00:00The forgotten terror of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II
00:05will not be forgotten, especially those who experienced being a hostage.
00:09One of them, I will tell you who helped him to be saved.
00:14Witness, JP Sorian.
00:18Here in Kalamazoo, Michigan in America,
00:21I met one of the young men who was saved when the Japanese attacked the Philippines.
00:31Dean Hawk is now 85 years old, founder and owner of the Michigan News Agency.
00:39Yes, this has been marvelous.
00:42My mother, my sister and I were living in Baguio until the Japanese first Pearl Harbor
00:52and then the next day they took Clark Field,
00:54all the planes out from the Southeast Asian Air Force at Clark Field
01:00and by the next month the Philippines were invaded of course.
01:05That is Bataan and Corregidor.
01:08They were brought to the University of Santo Tomas in Manila
01:13which served as the largest camp or internment camp for the Americans and Filipino Japanese.
01:21But they were soon taken back to their father who became the guerrilla warfare commission.
01:27At a young age, Dean learned to establish himself in the field within 3 years.
01:34This is where he met the other Filipino youth who was with him in his studies with the help of his mother.
01:41When the US General Douglas MacArthur's force returned to the Philippines,
01:47Dean found hope that he could be saved from the Japanese.
01:51But it was heard by the Japanese forces and they were lined up to be shot.
01:57But before the Japanese forces could start their plan to wipe out the people in the field,
02:03the American soldiers and the Filipino guerrillas arrived.
02:09The reason that I am alive is because the Filipinos helped the Americans liberate us
02:16and they got to us an hour before we were actually going to be shot down by the Japanese.
02:21We were lined up for that and the American tanks got there earlier than thought
02:28because the Filipinos helped them and that is why I am still alive.
02:34And from escaping to the Philippines and coming here to America,
02:37Dean did not return to the Philippines because it was too painful for him.
02:41But according to Dean, the love of the Filipinos will continue to live on in his heart.
02:47From Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA and for GMA Integrated News,
02:52JP Soriano, your Saksi.
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