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Post by darthdract on Feb 2, 2012 23:37:34 GMT 8
I created this thread to invite people to post any information regarding the Raid and the Japanese retaliation.
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Post by darthdract on Feb 2, 2012 23:50:01 GMT 8
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Post by okla on Feb 3, 2012 6:13:21 GMT 8
Hey Darth...There was a great piece on the History Channel, here in the States not too many years ago, that dealt with the event. Interviews with many of the internees, military personnel who took part in the rescue operation,etc. I can't remember the actual name of the production, but it was excellent. Surely they will re-run it in the future and it could be made available in the PI. Cheers. Postscript...I do remember that the Japanese Officer, generally responsible for the massacre,was discovered after hostilities laboring in a work crew on, if memory serves, a golf course. Can't remember after being tried, whether he was shot, hung, or given a slap on the wrist. In my humble, they should have shot him the day he was spotted in the work gang.
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Post by darthdract on Feb 3, 2012 16:35:52 GMT 8
I think my Grandfather's first wife and his daughters on his first marriage, where one of the victims in Los, Banos, All we know is that they were killed by the Japanese. in Los Banos. he only revealed the parts of the Story to my Grand Mother his second wife after the war.
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Post by darthdract on Feb 3, 2012 17:41:15 GMT 8
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Post by darthdract on Feb 3, 2012 18:14:52 GMT 8
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Post by darthdract on Feb 3, 2012 18:22:30 GMT 8
An art work depicting the Raid
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Post by darthdract on Feb 3, 2012 20:13:38 GMT 8
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Post by okla on Feb 4, 2012 4:22:04 GMT 8
Hey Darth...Thanks for posting. This is good stuff. I hope that sometime you get to view the PBS/History Channel production pertaining to this extraordinary military operation. It mentioned that some of the very elderly internees were rather reluctant to leave their "home" and few personal possessions,etc and had to be coerced to evacuate. I suppose this was the result of the aging process,etc. Maybe they felt "secure" in that environment after three years plus, of internment. This may have been touched on in this material, but I haven't gone over it completely as yet. Thanks again for posting. It is certainly a "feel good story" as is the Cabanatuan epic, only Los Banos has the grisly aftermath of the massacre. I still say that the Japanese Commander should have been shot on the spot when he was picked up from the work crew on which he was trying to conceal his identity. Cheers.
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Post by darthdract on Feb 4, 2012 14:01:51 GMT 8
okla Good Day. I am looking forward to watch that Documentary from the history Channel. I really hope that some one can see this board and can share their own personal accounts even if it is 3rd hand accounts already like in my case. My goal here is to preserved this part of our oral history before it is forever lost. I have an 80 year old aunt who is like 14 or 15 during the liberation she used to tell us that 1944 is the worst part of WW2 for them, They have to eat Rice Soak in Sea Water, They Call that " sisid Rice" sisid a Tagalog term for "Dive" Since the bags of rice have to be dived from a sunken ship to be salvage hence the term Dived rice or know locally Sisid Rice
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