Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 74
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kinds of reports. We would talk everyone through:
"You go to line A, line B. Answer this. Do this
on it." One of the things said, "Now write out a
telegram to whomever you want to send it. Write it
out right here. You put the address on it. We'll
collect them, and we'll send them at our cost to
your loved one." Then they would get up from there,
and they'd go to a battery of typewriters where the
clerks behind the typewriters would take their names,
ranks, and serial numbers for call on the next air-
plane that would be available. They would call their
name out to get on the airplane. They called them
airplane manifests, is what they called them then.
This was just a system that Major Allen and other
people working with us worked out. As I look back on
it, I wouldn't improve on it because it worked so well.
We also realized that there needed to be some sort of
emotion. There needed to be some sort of "thank you,"
some sort of something, to these prisoners-of-war who
had been captured at Corregidor, Bataan, Java, Wake
Island, various places like that.
The evacuation primarily was by . . . I'd say
it was three-fourths was by railroad. They would come
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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/m1/75/?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.