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...Philippines are to become an independent nation by July 4, 1946. But U.S. soldiers in Manila found that, to many a Filipino, the prospect of independence was almost fearful. In assuming independency, the Philippines will lose the privilege of duty-free trade with the U.S.-a trade which claimed 76% of their exports in peacetime years...
...Santo Tomás, it shudders almost constantly under the convulsive roaring of our Long Toms [155-mm. rifles] shelling the Japs inside Manila and close on its outskirts. Liberation has cost a price which only so precious a thing as freedom could justify, yet I have found no Filipino unwilling...
...Several thousand Japs are still fighting back from the old walled city, the Intramuros. Their commander has chosen annihilation, in answer to a demand that he surrender to save the lives of uncounted thousands of Filipino civilians there. One completely authenticated atrocity story is reported by American officers. From an observation post they watched while the Japs tied a naked, teen-age Filipino girl to a post in front of an archway, to keep our artillery from shelling the archway, which they used for troop movements...
...notorious Bilibid, 800 prisoners had survived on a meager ration of wormy corn, rice and soybeans. But they thought this was not so bad as life in the "hellhole" camp at Cabanatuan. Survivors liberated from Cabanatuan by U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas told of the menu there two years ago: rats, cats, dogs, worms and frogs they caught hopping from latrines...
...were able to talk, quietly and coherently. In an evacuation hospital they recalled the horrors and degradation they had endured for almost three years; the last days on Corregidor, when the enemy lost 4,500 troops in his final frenzied attack; the death march from Bataan; the sight of Filipino children impaled on Jap bayonets; the notorious compounds at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice...