Word: culion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WADE, M.D. Culion Leper Colony Philippines...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army, busy winning back the Philippine Islands south of Luzon, found time for an errand of mercy. Troops of Major General Jens A. Doe's 41st Division landed on tiny Culion island, just north of Palawan, to bring freedom, food and medical supplies to the ulcerated, miserable inmates of the world's largest leper colony...
...Jesuit Mission Press in Manhattan dug up this ancient history in reporting that today's Japanese invasion has brought 6,000 Filipino lepers on the blockaded island of Culion near starvation...