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Their bombs blew Tweed's house apart so that he had to drag his bed under a fragment of roof to keep out of the rain. He woke up in the night at the sound of firing but foggily decided that it was practice and went back to sleep. He did not realize that the Japs had landed until he heard their field guns firing. Then Tweed walked down to Government House to get the score and found that the Governor was going to surrender...
...Tweed did not want to surrender. "So," he explained, "I got in my old 1926 Reo, packed some things and started up the road into the hills...
...onrushing Japs blazed away at him but Tweed rumbled off safely, picking up a fellow seaman...
...Hunted. The two of them settled down in the hills to wait for the Navy to return for them-in two or three months, they figured. Tweed's companion wandered off. He got caught by the Japs, and was decapitated. Four other Americans had taken to the hills in defiance of a Jap order-surrender or be executed when caught. They were caught. Tweed stuck...
...pair of shoes out of the hide of a deer he killed. He sickened once after a meal of wild fruit. But he fared pretty well most of the time. " I guess the mountain air agreed with me," said Tweed...