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20 August 45
Company moved to
Refugio Hacienge. The area is pretty good and not too far from town.
24 August
The people of
Refugio are giving dances to the company almost every night and everyone
is pleased with the set up.
26 August 45
At 1430 hr a
surrenderingparty from the Jap army enteredthe company area to make
arrangements for the surrender of the Nakatani Bn. Lt. Sullivan made
arrangements thru Bn. The Japs were pretty beat up and enjoyed the
chow.
27 August 45
First platoon
went ino the hills to expedite surrender.
31 August 45
Japs started
comingin today nine hu ndredthe first day muchoo souveniers.
7 Sept
Today all men
with eighty five points left for home. All the original men are govne
now
17 Sept 45
Two hundredand
fifty Japs entered co to day to surrender. more souveniers. Company
total twenty eight hundred
20 Sept
Co alertedfor
move to Dumaguete
21 Co moved to
Dumaguete
23 Sept 45
Co might go to
Japan Plans later cancelled
Company then
split up Some home Some Japan
10 Nov 45
Left for Japan
aboard LST 772 - 722-
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FOOTNOTES
*
At 0600 on 19 October 1944, convoy MOMA-05 departed Moji for Imari Bay
consisting of TAIHAKU, KOMEI, TENSHO, TAISHO, TATSUURA, TAIYO, ESAHI, DORYU,
PACIFIC, AOKI and SUGIYAMA MARUs and an unidentified ship. The convoy is
carrying about 10,000 reinforcements for the Philippines. On 26 October, the
convoy is attacked by Lt.Cdr. (later
Rear Admiral) Maurice Rindskopf's USS DRUM (SS-228) at 19-30N, 120-44E.
Rindskopf fires three torpedoes by radar bearings at TAISHO MARU and gets two
hits that sink her. She takes down about 1600 men, most of whom belonged to the
57th Independent Brigade and 10th Maritime Advance Battalion. At 0655, Rindskopf
torpedoes and damages TAIHAKU MARU at 19-07N, 120-42E. The forepart sinks,
although the aft part remains afloat. She is successfully beached in Lapoc Bay
and later abandoned. DRUM also attacks TATSUURA and TAIYO MARUs with uncertain
results. At about 0710, Lt.Cdr. Richard W. Peterson's USS ICEFISH (SS-367)
torpedoes TAIYO MARU. A cargo of gasoline she is carrying for "kaiten"
human-torpedoes ignites and sends flames hundreds of feet into the air. At 0730,
TAIYO MARU sinks. On 31 October, 1944 at 0950, KOMEI MARU is torpedoed and sunk
by Lt.Cdr. Enrique D. Haskin's USS GUITARRO (SS-363) at 15-18N, 119-50E. At
1010, PACIFIC MARU is also torpedoed and sunk by GUITARRO at 15-15N, 119-56E.
(Source:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/CH-28_t.htm accessed 20 June 2009)
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He evidently is confusing the
battleship Yamato, (65,027 tonnes) sunk en route to Okinawa on 7 April
1945, with the battleship Musashi (68,200 tonnes), sunk on 24 October 1944
during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Both were super-battleships, and their
as designed anti-aircraft complement was staggering - nearly 200
anti-aircraft guns could be brought to bare against any airborne attack.
***
The Musashi
, the largest battleship ever built, sank without ever firing her
18.1-inch guns at enemy ships. Over 1000 officers and men were lost. Of the 112 officers
39 were lost and 984 men were lost of the crew of 2287; therefore, some
1,376 officers and men were saved by destroyers. There is no indication
of how many of these survivors were carried to Corregidor.
