Escape From Davao Quotes

“To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.”
― John D. Lukacs, Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

“Slowly, fresh sunbeams poured into the emerald canyon, illuminating their narrow path between the rusted rails. Because of the din of the waking jungle, they did not hear the sound of several feet sliding down the tapered trunks of the giant lauan trees towering several hundred feet above their heads and silently scampering into the undergrowth.”
― John D. Lukacs, Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

“An aurora swirled in the night skies above Bataan, radiating around the smoke-shrouded peaks of the Mariveles Mountains. Intermittent flashes from phosphorus bombs and incendiary shells bathed the jungle in blinding bursts of white light. The rumbling, subterranean tremors had scarcely subsided when American stockpiles of TNT and ammunition dumps were detonated, causing the peninsula to convulse. Thousands of rounds of projectiles, from artillery and mortar shells to rifle bullets, streaked across the sky in arcing rainbows. "Never did a 4th of July display equal it in noise, lights, colors or cost," observed one officer.”
― John D. Lukacs, Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

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― John D. Lukacs, Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War