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When the doors (of the ramshackle boxcars) were opened, someone, I can't remember who, said we had reached Capas, a town in Tarlac province, and that we were headed for O'Donnell prison camp-named for the town of O'Donnell. . . . A seven-mile hike to O'Donnell prison was ahead of us. . . . My first good look at O'Donnell prison was from atop a rise about a mile off. I saw a forbidding maze of tumbledown buildings, barbed wire entanglements, and high guard towers, from which flew the Jap flag. I had flown...
...boys take their work more seriously than average U.S. students. But not all their time is spent at work. They hike and hunt, play baseball and football. One baseball team is called the Lechugas (Lettuces); another the "Guernseys." The smallest class member is nicknamed "Atomic Weight...
...relaxation he listened to recorded symphony music. For exercise he walked as he had in boyhood, striding along at the regulation rate of 132 steps a minute. Once 208-lb. Rear Admiral Charles A. Dunn, an old classmate, agreed to hike around the foothills of Pearl Harbor. Dunn soon regretted it. His feet swelled and blistered. Still Spruance paced along, hour after hour, until Dunn finally asked plaintively if they could turn around at the next crossroads...
...Nancy. As a refrain, all through the account of fighters and fighting appear touching snatches from Peg's and the girls' letters-the perennials Peg won at a bridge game, Susan and her clarinet, Nancy's i sth-birthday trip to New York, the Girl Scout hike, the bicycle trek to Newark. Peg wrote: "Your office always asks me if I have any message to add to their cables and I can't think of any except my love...
...again became the main topic of conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...