Word: bataanin
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...practical Hal George were only a few P-40s and Philippine Army training planes when U.S. troops retired to Bataan for their last stand in Luzon. He used them as if they were bombers, hid his anxiety for his youngster pilots by working at his hobby: woodcarving. His "Lady Bataanin," a shapely reclining nude, became a luck piece which pilots touched before going out after the Jap. They needed luck. The Jap bombed the two makeshift fields endlessly, was always overhead with fighters when they took off because he was close enough to hear their engines warming up. Like...
Ordered to Australia, he shaved his Luzon beard, got back to trig uniform, waited with burning impatience for the day when his comrades might be somehow relieved. Lady Bataanin was with him, a reminder that kept his eyes blazing when he was out against the. Jap in the Australian area. The day never came. When he heard of the fall of Bataan one day at mess, he unashamedly wept for his youngsters, who had taken everything in their stride, who had talked of missing buddies as though they had gone out to lunch...
...that Hal George was out to lunch, Lady Bataanin was alone...
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