Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 55
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Green
55about in this period . . . the Zamboanga period shook
me up and actually put me in the hospital. At the
officers' club, I began to . . . I'd go up and ask
for some Cebu rum.
By the way, I had been flying down to Zamboanga
and had to land . . . our plane had to land--something
was wrong with it--on one of the islands that was not
secured. It was being held only by guerrillas.
There was no American troops in there at all. We
landed on a guerrilla airstrip, and the first person
who met me on getting out of the plane was a little
Filipino with a soda pop bottle full of whiskey that
they had made over there (chuckle). I bought it and
brought it back, but I never did drink it.
But here was the period of time, I guess, that
I began to notice that of just sheer boredom. "Coronet"
was too far behind us, mopping up behind us. Every-
thing more or less had slowed down. There was nothing
to do, so we just had . . . I guess just we played
and swam in the ocean.
How close to the actual surrender did you actually
begin to work on "Coronet?"
I would say that our unit began to work on it in June
or July of 1945.Marcello:
Green:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/56/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.