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Show THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Volume 11, Issue XII Page 19 15 June 2000 MEMORIES cont. from page 18 army of men. Next I went to Manila where -stayed until the war ended. There we had the privilege of going in and opening up a prisoner of war camp. The I prisoners were about starved to death and were in rags. We released them and they were sent home. He would starve the Japanese out and work on destroying their ships. The war ended and we came back to San Francisco. All the men went “into town to party. I said, “No, I’m not going. I’m going to stay here.” We had been told that it would be two weeks before we would get back to Utah. | went to bed and about two o’clock in the morning, somebody shook me and said, “You Captain Sorenson?” I said, “Yes.” Manila had been bombed so badly that we spent quite a long time rebuilding roads and airstrips for planes to land. Clark Air Base was there and they needed a place for the big planes to land. Our first job was to get the base back in shape so they could use it. The big name bands and entertainers would come around and entertain troops all over the world. Bob Hope was one of the leaders of the entertainment groups that came over. Being in the core of engineers we would build big stages. We would cut coconut trees I grabbed my bedroll and made that train. The next morning I started walking up through the train looking for the dining car to get something to eat. | saw a head hanging over the bench. 1 would hold a thousand people. brother’s head.” I went up and looked down and made seats out [of] them that While we were watching the show word came that Japan had surrendered. They didn’t tell us until after the show ~and then they announced that the war was over. If you’ve never seen a cou- ple of thousand men go wild, you should have seen them that night. Our outfit landed with the infantry five different times from New Guinea up to the Philippines and in five landings against the enemy we never lost a single man in action. I give this credit to the way General MacArthur fought (t,h}war.‘/ Japan would put soldiers on ne 1sland then skip an island and put them on another island. McArthur [MacArthur] knew where the Japanese He said, “Well, there’s a train leav- ing that’s going through Utah. one seat left.” you can.” thought, It has If you want to take it “That sure looks like Home from the Philippines and he had come all the way from Japan, and we met on the same train heading for Utah. It was the day before Christmas when we made it home. | had been gone for four years. I was very proud to have been able to serve my country. | received the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service. 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