Ann (Hodges) RobinsonReminiscences 1941-1945

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Ann (Hodges) RobinsonReminiscences 1941-1945

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00498/00498-P.html

Typescript autobiographydescribing the Robinsons' escape from the Japanese army during the conquest ofthe Philippines.

eng,

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Robinson, Don, of the Philippine Islands.

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Robinson, William Doniphan

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Robinson, Ann (Hodges)

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Ann Hodges of Dallas, Texas married University of Texas football player William Doniphan (“Mogul”) Robinson around 1910. They subsequently emigrated to the Philippines, where they operated a copra plantation on Basilan island, across the Basilan Strait from the town of Zamboanga on Mindanao. In early 1942 the Robinsons abandoned their plantation as the Imperial Japanese Navy conquered the Philippine islands. From 1942 until early 1945 they lived in hiding from the Japanese occupation, changing t...