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In the northern Philippines, in August 1945, before the Japs surrendered,
there was a cease fire a few days after the atomic bomb was dropped.
The minute the cease fire took place, before the surrender,
a team of about 10  unarmed enlisted men, Jesse White and I included,
were ordered to go openly, behind the lines to check out what was going on.
Photo 9c shows the point our team was suddenly stopped by an armed
Jap officer and Jap enlisted man.  They gave us a note saying,
only if we have official business can we proceed.  Bold as brass
we entered their lines.  The photos 9a through 11d were all taken
in the Jap camp.  I am not in the pictures, but Jesse is talking
to a Jap Col. (you can see white on his shirt) photo 9b.
Note the rubber tree climbing shoes.  Jesse is also in photo
12f and 13a and lots of pictures of Japs giving up.
50,000 gave up where we were, not all to us.
Photos 20a and 20b are of our whole team (less me),
I was injured and made the trip down in an ambulance.
Later we were together again as Team 15 near the South
China Sea in photos 25d and 21b while working with the
same 121 Inf. P.A. on the beach at Luna.  The northern
Luzon group of about 80 under Major Smith (our USATG
Group out of Manila were about 800).  On photos 27a and
27b you can see our L5 airplane on the steel mat runway
at Luna La Union (our home).  On photos 31h and 31i are
our 2 Igroots (head hunters) at Luna.  They were with our
team in the mountains and valuable allies (see photo 15d).
Jesse and I had the adventure of a lifetime in only a little
over 2 years.  If it was happening, we were there.  When
Jesse was ordered home, I drove him the 100 miles to Manila.
It was an amazing adventure for a couple of 19 year olds.

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