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...France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
They were still there when Manila fell. They were interned in Santo Tomás prison. Shelley describes what followed as 21 months of "constant, oozing fear." She became a monitor of the women's room, a member of the sanitation committee, one of the detail which picked the weevils out of the cereal. Eventually transferred to another internment camp in Shanghai, she was repatriated with her husband aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm, in December...
...humid summer of 1942, Sergeant Nano Lucero and 80 other U.S. soldiers lived in a mountain hideout near Manila. Their food was smuggled in by friendly Filipinos. Among those who came bearing gifts were a young woman named Romana Romero, her sister and her brother. When word came over the guerrilla grapevine that the Japanese were on the way, Romana was the first to give warning...
...food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano's army pants, finally got him a forged birth certificate which enabled him to pose as a Spanish farmer who had come to the Philippines before the war. After that life was easier; they could go back to Manila...
...fall of 1943, Romana had a baby; it died a few hours after birth. Last January she had another, which lived. They named him Richard. Soon afterward, U.S. troops came back to Manila. In April, their life of hiding over, Romana and Nano were married...