← Previous – RS2B – Next → Beautiful Manila, Japanese Arrived••• After having lived in San Francisco all my life, I now witnessed sights in Manila that both amazed and baffled me. If I had only one word to describe the scene that unfolded
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← Previous – RS2A – Next → RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET••• I was up at the crack of dawn and on deck when we cast off our mooring lines and headed back out to sea. I saw the name of the destroyer as
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← Previous – RS01 – Next → Since 1936, American military officers had been serving in the Philippines, organizing and training Filipino troops. When the threat of war in the Pacific increased, the Philippine Army was ordered into the regular service of the U.S.
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THE CALL TO ARMS “Never in American history was an event more anticipated yet more of a surprise than the attack on Pearl Harbor,”…. Time Magazine. Against my father’s advice, I dropped out of college and enlisted in the Army
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Background of the book The original title of this book was “The Emperor’s Hostages” written by the same author. However, another writer, Harold Stephens, who also was a Second World War veteran in the Pacific Stage got a copy of
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