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...hoping eventually to begin life anew in America. Six months after they got to Manila, the Japanese attacked. Both men volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and went into action. They fought through the whole campaign on Luzon, went through the Bataan death march, spent three years in Jap prison camps. Fred was later killed by American bombs, but Hans-stricken with tuberculosis and weighing only 90 Ibs.-was still alive...
...Korea last summer, was relieved of his command. The official reason was that Keiser had pneumonia. Keiser was replaced by red-faced, outspoken Major General Robert B. ("Uncle Bob") McClure, a top staff man in the Pacific war who had once remarked that the "smell of a dead Jap is perfume to my nostrils...
...patrols picked the first ones up about 150 yards out. The Chinese charged in and overwhelmed us with a real mass attack. About three out of every ten of them were loaded with automatic weapons of some sort-Tommy guns, burp guns or automatic carbines. Others carried .25-caliber Jap rifles. They were all loaded down with grenades...
Tyrone and Micheline spend a good portion of their time necking in a grass hut when there are no parties or village dances to go to, but every few months they have to dodge a Jap patrol. It cannot be denied, however, that variety is the spice of life in the Philippines...
Well, one day there they all are--Ty and Micheline and all the guerillas--when a truck full of Jap soldiers pulls into town. The village church gets shot up something awful and most of the Japs get what's coming to them and those Ty hasn't had a chance to kill yet get in their truck and go away just as the sky begins to buzz with hundreds and hundreds of American planes and it looks like MacArthur was right when he said "I shall return" and sure enough he does return or anyhow somebody wearing stars...