There will be a book sale. All three books will be available at the end of the program and just reminder also that a portion of the sale of each book goes into the virginia festival of the book program itself. The sessions are being recorded so during the question and answer period this is important because of the reporting of the programs. Please raise your hand and one of the volunteers of the festival will hand you a handheld microphone so your question can be heard and paid for however it hits the broadcast. The reason we have a wonderful program, features jan herman, the author of the lucky few the fall of saigon and the rescue mission of the uss kirk. This will be the order of their presentation. Second to speak will be general ira hunt, losing vietnam, how america abandoned Southeast Asia. He is a retired Major General and moderated his last book at the book festival. The chief medical historian, Frank Leith Jones, has offered offered 7 books for military history. And finally, F
Bainbridge expanded park opens after undergoing 4 years of reconstruction
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Published February 22, 2021, 12:33 AM
WALA LANG
Seniors old enough remember cannon booms, smoke, and flashes of light reaching Dewey Boulevard from across the bay, from Bataan and Corregidor where Filipino and American soldiers were making a stand against Japanese invaders. That was exactly 79 years ago in February 1942.
Manila and Clark Field were bombed by the Japanese on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941. War had begun and President
Manuel L. Quezon and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur evacuated government and the military high command to Corregidor on Dec. 26, just before the Japanese entered Manila the following week on Jan. 2.