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...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, sweet potatoes, radish tops...
Neither Manila nor her liberators were garbed for a gala. The city was drab and dirty after the Jap occupation. The incoming soldiers were dust-caked and sweat-streaked. But next morning, as the sun mounted, the miracle of freedom restored called forth a rush of popular emotion that was louder than the music of bands, gayer than whipping banners...
Suddenly Manila's unkempt streets swarmed with men, women & children, shouting "Veektory!" and "Mabuhay!" -the Tagalog "Hurrah!" From the little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless...
They have no feeling yet that the war is lost. But they sense uneasily that Pearl Harbor was a mistake. For that they blame the Germans, whom they have come to hate. A popular Tokyo joke tells how a Jap slapped a Bulgarian military attache. When he was informed that his victim was an "honorably ally," the Jap apologized: "So sorry, I thought he was a German." But this feeling against Germans is part of a greater hostility toward all whites. (There are still a few thousand white neutrals in Japan...
...Coconuts emptied of milk and filled with explosive, which the Japs sowed along the route of their retreat in Burma. At first overlooked by detector squads, the coconuts blew the legs off infantrymen, the wheels off vehicles. Allied troops captured a Jap ammunition dump stored with thousands of them...