Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans taken captive on Bataan and Corregidor, at least 7,700 had been tortured, starved or shot to death in the first year of imprisonment. The number of dead among the 28,000 Filipino captives was incalculable...
...guards repeatedly promised us food, but never produced it. . . . American and Filipino prisoners fell out frequently and threw themselves moaning beside the roadside. The stronger were not permitted to help the weaker. We would then hear shots behind...
...were introduced to a form of torture which came to be known as the sun treatment. We were made to sit in the boiling sun all day long without cover. We had very little water; our thirst was intense. . . . The Japanese dragged out the sick and delirious. Three Filipino and three American soldiers were buried while still alive...
...growing love of secrecy. The public at large ascribed press protests at the neglect and exclusion of reporters at Cairo and Teheran to self-interested bellyaching. But Elmer Davis does not work for the U.S. press; he works for the U.S. people. There was room for six Filipino cooks in the President's Cairo-Teheran party, but no room for Mr. Davis...
...removed. A green curtain hung about the improvised bed. The plane's remaining 26 bucket seats were for Harry Hopkins and Admiral Leahy, for the President's naval and military aides, his physician, a masseur, and his valet, Prettyman. Also taken along were a corps of six Filipino cooks from the Presidential yacht Potomac...