-4-     Monday, December 18, 1944 At 6:00 a.m. a truck load of clothing, mostly worn out Japanese underwear arrived and was distributed but the amount was insufficient for even one garment per prisoner. I received a pair of long under-drawers. About 10:00 a.m. 100 of the most sickly patients were permitted to leave the tennis court to spend the heat of the day under the shade of a nearby grove of trees. Our ration again consisted of 1 sack of rice for over 1300 men. Some prisoners were regaining hope and were expecting that the entire group would be returned to Bilibid.  Tuesday, December 19, 1944 Scorched by the sun during the day and freezing at night, the men were getting so weak that walking was a difficulty. The daily sack of rice plus a teaspoon full of salt per man still constituted our ration. No medical or other supplies were issued. The Japanese finally allowed the dead to be buried in a shell hole on the south side of the tennis courts toward the bay. Everyone is a mass of bruises and aches.  Wednesday, December 20, 1944 One man, Rice died.  Issued a sack of rice and salt. 30 trucks arrived to take us away - to Bilibid we hoped. 681 moved by truck to the jail at San Fernando, Pampanga, each truck used carrying 40 men plus supplies. 6 men have died to date at the tennis court and were all buried in the same hole south of the courts. A total of 6 sacks of dry rice and 3 sacks of salt had been issued the prisoners since the last cooked meal on the 14th of December.  Thursday, December 21, 1944 One man died in the night. Chaplain Duffy handled burial detail. The remaining personnel at the tennis courts were trucked to a theater building in San Fernando, Pampanga. The group at the jail received two cooked meals of steamed rice totaling 125 grams per person. This was the first cooked meal since December 14th. There are many case of "runs" and dysentery and no medical supplies available. The wounded are not improving due to malnutrition and lack of medicines and dressings. A crust has formed over my head wounds so I think that the sulfanilamide power sprinkled on my scalp at Olongapo is preventing infection. This sulfanilamide was brought off the "Oryoku Maru" by Captain Hanes so I can give thanks to him for a fortunate healing. Edison has the "runs" badly. MacNair, Crawford, Bosworth, Haggerty, Mitchell and many other Corregidor friends are among the 286 no longer with us.  Friday, December 22, 1944 300 grams of steamed rice today with adequate water. Lt. Col. Harry Harper, F.A. died. 15 of the seriously wounded and deathly sick were sent to Bilibid (we understood) by truck, 12 from the jail and 3 from the theatre. Edison, Freney and Peoples were included in the 15. They moved out at 10:00 p.m. I am still part of the hospital group which is arranged in several large cells on one side of the compound. Feeling rather desolate as my last few crumbs of tobacco were stolen during the previous night. There is no longer a normal sense of decency in 90% of the prisoners. It has reduced to a fight for survival and nothing barred.  Saturday, December 23, 1944 300 grams of steamed rice and camotes today, giving everyone two canteens cups full. Everyone is expecting to be moved shortly, and hoping it will be a return trip to Bilibid despite the starvation ration there. Everyone is still practically naked, many have colds, dysentery is breaking out in many previous arrested cases, and the wounded are getting weaker.  Sunday, December 24, 1944 After a night of hectic coughing on the part of most of the prisoners we were awakened at 3:00 a.m. to move out. The two groups from the jail and theatre were joined at the railroad station totaling about 1311 prisoners and 50 or more guards. Of the 1340 accounted for at Olongapo, 10 died at Olongapo, 4 died at San Fernando, Pampanga, and 15 were sent out by truck, presumably to Bilibid.  At 9:00 a.m. we were loaded on 10 small type boxcars loading 120 to 160 men per car. Each car was so crowded that very few could sit down. The heat was unbearable as there was no ventilation except by means of one door which was blocked off by four guards. Some of the more seriously wounded were placed on top of the boxcars for the trip. At about 10:00 a.m. the train finally started and we noted with sinking hearts that we were headed north and not south. Clark Field was undergoing an air raid by American planes as we passed. The train was stopped and the guards got off the train and scattered but kept the prisoners aboard the train. The train was not attacked however and we proceeded to San Fernando, La Union arriving some seventeen hours later. Approximately five prisoners died en route. We arrived after dark and spent the rest of the night sleeping on the concrete of the station platform. This was also another foodless day with no water issue either.