and within three weeks the japanese were marching into new manila and the philippines clerc ran off to the hills as some percentage of the of population and then finding himself some ways but the other two people that i write about is also in manila, one of them is john boone is a corporal in the army, and retreated with general macarthur around christmas eve 1941 and realize that it is impossible to defend manila and 35,000 odd american troops and 60,000 odd filipino troops for the u.s. army retreated to japan and then fought ferociously -- ferociously for months with no supplies hoping they would arrive and reinforcements never came and they surrendered april april 1942. but john boone unlike many people that surrendered ran up to the hills and tried to put together what he would do next so that is the second person in the third person was chip parsons the expatriate american from tennessee living most of his life in manila and when the war broke out in the secret was out only with a the military and the commander said raise your right hand you are back in the navy. over the next mon