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Memoirs of Ruth Hooper
Memoirs of Ruth Hooper
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the most beautiful people in the world. The Japanese in camp had loaded some trucks which were parked in front of one of the buildings with their gear etc. They tried to get them out but our boys came in too quickly for them to do so. They ran back into the building where they held some 200 or more internees as hostages. I don’t know how many of the Japanese there were, possibly 250 or 300. At first our boys tried to take the building and fired many shots into it, but they realized they were endangering the lives of the internee hostages so stopped. When Carr and I saw our boys coming in, we joined hands and ran from our shack and just as we got almost to where they had stopped we discovered that right in front of us were five Japanese Officers going also up to meet the boys – they intended to surrender with ceremony and honor. I guess they changed their minds when the two officers in front were pushed up against a wall and their swords and handguns taken from them. Then the next two got the same treatment, but the fifth and last officer was Obiko1, the Commandant who had been so cruel to us. When they reached for him he reached for a hand grenade and when he did that he was immediately mowed down…He fell dead at my feet – the only Japanese I actually saw killed. We were then ordered by our own folks to disband and get out of the line of fire so they could do what had to be done. Those brave 840 boys set about digging foxholes and setting up their big guns. Those 840 First Cavalry Men had come 90 miles straight through the Japanese Army without stopping to fight, carrying their own dead and wounded. It was a full 24 hours before elements of the Fifth Army were able to reach Manila as they had been under counter attacks from the Japanese forces in the north. In the
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In this personal narrative Ruth Williams Hooper shares her experiences in the Philippines before World War II, of her time at Santo Tomas Internment Camp with her husband Carr Hooper, and of their return home. The camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was run by the Japanese military during World War II and housed over 3,000 internees from January 1942 until February 1945.
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