MENU

of

SECOND COMPANY, AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP,

CAMP CASISANG, MALAYBALAY, BUKIDNON,

ISLAND OF MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

f o r

SUNDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 1942

ISSUED IN JOINT CELEBRATION OF THE ORGANIZATION DAYS

of    the

HEADQUARTERS & HEADQUARTERS SQUADRON, FIFTH AIR BASE GROUP

(15 September)

and the

TWENTY-EIGHTH BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H), FEAF

(21 September)

Chicken Fried Steak     Filipino Rice     Candied Sweet Potatoe

Steak Gravy     Hot Rolls     Indian Relish

Banana Cream Pie     Coffee, Milk & Sugar

MESS PERSONNEL.

Mess Officer

First Lieutenant Albert T. Chase, Infantry

Hq & Hq Sq, 5th Air Base Group     28th Bombardment Sq (H), FEAF

Mess Sergeants

    Tech Sgt Le Roy D. Atkinson        Tech Sgt Harold J. Glass

Cooks

    Pvt 1cl Herbert S. Barton          Corporal Oscar M. Powell

    Pvt 1cl Stanley J. Paluch          Pvt 1cl Walter L. Dakan

    Pvt 1cl Orbon G. Price             Pvt 1cl Roy J. Hughes

    Corp. Kenneth K. Morris

Bakers

    Pvt 1cl Clifford M. Lynch          Pvt 1cl Edward A. Barber

OFFICIAL RATION ISSUE OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY

FOR PRISONERS OF WAR, EFFECTIVE 8 SEPTEMBER 1942

          ISSUED DAILY                      ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY

    Rice         300 grams per man    Milk, canned  200 grams per man

    Flour, wheat 250 grams per man    Starch         40 grams per man

    Beef fresh   140 grams per man    Sugar          20 grams per man

    Vegetables   150 grams per man

    Beans, mongo  20 grams per man

    Lard          30 grams per man          ISSUED WEEKLY

    Sugar         15 grams per man    Fish, canned  196 grams per man

    Salt          20 grams per man

    Wood         600 grams per man

    NOTE:  1 ounce equials approsimately 28.3 grams.

    Items on the menu not appearing on the ration issue were purchased with funds collected from the men, as were a number of items of issue if which excess amounts were used.  Stocks of some items of issue have been saved for the occasion.