HEROES: From the Grave

When the news came, Mrs. Ralph Hubbard was at Oklahoma City's Crippled Children's Hospital reading to polio victims. Nurse's Aide Hubbard dashed out, ran all the way to the Culbertson School and right into the First Grade. There she gave her son Joe the news: his father was safe.

On the night of Jan. 30, Major Ralph Hubbard and the other prisoners of Pangatian Camp waited as they had waited for months—ever since they had seen the first white-starred bombers over Luzon. They could only guess at what was happening now in the...

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