; also nine grandcbildren. Mass 01
Christian Burial at Colman's R.C. ctuU'Ch
Sat at 12 noon.
DERRELL SHARP
Derrell Sharp died of bone cancer July
9th 1978. Derrelilived in Seattle, Wash.
PI ~a s t' re ad Art Bress i's report and li ug·
gesti\·t!; letter lo be lient to YOW" SenalOr.
and Cong r P.lis man. This may be our last
shot. lo help ounelve5 and OW" buddies. We
will hut!; sl-,vera) meetings on this subjet:t
In Miami.
Fred K. Ross, P .O. Box 64, Ticonderoga,
N.Y. 12883 iI confined at the Albany, N.Y.
VA Hoapital. U you remember Fred or if
you have time write Fred a card. Not a bad
idea to send a get well card to those in
hospUala.
MARCH, 1171-11
TIRED MARY IN
ST.LOUIS
We met them in Sl Looie, Looie
They were so nice and fair
I'll tell you who they were
In case you weren't there
We knew that things were going to be
heavenly when we met Father Bawnann
at the airport when we arrived there on
Wed. With him were Mary Curley (nursing
a cold) and Ken Curley Dursing their
luggage.
SoAwayWeGo
We were joined by My Mother Ann
Stumpf, for the festivities. (She has joined
us on numerous occasions for our get
togethers so ahe is not exactly a stranger
to the crowd) . Aloog with her was my
sister Evelyn wrote (You remember her
from the KallSas City convention)
That nite was quite a treat for me. Our
hospitality site was the old Starlite Roof of
Ute Chase. All the biggies used to perform
there. And you bad to have a biggie wallet
to get in there. So money-wise it was off
limits to us poor peasants. So here it was
again returnilll to its former glory Entertaining the Biggest and the Beat of
them all - the guys and gals of the
A.D.B.C.
Among the biggies there were : Peggy
Brennan (And you can't get any bigger or
better than tball That is heartwise - not
weight wise - even if she did say that they
bad to keep the makeup class overtime
because they were working on me.)
Madam Margie Hausmann and Herman
Hausmann aDd his new love ( his piano)
Lou Sachwald (without his Zola - shame,
shame) From our Long Time No See
Dept., Tony aDd Rose MarangieUo, Vinnie
and Millie Jesuele, they came early
becir.use they had to leave early. they said
when I spotted them in the lobby leaving,
that they had to leave to go to a wedding.
Funny - wonder how come they left in a
police car with the police carrying their
bags), also there at the St&rlite Roof were
Elias and Marie Batavia (their long
suffering friends) and Freddie Gombol
with his Mary G (She must be staying
away from the needle) and Ralph
Levenberg (I fcund out the secret to his
singing success. He used to sing with Ted
Weems) .
But wait a ml.oote - Where ia Enoe and
Stella (Gould-whoe1sel)
Maybe they will show up tomorrow (You
have to keep reading to fmd cut U they did.
Better than a soap opera isn't it?)
Chasing around the Chase, I spotted Bill
Galos, from Calif. Glenn and Martha
Milton ((rom the even sunnier spot,
Florida ), M.M. Amos, who comes to our
Ctll'Iventions most or the time - Met him
yean ago at the Cleveland convention.
Walt Straka {rom Minn., Dale Frawfrom
Ohio, BUI Snimo from Cal., and Dale and
Olive Minger from Iowa.
Caught outside the Chase (rather Foxy,
don't you think?) Bill King from Ariz. and
12-11IE QUAN
Harcourt Bull from Cal.
Meanwhile back at the ranch house or oil
how SUITE it was. Bill was entertaining
Blaaie Brennan (ON how to make Bud
wiser? ) and Bunny Fields who hopped up
[rom Kentucky to be with us all
But 1 have friends too. Besides, this was
homeco~ week for me. So it was of( to
lunch to a restuarant called Kemos where
I was treated to some or the best German
food I ever ate, by Geneva Dehn and Gene
Miller (who I used to work with at Brown
Shoe Company too many yean ago) and
Geneva's boyfriend HarTy Dickmann. So I
must have been doing something right
years ago. (Wonder what it was I ) Gene
Miller was Skinny Wainwright's driver
when he was in San Antonio. Nice coin-cidence isn' t it?
That nite Geneva and Harry added the
Icing to the cake by taking Bill, my
Mother, and I to a good Greek restaurant
to add to my CUlinary Country Cruising
(Try saying that after three drinks!) And
you thought that I had been living on a
doggy bag for three days.
That nite at the So Nice Seeing You
Again party we spotted :
Bea and Ben Saccone, Hyman Be~
stein, behaving himself 10 well this time
we hardly knew be was there, Art DiMeo
(The quiet one). Also at the party were
Florence and John Crago, Paul and Nicki
Reuter, Leroy and Cecelia Galbraith, Paul
(You All) Nagurney, John and Gertie
Hryn, Bob and Phyllis Baltzer, Norman
and Eva Christ (from John and Dot
Hasslen towD - Readi~, Pa.), Delbert
and Doris Lynn, and behind his ~ual big
grin Jose Gutierrez, and among the Nifty
Nurses wasn't It lovely to see lively, Verna
IUvely? And raising her usual HELL--O,
was the irrepressible Adele Foreman, also
helping to liven up the party were Art and
Judy Davis, and last but notleaat EnOl and
Stella Gould. (Enos Fla. sweat shirt read
- Caution - Highly Explosive - Who is
he trying to kid!) - U you want to know
what the sweat shirts that EnOl and Stella
brought us from Fla . read - you will just
have to come to the Miami Convention. }
While strolIing thru the Park (Palau)
Friday I met the following people along the
way : From the Calif. Crowd Shannon and
Dee Peterson. and Barney (Ob 00. Not
another one) Barnett, Coloradoians Roger
and Ella Montoya, that Conn. cutie Mary
Bosko (braving it without Nick), GenUeman from Ga . Carl Allen. Ed Sheehan
[rom Mus. and Pat Hltchock from Iowa.
Then Chasing thru the Chase got to meet
Stan (The Man ) Sommers - I have long
read and admired the work that be has
done compiling medical research about Ex
P ,O.W.'s ailmentB and residuals from
their imprisonment and treatment (or lack
of it) . Now if he could just get somed. the
big boys at the V.A. to do the same (with
an open mind - if any) we might get
somewhere. But I su~ the JrObl.em is
that if you face the truth, you have to do
something about It (End ofSpeechJ
Also had a chance for a hurried hi to Joe
Sterner, and Carmel Zipeto.
Pauline Cimini was minding the store
but where was AI Cimini? (Maybe he was
practicing his swimming - not at the
Chase - the pool was empty - but they
had water in the pool at the hotel that •
Toxie Nicholson was staying at. ) Toxie's
best gal ( His wife) hurt her leg and was
unable to attend the convention. Hurry up
and get well Honey so that you can make
Miami. Heah.
Also saw FrankleOePasuale (But where
were Mickey and Toni?) , and Dan
DeNobile.
Dan had sad, but maybe glad news about
Joan. She was going to be operated on
again (So please when you are taUr.ing to
the big man upstairs put in a few powa1ul
prayers for her will you? She bad been
missing (and missed) at too many of these
conventioos.
The Chase that day proved expensive fot
me, Alex Benishake talked me into getting
Bill a life membership. And they weren't
even on sale. Now Bill will just have to live
forever or we will loose money on the
dealJ .
And how about Anthony Smith bringing
his 1i1 ole heart back to another d. our
conventions from Roseville, Mich. Tony
had a heart attack (on his birthday) at our
AUantic City convention. Hang in there
Tony - next year Is Miami.
That afternoon we went with my sister
Evelyn White to see the S1. Louis arch.
Then we went to see Lt. Robert E. Lee •
(The riverboat - not the man) for a fast
food break and a fast ride back to the hotel
(accompanied by Torooado alerts) in time
for the Cocktail Capers.
While sipping my lone cocktail I saw in
the CocktaU Crowd : (When ycu sing the
Star Spangled Banner it really keeps you
in line), John and Martina Aldred, Phil
and Millie Arslanian, Harry and Sea
Menozzi, Nick Fryziuk, Richard Bedt (I
did not get a chance to taUr. about What's
new in Chicago with them - But I had a
chance to lee for myself, on a bip there in
Aug. It should be not what's new but what
is left of the old. All my loop hangouts,
have been knocked for a loop - with a
wrecking ball. Even my beloved Club
Ivanhoe was done in - Well 50 much for
tean - they dilute your drink you know.)
On with the Capers - Cdtail Courtesy
Corner : How lovely and solicitous were the
DuPonts (J .E . and Andrea). No not the
Delaware DuPonts - these DuPonts are
from Plaqueminela. Tbey bad a wealth of
courtesy - Saw to It that my mother had a
chair to rest herself and her cocktail. And
in that crowd - that wasn't easy.
Which reminds me I have a short
courtesy message for the Courtesy Comer.
Please keep on Ice. Don't keep the women
waltinl outBide the cocktail room until •
they get hot under thecollar.
But since I know you can't wait to get to
the banquet- ahan we leave'!
I was Informed by Lou Sachwald (cur
M.C.) that for a change I was going tobave
a mike when I sang The Star Spangled
Banner. I was so happy as 1 eyed the mike
stand pointed out as mine - all mine. But
the joy was short lived because as 1 walked
over to the mike stand, I realized that
there was a stand there - But No Mike.
Now 1 do not like to refer to him as Lou the
Liar - So I shall just think of himasSachwald the Slinker. Or could it be that the
gremlin who grabbed the ice, struck
•
again! ?
Now that's what I call singing for your
supper the hard way.
However there was a bright spot on the
boruon - It was oW' sparkling GOLD
STARS. Lura Brazeau and Betty Clogston
(See bottom of Quan Column). I was in·
formed that John and Gladys Cooke had
been to the convention earlier - but
Gladys' illness reared its ugly head again,
so she took it home. (When you get it home
this time Gladys tell it off - because I
know how you have been fighting with it.)
Among the Nifty Nurses present were:
•
•
Eunice (Hatchitt) Tyler , and the other
Eunice Young (We all are), Rosie
(Roiper) Meier, Doris Kehoe. Verna
(Henson) Hively, Leona (Gastinger)
Sutphin, Adele Foreman. and sporting a
Nifty new hair do - Madeline Ullom.
Our delightful banquet companions were:
From his Old Kentucky Home in Louieville
Bunny Fields, from the fun filled state of
Florida , Enos and SteLla Gould, Sl. Louie
Woman -My -Mother Ann Stumpf, who
must have had a fun time raising 4
charmin children, Verna Hely (one of
those charmin children and my older
sister) also shared our table, along with
debonair Dick Hely, her husband. After
dinner 1 was deliciously surprised by being
presented with a token of love accompanied by a beautiful speech by
Commaooer John Bennett, for my work,
(Having fun ). It was a beautiful coin
medallion with our logo on il I am sooo
proud of it that 1 wear it everywhere but in
thcshower.
But my cup runneth over - That nile
after dinner I was joined by my brother
Sonny Cox and his wife Margie, and my
nephew Tommy Cox and his wife Kathy
and my nephew Roger Hely and bis wife
Diane, and Bill Pfeiffer and his wile and
two sons, but wait there is more,
representing Brown Shoe Company
(where I worked oh 80 long ago) were
Erna Steveoer, Gene Miller, Geneva Dehn
and her boyfriend Harry Dickmann (You
met those three in a previous paragraph).
At an adjoining banquet table Peg
Brennan (See below) won the.door prize.
Sbe said that they were going to deduct the
medal that they gave me from my salary.
(Yeah but they are going to let me pay it
ort In installments - with only 20 per cent
interest). And Blacltie Brennan was
figuring how many beers Peggy's prize
would buy. Ben Stevens was there too but where was his $10 bill, you don' t
suppose Helen spent it do you? I don't
know Helen you had that satisfied look on
your face as you sat there.
Dancing Dons and Dolls banquet nile
were:
Georgia Peach Eunice Baggett (No she
was not dancing with her camera , she was
da ncing with a Gentleman from Georgia,
her hushe.nd Warren) Vic and Lula Belle
Mapes, John Ray and his Ray of Sunshine
Bertha, AI (Mr. Bataan) Senna and his
Hellion (Okay you see her your way - I'll
see her mine. Have you ever ridden on a
plane with her? ) (And afler Al gave up the
gambling, the way Georgia is playing I
think that he is sorry for Bill - doesn' t
want to take adventage of him because 0{
his disability. Too bad the V.A. doesn't{eeJ
the same way!) Bob and Nor Piper, Jerry
and Kay McDavitt. Nat and Camela
Romanzo, John and Delightful Delores
Bennett, and two kids from Charleston
who really can cut a rug or two, Big Cotton
Joe Bouldolf and his cotton ball Iduna.
Off the dance rloor were the following
Party Peppers : Always genenial and
contributing to the merriment were Andy
and Mary B (as in Baumgartner), the two
birthday boys Sol Fromer (a -mean man on
the daocefloor. He can really pick them up
and put tbem down.) and Barney Grill (our
youngest member), Mark and Ginny
Herbst. Regis and Fern Theriac, Jim
Hendrix (accompanied by his wife
Dorothy this time, instead of a friend of the
judge), Hubert and Verla Hough (Hugh
know him. He is the big boy from Iowa),
Leo and Jaguar Terry Johnson, Ted and
Marvella Provost. and Gerry and PeMY
Willardson. All adding their bit bit to pep
the party up. And last but certainly not
least, the Wyoming Wonder, Bill White and
his wife Claire, (BW is one of my fans, so
you know that he must be a super person and intelligent too) .
But the Party's Over Again : But oh how
suite it was; Gathered in our suite for a
family gathering were my sister and
brother in law Dick and Verna Hely, their
offspring Roger and his wife Diane, my
brother Kathy, my mother Ann Stumpf.
Brown Shoe Company Brownies, Ema
Steveoer, Gene Miller, Geneva Oehn and
Harry Dickmann. And from our A.D.B.C.
family Enos and Stella Gould, Sol Fromer,
Bernie Fields and Larry Raines. And what
a swell party it was.
And so to bed.
Sat. morning came too early and too
ugly (Weatherwise).
Some 01 the heartier souls who gathered
early in the lobby for oW' barracks bussing
to our Salute to the deceased Palawan Pals
were:
Ben and Jane Guyton, Ben had the
problema of the program on his shoulders
(And be rose mightily to the occasion)
John Le Claire, hawking rain coats (He
tried to bribe me with one to forget about
the fact that when I said that we were
going to the Chase, he wore hunting
clothes, and arrived on a horse), 1 refused
to be bribed. I wore Honcho Helen Vater's
rain coat, which sbe 80 graciously lent to
me, she said. Then how come when I
returned it Honcho Joe Vater presented
me with a rental bill for It?
Well All Aboard:
While we were aboard the bus we had an
opportunity to meet Jenro Lambaiso from
Virginia Beach, Va. He was attending his
first convention. Has a neighborhood
tavern where he conducts a Gong Show.
Might be a fun thing to have at our Miami
Convention. You all come heah. I know
several people I would like to hit with a
gong.
Bill and I were hoping to take a Sentimental Journey thru Jefferson Barracks
or J .B. as it is affectionately known to us.)
when we went there for the memorial
services. But they took us in another gate,
thus depriving Bill and I the pleasW'e of
seeing the Downs and The Starlite Inn (2
class joints that we both knew - at different times.) However, my sister gave us the
sad news that The Starlite burned down.
(How could they? First Chicago, and now
this) We did not get to see the old stone
barracks either. Now if only Len Naylor
had been the Red Naylor (one of J .B.'s
D.I.'s - and you thought that only the
government could make up mearungfuJ
initials didn' t you? ) we might have
salvaged some memories. Didn't get to see
the parade grounds either, but we did get
to see a parade. A parade of comrades
paying a special tribute to a special group
of buddies whose hopes of ever seeing their
buddies again were burned out at
Palawan,
Did get a chance to talk to Alvie
McDaniel. No he is not related to the
VieMa, Mo. McDaniels. (For those of you
who have been following my thrilling
mysteries of Who Is You - or Where
Where YOU WHEN) However. as his wile
Orpha so wisely put it they are all related
thru some way or another. (True I spent a
lot of summers in and around Vienna, Mo.
and I met a 10tcCrelatives).
Did not get to talk to Larry Cullen, Okay
Larry 80 you did not work with me at
Brown Shoe Co. But here is some more.
(Might as well give up Larry - you are
outnumbered) Were you a neighbor 01 ours
on Farlin Ave.? Are you a neighbor of my
s ister and brother in law Charlie and
Evelyn White? or did you ever work with
them on a fund raising project? (This is a
multiple choice question. If the answer to
any of the above is Yes. You win an opportunity to come to Miami convention on an
all expense paid trip (Paid by Yourself) If
the answer is NO you can come anyhow.
Fair Enough?
While I am sUll in the Missouri mood, I
wonder if &b Costello (from S1. Charles,
Mo.) and I went to school together, at the
Holy Rosary, or the Ashland Public
School? (We were in the same class with a
kid named Abe Lincoln Wonderwhatever
became of him. Seems like he was a golfer.
Him and his Fore Scorel) Also wouJdhave
liked to said Hi to Earl Szwabo who we met
(Continued on Page 14)
MARCH. 1979-13
you will Never guess where. Fontana
Damm. Nuff said
From one sadness to the other - That
alternoon 1attended the Veterans Seminar
(And 1 think you will havetoadmil, THEY
ARE SAD, in more ways than onel) Same
old story. They either send someone from
the V.A. who doesn't know the law (91-376)
or isn't intelligent enough to read and
digest it, or just can't understand why
other veterans offices are not going by it
since they are SURE. We found out that
the last thing that the Veterans A~
tration wants to ~o is FACE THE TRUTH
because if they do theircooscienceses????
might f«ce them to do something about it
Oh weU. it bas been an experience. Not
particularly an inspiring or pleasant ex·
perience - just a bum trip. I also spotted
at this latest V.A. evasion experience
Harold Feiner (Harold how come you left
Ida bome this conventioo? Not n(Bty just interested) and Sam Carr, who bad to
keep a straightface as be listened to all the
hokey that we have bearq, and heard, and
beard. Incidentally this guy from the St
Louis V.A. office .says that a lot of those
rec(l"cis that your local V.A. says were
burned in the St. Louis fire. were not actually burnedl It is just that your local
V.A. doesn't want to go to the trouble to
track your records down. That's what the
man said. I have witnesses. Isn't that
enough to make you burn I Wouldn't doany
good at Newark anyhow, they would just
"loose them." When ever they were
Certified as received with their own office
stampl
LeavU. Wlpleasant ~ behind and
going on to pleasanter scenes :
Meanwhile having a ban in the suite
while I was out busting my brains at the
seminar were:
My sister Verna Hely, my brother in law
Dick Hely, Big Cotton Joe Bouldoll, his
Cotton Ball Iduna, Sol Fromer (The Cal.
Casonova), Little Cotton Bunny Fields,
Larry (SWlShine) Raines, my mother Ann
Stwnpf, and the Genial GenUeman from
Ga . tbeh08t with the moat, Bill Grayson.
Then some of us Saints and some of us
Sinners went off to church. Now I won't
point any fingers this time at who did and
who didn't, but I did walk down to mass
with a group that included Bill HaUBer and
walked back with a group that included
Jimmy Cavanaugh - but where was our
Gemini Gem Marie Cavanaugh? Now
Jimmy'S story is that Marie was stewing
in a Maternity Ward (Now don't get excited. It is not another little Cavanaugh, it
is a daughter this time.) But the truestory
is probably that Marie was left behind
stewing over that super soup that is served
at cavanaugb'a Cave. I know that Helen
Senna spends many an afternoon slaving
over a hot stove beking - pottery. Now
that should cement relations with Al.
However the ma8llacked something. It
was not a Baumann Blast, Father
Baumann was upstaged by the local priest .
Ten you something though, it lacked the
14--11IE QUAN
personal touch that Father Baumann puts
into his performances. So stay well
Father, Miami Beach might appreciate
you better.
SOOn after it was ~n Party time so
AwayWeGo.
Got a chance to be with both eX my
sisters this "nite. My sister Evelyn White
and my niece (and her daughter) Mary
Petty (Married Name) came to bewithus.
My sister Verna Hely and her husband
Dick stayed at the hotel so they could be
near the convention and us. Mostly I think
that it was so they could be near the
convention. Gota chance to dance with two
Califernians this convention.
James Hoops and Earl Walk. Among the
other dancing Dolls and Dons ·were;
Elmer and Charlotte Long, John and
Virginia Rowland, Clarence and AnnieLee
Riggans, Heavenly Helen and Joyful Joe
Poster, Frank and Elaine Raciano, The
Sheik of Albany Artie Akullian and the
Queen of the Harem Aggie Akullian, Pat
and Dotty Patrizio (Dotty requested the
song "After the Lovin" from thecrehestra
and got it - The song, The song. Whenever
I request anything from an orchestra, they
request that I shut up. Maybe I should get
Dotty as my mouthpiece, Bob and Eva
Neil, Charlie (Please Be Seated) Bloskis
and Annette. Bill and Becky Wright, John
Joyus and Happy Dottie Hassler. Swede
(Who was as worried u 1 was that when 1
opened my mouth to sing at the Palawan
ceremonies I would be singing about the
wrong "America") Glad someone else was
as worried about that as 1 Swede) and
Terry Emerick, (His TiI'eless better halO,
and Honcho Joe and Helpful Helen Vater.
Sitting this one out were:
Bob and Dot Vogler (Calif. friends of
Blackie Brennan. Well nobody is perfect.)
Howard and Cecelia Ayres, and bow about
those two wonderful widows who showed
up to be with . j the family" Mary Bosko and
Ten')' Tighe? lJoyd Work who was Bill's
barber over in Japanese Joyland (I
remember meeting Enos barber at
Atlantic City convention - yeab but Enos
is getting compensation), just got time for
a burried hi to John and Kay Sander (Kay
and I did not even get to discuss politics
this time around. But then Kay is beginning to feel as I do - they aren't even
worth discussing these daze.) John must
be doing something right because he
looked A Okay.
They were only passing by : But boy it
was great to see them, 1'00 Magic Chef
George Robinette and his gal Elva. And
Sam and Lill Carr. (Lill in reply to letter1 aimed those prayen in the direction that
you suggested. So far nothing, So what's
new hunh. Keep aiming yours bunb.)
They could have danced all nite but
tomorrow was D Day. ( As in Departure
and Dread)
Some of the younger crowd went up to
the Suite for a Nite Cap; Among the
younger set were my Mother (90 years
young) Ann Stumpf, Barney and Martha
Grill, my sister Verna HeIy and her
husband Dick, Patti Grill (Patti was our
waitress and bartender in Barney's
Kansas City suite. And Sweet she.was. She
has promised to come to the Miami Convention) and my sentimental genUeman
from Ga. Bill Grayson.
But SWlday was Up Up and Away Day
for most the peasants. We stayed over
because it was Mother's Day (And besides
that it is cheaper to travel on Mon. ) In the
lobby on the way to breakfast we spotted a
pile of passionate pink luggage - and yes
parked Dext to it were Wanda and Dwight
Woodall. At the check out COWlter paying
the price was Dan Stoudt On the way to
breakfast my mother was annexed ' by
Peggy Brennan to have breakfast with
her, so I annexed me another mother, a
Gold Star Mother, Lura Brazeau (that's
who) . Meanwhile back at the bar Blackie
Brennan was waiting for them to fmd his
car so they could leave - a likely story.)
They were going on a Sentimental Journey. Peg did go on that Sentimental
Journey (Herlast-Seebelow)
They visited with Gloria Gardner
(Widow of Chief Bill Gardner in Calif.),
and Mike and Julia LUchkoand litUeMike
and Little Julia. Peg was looking forward
to seeing them again at the Miami convention.
Also going places after the convention
were our New White HatJimCantwelland
his wife Gerry. Bill and I do well to get
home let alone go somewhere else once the
convention is over. Maybe they just have
more money or more stamina than we
have. Or maybe both.
Ran into the Fitch's too. They were
attending their first cooventioo and were
looking for someone from New Jersey that
they hoped might be attending the convention, but the oame was new to me so I
couldn't help them out,
Would like to have gotten to talk to
Senior Franklin Boyer from Chapala,
Jalisco Mexico. (Wonder if he knows
where is Ensenada?) and Jack and Euia
Mal Gates about another favorite city.
Memphis, Tenn. Now there would be a nice
place for a convention.
Had time fer a quick one with Margie
and Herman Hausmann, and my sister
Verna and brother in law Dick in theswte.
But after we left them they were having a
few quick ones with Barney Grill while
they were waiting to cat.ch their plane only the made one mistake they thought
that Barney could tell time just because he
was wearing a watch. They almost missed
their plane, because Barney got the hig
hand messed up with the little hand.
Francis Macey (of the Mass. Mafia)
wisely did not show up this year. Ever
since he tried to muscle in on Dolly
Goodrow's laundry business and John Le
Claire threatened court action over the
pink shorts episode (I will not elaborate. If
you did not read my San Diego ~ri, eat
your heart out) Macy has been in biwng.
Dolly is also in another business DOW too.
She designs and makes clothes and I wear
them. If you buy a model ole my back I get
10 per cent (and arrested) . Does this mean
that John Goodrow will no longer have to
open up doors and unload cars at the co~
ventioo?
Arriving borne in New Jersey who
should we run into at the airport but Kay
and Larry Mcqueeney. So while LarTY
chauffered us home Kay and I were able to
have an additional convention Chit Chat
(see who says we are back seat drivers? )
This is the hardest Quan that I ever had
to write. Two people who contributed so
much to my laughter died recently (as well
as oneofoW' Gold Stars) ,
Our Beloved, witty peggy Brennan and
smiling, singing Mark Wohlfeld and
generous Betty Clogston.
Please the rest of you please stay
healthy aod please please pray that the
following people have an upswing with
their health problems':
Joan DeNobUe. Helen Senna, Helen
Poster, Gladys Cooke, Loyd Work and
John Bennett. I have such problems with
Honcho Vater when my column is late.
And now with the 7 per cent salary cap.
Well.
t had mOlit of my Quan sketched out
when Peg Brennan died and 1 told Bill that
I would have to scrap it slnce so much was
about Peg Brennan that I would have to
pull out. But he said No Sugah leave It in.
She would want it that way. And she told
me when she bad her first heart attack
"I'm not going to give up llving." So It was
with these thoughts in mind thatI left " our
living peggy" in the Quan.
To Dear
peggy and Mark
It is with so much sadness
We bid farewell to you who brought us 10
much gladness
To Peggy Brennan with bet smile ever
winnin
To Mark Woblfeld, Ole Alley Cat
I know you ate singing, wberevl!l" you're at
Mybeartacbes
I thought 1 would never get my Quan done
Your deaths took away so much of the flm
So to God we pray
Bless tbemeacbandeveryday
For aU the joy they seatourway
Our little family with the big bea.rtI is
growing smaller, but not duller, so if you
want to get in ODlOmeofthe merrier times
attend the coeveotioo at Miami Beacb
May 6-13. Where we will see: If AI Clminl
can now swim without his water wingI,
Ben Stevens will leave the race track long
enough toattend, wbetherMaeeywillbave
the guts to show up, bow Le ClaIre will try
.. to bribe me this time, if HODCho Joe Vater
, is really going to bave muacle men take
over if 1 don' t pay my monthly inatallment
on my presenl
Tomeet some peopIewbo are a WOW
And that'saUtherels for oow.
Tired Mary
VISIT TO AIR UNIVERSITY
There is much information of interest to
ADBC memben at Maxwell AFB, particularly those who served in the Army Air
Corps in the Philippines. Quarters are
available for Military Retirees except
wben full during seminars. I stayed in the
VOQ on 15 February 1979. Upon entering
the AU Library, one sees a life-site
painting of LTG Lewis H. Brereton, who
was Air Corps Comma.nder in the
Philippines wben WWII began. I examined
some 700 card catalogs aod studied 30
documents. Some are summarized below :
19 Bomb Group Diary. 22 pages. Contains 8
crews aod assigned 0.17 by serial number.
List of 9 officers and 10 EM evac from Del
Monte to Java. Interesting diary of many
accidents, aborted missions, planes stuck
in mud, miwed targets; but successful
strafing by enemy Zeroes. Sad.
History of Fifth Air Force (and its
predecessors) Part I, Dec. 41-Aug. 42.
Staff of FEAF liated: Commander : MG
Brereton. C / S Col. Francis M. Brady.
G-l Not known. G-2 Maj. RF.C. Vance.
G-3 Maj. Cbas. H. Caldwell G-4 Maj. K.J.
Gregg. Eng. O. CPT Harold Eads. SIG
CPT. L. Mason. Adj. Cen. CPT. J .R
Mamerow. QM Ltc. McConathy. Line
UnitJ : 5th Bomber Command: Ltc.
Eugene L. Eubank. (1700 and 27BG). 2:od
Obs. Sqn. 5th Interceptor Command: BG
Henry B. Claggett, Col. Harold H. George.
24th Pursuit Gp. FEAF Service Command: Phil. Air Depot, 36th Air Base Gp.
5th Air Base Gp. 20th Air Base Group. 803
Eng. Bn. (Avo) . Also contains Jap. Air
Strength on 8 Dec. tl . FEAF Dispoaitions
on 7 Dec. 41. Tactical Missions 19 BG Dec..
41 . Casualties amon.g officers 24th PG,
Dec. tl . Airplane Status at Brisbane.
Dates of Jap. attacks in PI and SW Pac.
areas, Dec.. 41-Aug. 42.
Composition Book containing serial
number and crew oll1 0.17s that flew to
Malan&, Java, Dec. 41-Feb. 42. Alsolistol
24 Maintenance EM and 6 extra officers
plus 23 officers from Del Moote 20 Jan. 42
to Java. 'Iben some B-17E arrlved24 Jan.
42. Nine more officers pha 11 EM from Del
Monte 7 Feb. Five officers from Baman 7
Feb. Three officers from PI 8 Feb. ODe B17D with 3 officers and 5 EM from
Australia 14 Feb. FwrLBarriveJava4-11
Feb. Five 8-17 arrive Java 6-10 Feb. Most
of these planes were lOll
Diary of CPT, Cecil C. Knudson, 19BG.
Lv. McDill (Fklrida) 2 Jan. 42. Via
Trinidad, 8ruiJ, Africa, cairo,
Jav., 27 Jan. 42. Feb. operatioas in Java.
Australia.
Hiltory 01 27th Bomb Group. A great 101
page typed document, CootaiDa dedic.
tioe, authors, preface, Clark Field, Ferry
Pilots to AustraUa. 27th Oil Bataan. Formation of new 27th .t Australia. 91st Sqn.
in Java . Operations ol16th all.d 17th Sqas,
in Australia. Submersion of 27th into 3rd
Bomb Group. 8th Sqn. at Perl Moresby.
13th and 90th Sqns. awoo. 89th Sqn. at
P<rlMoresby.
to_
24th Pursuit Group, Aug. 4D-Feb. 42.
Strength B Dec. 41 : e Maj. , 6 Cpt., 58 ILl,
148 aLL, 5 WOo KIA; 5 ILt., 21 2Ll MIA.
Transferred to Australia or Java ; 2 Maj., 2
Cpt, 201Lt., 'n2Lt Remaining 138 officers
assumed to be MIA or POWs. Of the 90
tactical planes three ran the blockade, all
others lost including 6 noo-tac planes. But
44 pilots of the 24th shot down or destroyed
103 enemy planes plus sinking ships and
damaging airports aod other accoutrements of war. Wagoeraccountedf«
10 enemy planes; Dyess 5. Scores of other
pilots also given.
From History of Fifth AF : Begin WW11j
In PI 35 B-178. 27BG no planes reached PI.
A-24s on later ships diverted to Brisbane,
Australia. On 7 Dec. 41 there were some
ground echelons of 7th BG (H-24) enroute
to PI. Part of this ecbelon flying from
California landed at Pearl Harbor; but
none reached PI. List of Pursuit Field! in
PI : Nichols, Nielson, Clark, lba, Rosales,
Del Carmen. Bomber Fields; Clark, Del
Monte. Fields Nearing Completion:
O'DooneIl, San Fernando. Temate, San
Marcelino.
Bensoe Guyton, 704. 14th Avenue, SE;
Decatur, Alabama 35601.
National adjutant, ADBC.
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'Flllplnizatlon' Process
ANGELES CITY, Feb. 4 - Many parts
of Clark air base are now being rac:HcaUy
changed by various Pbilippine governmeat agencies engaged in "Filipinizlnt'
select facilities.
Such changes were effected in prepar.
tion (or the takeover of a Filipino base
commaDderFeb. 17.
Now W'ldergoing conslr11ction is a giant
'salakot' entrance in front 01. the base's
main pte, a few yards before reaching the
Philippine national railways track.
The giant 'salakot' is stradcDed atop big
and sturdy steel beams and when finlahed,
will give visitors an instant glimpse 01.
lIdnp Fill .....
Clart cheekpointa are now being
manned by Philippine Air Force security
police who stand guaid aloogside USAF
security officen.
Formerly the gates were manned by the
Constabulary, US department 01. Defense
civllian security guards and USAF airpolicemen. Since the PAF took over, PC
asai&ned to the checkpoint. have gone.
Around the pertmete!' outside the base,
similar acUvttiei are belIe undertaken by
the A~eles city eDCiDeer's office, headed
by FiJomeno M. BODifado.
BOIlilaclo,
followina
a directive by
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May 6-13,1979
The CARILLON Miami Beach, Fla.
Mayor Rlfael lA.utin said areas owide
C1art would undergo massive faceliftina:.
1be Astropart, • six hectare FU-Aroerican park In (rontol. Clark's main pte will
be beautilled thiJ week. The same also
with tberoad around tbeperimeter.
Gea. Romeo C. Espino. cbief-of-ataff 01.
the PbillppiDe Armed Forces, headed the
other
deJeptiOIl rI PbiUpplne
military authorities to conduct an occ:uJar
u.pection fA the ceremonial site. the pte
aDd perimeter area fA tbe"PbiUpplne base
rnorrma •
beN.
The Philippine flal was boisted on an 80
foot bilh nat pole near the main ptes t1
two baiea, a dear manifestation fA lull US
rec:opjtion of Pbillppinel soverelpty
over the tuea after S2 yeus of occupation.
A source at the PbilippiDe Military liaiSOD olfke here laid it was only in front at
the beadquarten of the Amertean commander of the US fadltties wbI!n the US
ani PhIJlpplDe n..,. wtJI be IIown ,Ide by
side, witb the latter flag oc:cupyin& a place
ofbonor.
A c:oatinCerat 01. five officers and tf1
eoJloled men !roo> the PhillpplDe " ' _ ,
which bad completed orientatioo trainina:
at the office of the pl'OV08t marabal ha.
already started duty.
Col. Ceu.r Abella, wbo will be the
Fi1lplno bo.......... monbal, ..Id the
remaiDlDl elements of the MariDe con~
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Sources said there are yet no buUdlnp
cootracted for the be.dquarten of the'
PbWppine '-secommaDdtr.
Nine fadlities in tbe baM will be
leDt were slill undergoing traininlin Fort retained by the US pverrmeDt. Tbey are
Bonllacio.
the public ..... ce...., the obip repair
Abella said his men will maD the ""s fadltty, naval station, Davalaupply depot,
naval air statim, naval mapzine. marine
three ptel and ~trol the perimeter but
added be would not know whether the . barracb. Daval reaional medieal center,
security t1 the main pte will be jolnUy and the US naval.tattoo communication in
auumed by Philippine and US Marines.
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