War Diaries (March 8) (nonfiction)
War Diary quotations for March 8.
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Sascha Weinzheimer: March 8, 1945
At about five o'clock last night ten of our planes came over our Camp. One pilot dropped his goggles with a note tied to them ... it fell in the main building patio where there weren't any Nips "“ and lucky a friend of ours found it because we found out right away what it said: "Roll out the barrel! Your Christmas will be here today or tomorrow." Shortly we heard guns and tanks in the distance. Everyone thought it must be the Japs except Daddy. He was sure it was the Americans!
Sascha Weinzheimer recorded her impressions of life in the Philippines under Japanese occupation.
Major George Woods took mother, Dad and me through Manila in a jeep to see the ruins. We had heard how badly Manila was destroyed but until we saw it with our own eyes, we couldn't believe such a thing could happen. The whole city "“ Nothing left! Taft Avenue, the Boulevard, everything in ruins. The odor from the dead was awful and whenever we stopped the big green flies were all over us.