During the Jap occupation, this building housed the Academy for Bureau of Constabulary Pro-Japanese Philippine soldiers trained to become non-commissioned officers. It was in this building where I worked as a janitor after I gave up my job as Cochero. This place being nearer the apartment of Aning, we returned there from Pandacan. My job […]
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1994 Memoir – 147. Back to the Army
As soon as we had settled, I immediately reported to the Army Headquarters in the Legarda Elementary School Building in Sampaloc, Manila, the same building where I was a janitor of Bureau of Constabulary Academy #3 for non-commissioned officers. From there I was made to report to Camp Murphy (now Camp Emilio Aguinaldo), where I […]
1994 Memoir – 146. Return to Manila
After I got my first pay as Chief, PCAU for the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, at the end of June, 1945, Pat and I decided to return to Manila. We rode a 6×6 Army truck bound for Manila with one bicycle and few belongings. It was a convoy of two trucks scheduled to go to […]