Rigara, Benton, 215
Rio de Janeiro, 58
Risdon, Dale, 256, 268
Ritchie, Bert, 179
Rivera, Fernando, 23
Rizal, José, 40
Rizal Park, 39–40
Rizzo, Joe, 123–24
Roces, Alejandro, Jr., 168–69
Roces, Alejandro, Sr., 169
Rocha, John, 157
Romulo, Carlos P., 33–34, 274
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 11, 27, 29, 48, 49, 90, 111, 190
Roosevelt, Theodore, 33
Rowley, Charles Grant, 111
Rowley, John Martin, 111
Roxas, Mamerto Acuña, 10, 69–71
arrest and imprisonment of Claire, 213, 223–24
guardianship and protection of Claire, xiv, 44–45, 62, 69–72, 82
illness of Claire, 175–76
Japanese occupation of Manila, 69–72, 76–77, 88
post-war life of, 293
Roxas, Manuel Acuña, xiv, 10, 69–70
alleged execution of, 92–94
arrest attempt of, 180–81
house arrest of, 158
post-war life of, 293
underground movement and, 158, 159, 181, 198
Roxas, Mercedes, 10, 71
Saipan, 215, 247
Saito, Jiro, 79
Sakakida, Richard C., 186, 323n
San Juan Hill, 33
Santa Potenciana School, 33
Santos, Manuel, 292
Santo Tomas Internment Camp, 29–32, 87, 153–54
Claire’s care packages, 83–85, 110, 154
food rations, 30, 82–83, 187, 203–4
liberation of, 246–49
Louise DeMartini at, 82, 84–85, 149, 154, 187
Sato, Yoshikazu, 239
Schwartz, Jack, 123, 207
Second Philippine Republic, 179–80, 189–90
Selander, Lesley, 277
Senate Judiciary Committee, 272
Sever, Frank S., 279, 280
Shoreham Hotel, 101
Shreve, Arthur Lee, Jr., 140, 143, 206, 235–37, 245–46
Sides, Hampton, xi, xii
Sixth Army, U.S., 233–34, 243–44, 247, 254
Sixth Ranger Battalion, U.S., 244–45
slapping, 90, 106
Snyder, Ramona, 181, 194–95, 230
Sobreviñas family camp, 35–36, 149, 168
Battle of Bataan and, 46–47
Claire at, 35–37, 41–47, 60–61, 62, 212, 281
Solomon Islands Campaign, 100, 135, 202
“Some of These Days” (song), 95
Spanish-American War, ix, 25–26, 33, 56, 184
Spivak, Lawrence, 262
Spyron Operation, 229
Stauffer, Royal L., 263–65
Straughn, Hugh, 182–83, 184–86, 194, 269–70
Straus, S. Charles, 263–65
Subic Bay, 236
sulfa drugs, 52, 169, 175
Sunsheen, Santiago, 82
Supreme Court of the Philippines, 156
Surrender of Japan, 267
secret kill order, 238–39
Sutago, Mary B., 209
Tagalog, 22, 33, 35
Tambor, USS, 103, 104
Tanaka, Shizuichi, 157
Tarzan, 164
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), xiii
Templeton, Herbert, 274
Terada, George, 79
Terowie Station, 49
tetanus, 174–75, 224, 255, 269
31st Infantry Regiment, 12, 16, 17, 39–40, 255
This Is Your Life (radio program), xii, 274, 288
Thorp, Claude A., 53, 182–84, 185–86, 269
Threatt, Fred
at Cabanatuan, 131–33, 205–8, 235–36, 245
capture of, 206–7
Oryoku Maru transport, 235–37
Tiffany, Frank L., 125
at Cabanatuan, 132, 140, 141–43, 205, 206, 221–22
at Camp O’Donnell, 114, 121–22
Toho Motion Picture Company, 172
Tojo, Hideki, 88, 91–92, 151–56, 215
Tokyo (Doolittle) Raid, 5, 55, 100
Tomayasu, Hitoshi, 31
Tom’s Dixie Kitchen, 195
torture, 29, 54, 55, 56, 68, 87, 88, 89, 178, 213, 225–26
Tossino, Capt., 129, 207–8
Trinidad, Antonio, 215
Truman, Harry S, 271, 278
Tsubaki Club, 95–98, 173–77
arrest of Claire, 211–13
Battle of Manila, 253, 256–57
consorting with an occupying soldier, 165
fan dance, 134–37, 261
founding of, 76–78
gathering supplies, 97–98, 125–26, 166–67
illness of Claire, 173–77
intelligence gathering at, 3–6, 95–96, 138–39, 163–67, 198–200, 261, 289
opening night of, 78–82
typhoon (November 1943), 186–87, 188
Tsuneyoshi, Yoshio, 116–17, 118
Tsurumi, R., 31–32
Tucker, Sophie, 95
Tunis, 153
Turkey Shoot, 228
Typhoon Allyn, 186–88
United Nations Command (UNC), 278
University of Manila, 76
University of Santo Tomas, 26, 29–32. See also Santo Tomas Internment Camp
University of the Philippines, 26, 29, 86
Ural Maru, 56, 58
U.S. Embassy, 253
Utinsky, Jack, 110–13, 121, 122–23
Utinsky, Margaret Doolin “Peggy,” 110–15
aboard SS John Lykes, 262–65
aftermath of war, 256–57
alias and code name of, 113, 119–20, 126, 177–78
arrest and ransom of, 177–79
arrest of Claire, 212–13, 214, 227
background of, 111
caring for Dian, 174, 212–13, 224, 227, 242, 255, 256, 263, 272
celebrity of Claire and, 267, 268, 270, 285
Clavier v. US, 285–86
collapse of, 126–30
death of husband Jack, 122–23, 141–43
guerrilla nursing, 224, 242–43
hospitalization and surgery of, 178–79, 199
illness of Claire, 173–75, 177, 199
Miss U, 272–73, 290
orders to leave Manila, 110–13
paranoia of, 167–69, 199–200
post-war life of, 266, 271, 272–73, 290
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 270, 271
restitution claims of Claire, 271, 285–86
restitution payment to, 270, 286
rivalry and hostility with Claire, 174, 262–63
supply and relief operations of, 113–15, 118–20, 126–28
Vargas, Jorge B., 4, 91, 153
Vásquez, Gerardo, 178–79
Vera Reyes, Franco, 193–96
Verde Island, 192
Villamor Hall, 29, 86
Visayan Islands, 99
Wack Wack Golf Club, 156
Wainwright, Jonathan M., 111, 112
Wake Island, 20, 100, 214
War Claims Commission, 271–72
War Plan Orange, 19
Washington, SS, 111–12
water-boarding, 56, 88, 225–26
water buffalo, 45, 133, 176
Weeks, Henry, 31
Whitaker, Gene, 108
Whitcomb, Edgar D., 85–86, 87, 178
White, Horton, 243–44
Wilkinson, Rupert, 204, 249
Williams, George, 145�
�46, 148, 151
Willoughby, Charles, 101, 112
Wilson, Sam, 159–60
Wood, Leonard, 33
Yamada, 108–9, 175
Yamagata, Tsuyuo, 237
Yamanuchi, Pete, 57
Yamashita, Tomoyuki, 230, 252
Yeager, Frederick, 142
Young, Charles, 251–52, 274
Young, Frederic W., 279, 280, 285–86
Yuma, Clara, 138–39
Zambales Mountains, 241–42
Zigzag, 189, 214, 218
Zig Zag Pass, 241–42
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