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Memoirs of Ruth Hooper
Memoirs of Ruth Hooper
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the Pasig River, the awful smell, the beautiful buildings completely destroyed and the beautiful Old Walled City a pile of rubble. I did not go but I did see the wreckage of the Walled City when I was on my way to the ship that would bring us safely home. It was the John D. Lykes and had been converted into a troop transport ship. I will finish the story now about the rooster. As I mentioned before, we had many so-called beach combers in camp and one we learned to know quite well. He was a tall red-haired man from Australia. He worked hard in camp and I loved to hear him talk with the Australian drawl or whatever you call it. One afternoon we were in our little shack and looked up to see him standing in front of the door. He said he had a secret to tell us, but could not tell us before. He said that his secret was that he ate the Commandant’s rooster. How he managed this he did not explain, nor did we ask him. We stayed in Santo Tomas for some time as they took the very old, the sick, the crippled, mothers with small children first and too, the ships could not get into Manila Bay and to the piers because of sunken vessels. The first to leave had to be flown out to other ports in the islands to board a ship for home. Finally, it was our time to leave. The trip home was a long hard one, crowded with several thousand troops and about 900 internees. We first went to Hollandia, New Guinea, where we had to zigzag and circle all night for security reasons. We could not enter the harbor after dark. That was the hottest place I ever saw except perhaps Panama. You could see steam rising from the water and feel it too. Carr had a nephew stationed in Hollandia at the time but we did not get to see him which, of course, would have been wonderful. We had an escort of seven ships for several days and then we were on our own.
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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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World War II
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