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Correspondent Frank Hewlett, whose own wife was still a prisoner at Santo Tomas, rode into Manila in the same jeep with Mydans and this is what he cabled to the United Press...
...TIME'S other correspondent in the Philippines, Melville Jacoby, took off on a little island freighter to follow the action across the bay to Bataan and Corregidor. Two days later Mydans and his wife Shelley were herded with some 3,500 other Americans into the internment camp at Santo Tomas University. They spent the next 21 months as prisoners of the Japs...
Mydans and his wife remember the months of internment at Santo Tomas as "an atmosphere of constant, oozing fear and unrelieved physical discomfort. All of us found ourselves losing the power to keep perspective and to remember who we were and the lives we used to lead. With no purpose and no future we were overcome with the feeling of futility...
Hundreds of the Americans rescued there this week are his personal friends from those internment days; and when Carl went back to Santo Tomas with our triumphant troops it must have been a very special moment...
Bulldozers to Beer. The story of Manus' building was typical. Seabees, trained on the Pacific coast for this specific job, landed there six months ago on the heels of the invading Army. Their boss was Commodore James E. Boak, who built the Espiritu Santo cruiser base...