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18 Apr, 14 tweets, 5 min read
Until May 6 #PhilippineDiaryProject will mark the anniversaries of the Fall of Bataan and the Fall of Corregidor with the diary entries of individuals who lived through those events. Today's thread is April 18, 1942...
1. Victor Buencamino NARIC (today's NFA) administrator Manila 4/18/42: With no more rice imports the danger of a shortage is real philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
2. Louise Blancaflor Panay 4/18/42 Stories from people fleeing the Japanese who are marching into Capiz philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/sat…
3. Fr. Juan Labrador OP Manila 4/18/42: The three capitals of Panay island and also Cebu occupied by the Japanese without firing a shot philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
4. Capt. Lohr POW camp, Tarlac 4/18/42: "my life here in the prisoners camp is but a continuation of hardships, lamentations, sorrows and isolations." philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
5. Robert Davis USN medic interned in St. Scholastica's Manila 4/18/42: Japanese corporal slapped a doctor philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/18-…
6. Phillip Buencamino III Filipino prisoners' camp Capas Tarlac 4/18/42: friends dying; pitied American prisoners; we wonder until when we will be prisoners philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
8. Arthur Shreve US officer 4/18/42: Water is a terrible problem and I have the job of fixing it here in prison camp philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
9. John Horan USFIP commander in Cordilleras 4/18/42: Wainwright says we are to hamper the Japanese either by direct attack or transport routes sabotage philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
10. Fay Bailey American banker interned in UST 4/18/42: More civilians outside coming in to be registered by Japanese philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
11. David Nash Fort Hughes Manila Bay 4/18/42: Quiet day we only fired one shot at the Japanese who didn't fire on us at all philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
12. Herman Beaber American Protestant missionary Pasay 4/18/42: colleague has dystentery; went to UST to re-register with Japanese philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/sat…
13. Gen. Lewis Beebe Corregidor 4/18/42: So quiet we can actually smoke outside; trying to get big seaplane here to ferry people and supplies from Mindanao philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…
14. Gen. Basilio Valdes Melbourne 4/18/42: Conference with president; meeting with Gen. MacArthur's chief of staff philippinediaryproject.com/1942/04/18/apr…

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