Prelude to battle. The good news was that no counterattack materialized; the bad news was that the presence of American artillery in the front yard invited counterfire from the Japanese, and the internees were in the middle.

If the Japanese managed to do this, it would make the legislature buildings relatively hard to reach.When MacArthur decreed the formation of the ‘Flying Column’ the 1st Cav troops, to whom he had decreed it, had come ashore at Lingayen Gulf on 27 January. The Marine gunner who had dropped the goggles that let us know the cavalry was on the way was able to find his brother, and another brother held at a second camp. Like the Balfours, we stayed with friends in the United States before sailing to England, where home was our grandparents’ big house in Hampshire. Another meal came that evening.Security upstairs was lax. By then, Hayashi and his troops had fled to the second floor. When one elderly internee’s bedding caught fire, the man dropped dead, apparently of a heart attack.The Japanese soldiers shot back sporadically, killing one GI and wounding several others before all firing stopped. When an 8th Cavalry unit peeled off with five Shermans to take Malacañang Palace, the Japanese there fled, then counterattacked without success.In his office on the Education Building’s ground floor, Hayashi could hear the enemy tanks.

The frightened Cary walked into the Education Building, hands outstretched, shouting in Japanese, “Cary coming in as messenger, unarmed!” He told the commandant that unless he surrendered in 10 minutes the tankers would open fire. The officer, hit in the stomach, fell to the ground.

During my postwar years in English boarding schools—another sort of imprisonment—America meant glamour and liberation. These prisoner raids – collectively – killed, wounded, or scattered about a thousand enemy troops and resulted in freedom for almost eight times that many allied prisoners of war, including the largest number of American civilian internees ever taken prisoner by an armed enemy in the history of our nation.

Playing for time, he told Hayashi his superiors had to approve the deal.WE AWOKE ON FEBRUARY 4 to an informal truce. Others tried to use Abiko’s own sword to slice off his ear before soldiers muscled him into the Main Building. An exception was their hated commander, Lieutenant Nanakazu Abiko, who enjoyed humiliating us. “Go round the Nips, bounce off the Nips, but go to Manila. When the shooting stopped, guards came into our room to peer out windows and grab our mattresses, which they used to barricade the stairs. An ambush at a road intersection during the fight at Gapan cost the life of LTC Tom Ross, commander of the third serial. Machine guns began firing. His next running – with his brand new Distinguished Service Cross – was for Congress where he won a Tennessee seat in the House of Representatives.After the Column crossed the river at Novaliches it moved down Quezon Boulevard straight toward Santo Tomas Internment Camp and Malacanang Palace.Inside the prison camp, 3,700 apprehensive civilian men, women and children were watching the approach of the tracer-bullet fireworks in the evening sky with a strange mixture of excitement and dread. Apparently unaware that more than 200 civilian prisoners were in the Education Building too, Gearhart wheeled his tanks into firing position. The rest of the prisoners slept in the massive Main Building, other smaller buildings, or homemade shanties.We had grown accustomed to nighttime gunfire, but the shooting that evening seemed louder and nearer. Take Malacañang Palace [the government headquarters] and the Legislative Building.”Within 36 hours, Mudge had assembled his main rescue force: 1,900 men in two columns, one from the 5th Cavalry Regiment, and the other from the 8th Cavalry.

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