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14 — THE QUAN “Book of Honor” Hellships Memorial (Subic Bay, The Philippines) DESCRIPTION and INTENT A “BOOK OF HONOR” — dedicated to those who participated in defense of the Philippines, Asia and South West Pacific in World War II — is a part of the Hellships Memorial. The actual “BOOK OF HONOR”, with these tributes, will be accessible within Hellships Memorial space in the nearby Museum. It honors whose who survived and those who died aboard these ships. Tributes will include brief text tribute, picture(s) and a personal web site if appropriate. There will be NO cost to participate. WEB SITE Each tribute will also be included in an internet web site for family and others to review, both at the “BOOK OF HONOR” and over the internet. See below. ACCESS TO “BOOK OF HONOR” The “BOOK OF HONOR” with tributes will be created and placed on line in the Hellships Memorial in the Philippines. ACCESS TO INTERNET WEB SITES This internet web site database will be accessible at these web sites: —American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor web site at: http://www.west-point.org/family/adbc/ —The Hellship Memorial web site at: http://www.hellshipsmemorial.org./ Other websites as appropriate and as designated. MANNER OF CREATING: Create a brief document, with text and pictures, honoring a specific person. E-mail your document, if possible, before January 2006 to: John Neiger — “BOOK OF HONOR” Coordinator jjneiger@aol.com or mail to: 4011 Lakeview Parkway Lake of the Woods, Virginia 22508 Any changes to existing tributes can be made using the same procedure as creating the original tribute. No one will edit or change your tribute. QUESTIONS — COMMENTS — SUGGESTIONS: If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions — please contact John Neiger 540-972-0612, e-mail, or mail to the above address. ———————— Memories of Kindness Bring Veteran Back to Philippines “They would fall by the side of the road, only to be shot, but more often bayoneted … There was nothing, nothing we could do but to look straight ahead and keep on walking.” By Grant Segall Plain Dealer Reporter Richard Francies couldn’t stand his first sergeant at Fort Monmouth, N.J. “How far away from here can I get?” Francies asked in 1939. “The Philippines,” he was told. “Put me in for the Philippines!” he replied. Francies liked the country, which seemed as different as possible from his native Cleveland. Still, he was glad in December 1941, when he drew within a week of his departure date for home. Then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and America was dragged into World War II. “Nobody went home,” Francies said. The Philippines fell in April 1942. Over the next 31 ⁄2 years, Francies survived the infamous Bataan Death March, a Japanese “hell ship” and slave labor camps at both ends of the voyage. Yet Francies has returned to the Philippines six times. “I just enjoy the people,” the former technical sergeant said recently at his Cleveland Heights apartment. “They were so good to us.” (Continued on Page 26) Western States Chapter Commander’s Farewell Address Sparks, Nevada — March 17, 2005 First of all, on behalf of our Western States Chapter, ADBC, I want to thank Ralph and Kathie Levenberg for making all these wonderful arrangements. The hotel has been outstanding, the food excellent. I personally thank all of you for attending. It has been suggested that our group should encourage family members to join our group as associate members. Mem - ber ship would be open to descendants of survivors of Bataan & Corregidor. Trudy Real has agreed to be the representative to accomplish this. She has the expertise to get it done. I trust this will be done to increase family participation and also to ensure that our group will continue into the future. It has been my privilege to serve this illustrious group for this second term as your Commander. I wish to call upon my good friend, our next Western States Chapter Commander, Ralph Levenberg to receive on behalf of himself and his wife Kathie, our token of appreciation for the services they have rendered to our group. (Award presented and accepted by Ralph) The next award will be presented to Esther Jennings for her dedication to our late Commander Clinton Jennings who served our Chapter for two terms as Commander. Esther is to be commended also for her efforts on behalf of our Health and Welfare Department, sending cards to the sick and bereaved among us. She also serves as our Associate Secretary. (Award presented and accepted by Esther.) Other awards presented to: William E. Braye for Sea Lion Editor; Andrew Aquila for Secretary; Peter & Audrey Locarnini for Treasurer; Houston Turner for Chaplain. Bernice and I wish you all God’s Speed and a Safe Journey Home! Cmdr. Everett D. Reamer ———————— Memorials Over the years there have been various memorials made to honor the men who served in the Philippines. Some are buildings, some parks, some libraries, some items of interest such as flag poles, monuments, plaques or other memorabilia. I would like to publish them in one issue. Check those old pictures or write up a story for any type of building. I would like to have color. If you have any of the pictures, send them to me for the next issue. Joe Vater, Editor
Hoten POW Camp Camp Hoten No. 1 — unofficial rough-draft chronology 11 November 1942 — 1188 U.S. enlisted men (ordinary soldiers) and 14 officers arrived in Mukden (Shenyang) from Manila via Korean Peninsula as American POWs, sent to POW Camp Hoten No. 1, then a group of old Chinese Army earth huts half underground (an additional 60 English and 40 Australian and New Zealand troops have joined them, live in Barracks No. 13; there are eventually 19 barracks in all) March 1943 — burial of 176 POWs, most of whom died in the first 90 days at Camp Hoten; by summer 1943, a total of 205 have died, more than 17% of the American enlisted men in Camp Hoten July 1943 — the camp is moved to a new location, two-story brick structures c. four miles away, about half a mile from the Mitsubishi Ko-Kan Machine and Tool Factory, a former Ford Co. factory where some of the camp inmates work under Chinese super - vision, disassembling machinery so that Japanese technicians can make blueprints of it; camp inmates also work as farm and construction labor; new camp is an improvement on the old one, and rations are increased slightly, to above starvation level; at this point, 11 American and 2-3 British officers are still alive June 1944 — c. 150 American POWs sent from Camp Hoten to Kamioka, Japan, to work in the lead mines there, as punishment for sabotaging work at the Mitsubishi Factory in Mukden (Linda Goetz Holmes, ‘Unjust Enrichment’) 7 December 1944 — Allied B-29 air raids on Shenyang factories and rail lines drop two bombs within the Camp Hoten perimeter, killing 19 of the POWs, and injuring more than 30 April 1945 — 316 senior officers, orderlies, and four civilians (mostly American, British, and Dutch generals and colonels; senior officer is U.S. Maj. Gen. George M. Parker, Jr.) are moved to Camp Hoten from Camp Chang Chia. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, highest-ranking American POW, and a few close aides and officers, is held elsewhere in Liaoning, at Si’an (Japanese: Seihan), along with Britain’s highest-ranking POW, Gen. A.E. Percival, former commander of Singapore 5 August 1945 — newly-appointed International Committee of the Red Cross head delegate to Tokyo, Dr. Marcel Junod, visits Mukden en route to Tokyo, first visit to Camp Hoten by an ICRC representative 6 August 1945 — Dr. Junod visits Gen. Wainwright at Si’an 8 August 1945 — Russia enters the Pacific War 17 August 1945 — four-man American OSS parachute group arrives in Shenyang 18 August 1945 — low-flying Allied plane scatters leaflets announcing that Japan has surrendered 20 August 1945 — advance Soviet tank units enter Shenyang 9 September 1945 — American POWs leave Camp Hoten No. 1 to return home ———————— To ADBC Members and Descendants Thank you so very much for your prayers, cards, emails and phone calls during this time while Judith and I am fighting my lung cancer, diagnosed right after the Cincinnati convention. The chemotherapy is doing its job and the cancer is currently much reduced in size. The doctors are encouraging me to continue with my plans to host the Valor Tours trip to the Philippines in January for the dedication of the Hellships Memorial. My best to you all. Duane Heisinger Florida Chapter Closing Mr. Joe Vater, PNC Editor, The Quan 18 Warbler Drive McKees Rocks, PA 16136 Dear Joe: The time has come to close the Florida Chapter of the American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor, Inc. This is a sad duty to perform. Our shrinking numbers and lack of attendance forces this action. The members voted to donate what was left in our treasury to the Andersonville Trust, in the hope that the history of the American Prisoners of War experience will forever be available to the public. We have closed our bank account, and a check in the amount of $1,662.17 has been sent to the Andersonville Trust. The Florida Chapter of Defenderettes also closed, and they too voted to donate the remainder of their funds to the Andersonville Trust. Their check in the amount of $959.03 was mailed with ours. The Ladies of the Defenderettes gave their unconditional support to our chapter for many years and we appreciate them more than my words can express. We hope to see our Florida members at the National ADBC Convention in Phoenix, AZ come May 2006. The letterhead this letter is written on has the remaining members in good standing at the time of our closing. Do you or anyone reading this know where we can send our chapter historian’s records? We will pay the cost of packaging and mailing. Respectfully submitted by, Byron Kearbey, Past Secretary Florida Chapter ADBC ———————— Seeking Information August 16, 2005 Dear Sir, In 1955 I worked with a survivor of the Bataan Death March. We were both students in the maintenance school for Gilfillan GCA Radar in Fontana, California. I would like very much to find this friend. His first name was Gene or Eugene. Unfortunately, I cannot remember his last name. Gilfillan Human Resources Dept. would not go back and look in their records. Could you please place this note in the next edition of The Quan? Sincerely, Jerry Figgins A404 300 Willow Valley Lakes Dr. Willow Street, PA 17584 figgins@dejazzd.com NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 2005 — 15
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