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Chapter I – Fresh Caught in San Diego
Chapter II – Pearl Harbor Bound
Chapter III Holland
Chapter IV – Manila
Chapter V – CABANATUAN
Chapter VI – Dapecol (B.T.E.)
Chapter VII Dapecol (A.T.E.)
Chapter VIII – Changing Scenery
Chapter IX – Bilibid
Chapter X – Fort McKinley
Chapter XI – Bilibid Again
Chapter XII – Freedom
Chapter XIII – Homeword Bound
Chapter XIV – The Golden Gate and Beyond
Chapter XV – My Home, Sweet Home
Journal 3
Journal 4
April 12 (1944) – Leland’s Birthday
May 10, 1944 – Poem – My (our) 40th Birthday
May 14, 1944 (Mother’s Day)
May 10, 1944 – Poem – My (our) 40th Birthday
July 1, 1944: To My Mother (on her 77th birthday)
New Years, 1944
August 1, 1944 – To Rosie (back from Manila)
Aug. 22, 1944 (our 18th Wedding Anniversary)
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“Captivity: The Extreme Circumstance”
San Bernardino Sun Article – 1943
Chaplain Earl R. Brewster Receives Bronze Star
Jack Hawkins USMC Officer: Heroic conduct of Chaplain Earl Ray Brewster
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Barbed Wire Chaplain (Round Trip to Hell)
In Memory of Earl Ray Brewster (1904-1979) – WWII Prisoner of War, U.S. Navy
Handmade Cardboard Journal 5 – Chaplain Earl Ray Brewster
Beginning April 1944
April 12 (1944) – Leland’s Birthday
by
Andrew Brewster
May 10, 1944 our 40th Birthday
by
Andrew Brewster
May 14, 1944 (Mother’s Day)
by
Andrew Brewster
May 10, 1944 – Poem – My (our) 40th Birthday
by
Andrew Brewster
July 1, 1944: To My Mother (on her 77th birthday)
by
Andrew Brewster
New Years, 1944
by
Andrew Brewster
August 1, 1944 – To Rosie (back from Manila)
by
Andrew Brewster
Aug. 22, 1944 (our 18th Wedding Anniversary)
by
Andrew Brewster
December 15, 1941
by
Andrew Brewster
Cabanatuan Prison Camp – (Tying up Loose Ends for Rosie)
by
Andrew Brewster
Personal Effects Aboard The [U.S.S.] Holland
by
Andrew Brewster
Highlights from Dec 2, 1941 (to Rosella Brewster)
by
Andrew Brewster
Spanish Notes
by
Andrew Brewster
My Will
by
Andrew Brewster
To Leonard on his 6th Birthday
by
Andrew Brewster
To Leland – Just on General Principles – October 12, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
A General Prayer – April 19, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
A Pacific Prayer (Feb. 1942)
by
Andrew Brewster
To Rosie – On the Eve of our Departure from Cabantuan __to? (Oct 10, 1942)
by
Andrew Brewster
Rosie’s 39th Birthday (March 22, 1944)
by
Andrew Brewster
Glossary of Naval Terms – by R.E.B. (presumably Earl Ray Brewster)
by
Andrew Brewster
Thanksgiving, 1943 Poem – Earl Ray Brewster
by
Andrew Brewster
Standing in Line – Earl Ray Brewster
by
Andrew Brewster
Poem Adapted from The 23rd Psalm – Earl Ray Brewster
by
Andrew Brewster
Poem Adapted From the 13th of 1st Corinthians
by
Andrew Brewster
Poem Adapted from Galatians 6: 1-10 Earl Ray Brewster 10/20/42
by
Andrew Brewster
Principles of Jesus
by
Andrew Brewster
To My Wife (Rosella Mae Brewster) – Mar 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
To Leland & Leonard – As They Start the New School Year – Sept 15, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
“Debtors” – by Chaplain Earl Ray Brewster
by
Andrew Brewster
Poem Adapted from The First Psalm by Earl Ray Brewster
by
Andrew Brewster
To Leland (my [?] yr. old son) March 10, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
Leonard’s 7th Birthday – Oct 30
by
Andrew Brewster
To Leonard (my 5 yr. old son) Mar. 21, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
Thanksgiving 1943 – to Rosie
by
Andrew Brewster
Christmas, 1943
by
Andrew Brewster
To My Mother – March 28, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
Easter 1942 – WWII Journal Entry Earl Ray Brewster
by
Andrew Brewster
Blackouts – Poem WWII Journal Entry
by
Andrew Brewster
To My Twin Sister Pearl – on our 38th Birthday – May 10, 1942
by
Andrew Brewster
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Barbed Wire Chaplain (Round Trip to Hell)
Chapter I – Barbed Wire Chaplain – (Round Trip to Hell)
Chapter II – Pear Harbor Bound
Chapter III Holland
Chapter IV – Manila
Chapter V – CABANATUAN
Chapter VI – Dapecol (B.T.E.)
Chapter VII Dapecol (A.T.E.)
Chapter VIII – Changing Scenery
Chapter IX – Bilibid
Chapter X – Fort McKinley
Chapter XI – Bilibid Again
Chapter XII – Freedom
Chapter XIII – Homeword Bound
Chapter XIV – That Golden Gate and Beyond
Chapter XV – My Home, Sweet Home
Cardboard Journal
Canvas Journal
Account of Jack Hawkins, USMC Officer