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Originally Posted by Boreas
The night before the invasion would have been the night of December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor had already been attacked. It's likely that your grandfather was evacuated on the strength of that and perhaps because American PBYs had spotted the invasion fleet headed to the Philippines.
John
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I suspect that he was referring to the night before the attack of Pearl Harbor. My grandfather isn't likely to make such an obvious mistake since he wrote about it in real time. The PI was attacked on the 8 December 1941 local time which was hours after the Pearl attack on December 7 local time IIRC. My grandfather asserts that his ship left the PI the night before the Pearl attack which would make it December 6th at Pearl and December 7th in Cavite.