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The
Final Battle of Battery Chicago,
Contrary to Ben D. Waldron's bunk, there wasn't one.
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John Lindgren
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► There is no record of this in the Moore Report. Had the balloon been shot down, it would have been accredited. |
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NOTES ON SOURCES This report of action is originally via Ms. Karol Ames, the daughter of the late Capt. Godfrey R Ames, Co. Battery C (Chicago), 80th CAC and appears in an ADBC Newsletter February 1994 (Andrew Miller, Historian.) The document's author, Capt Ames, was a P.O.W. at Cabanatuan Camp No 1. The original document itself was buried at Cabanatuan when Capt. Ames was selected to go to Japan. He was on the ill-fated Oryuku Maru/Enoura Maru/Brazil Maru journey, and was one of the very few who made it to Japan - but he died two days after arrival in Muji. Karol Ames, incidentally, was born on Corregidor on March 18, 1940 and along with other dependants of the garrison, was sent back to the U.S. before the war started. I'm not against Ben Waldron selling books, and this exposé is not likely to stop him. But with passages in it like the one quoted, it should be prominently labelled "FICTION". Read it for a yarn if you need to, but don't confuse it as history, or think that Waldron deserves any special admiration that sets him apart from all the Corregidor survivors. He was there, that should have been enough for him, it would have been sufficient for an accurate book, but it is no excuse to foist this fiction on an unsuspecting readership.
The Ames
article comes to us from John Lindgren.
The Waldron text comes to us via Al McGrew, who keeps a watchful eye over us on behalf of
his diminishing group of Defenders & Survivors. He is loath to generate
verbiage for personal gain.
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