ABIE ABRAHAM WITH
JAPANESE TROOPS  of 150 Soldiers

A year after the Japanese surrendered,  Abie was notified by a Filipino-Japanese native that the Japanese wanted to surrender to Americans, fearing the reprisal from the Filipinos  .In the hills of Orani,  Bataan, where Abie  disinterred many bodies, he got in touch with the Japanese Major. 

Through an interpreter, he said he wanted to surrender his men. Abie told him to be at this post in the jungle and he would have American troops, who were stationed forty miles away, to give them protection from the Filipinos.  

The next day trucks (soldiers from the tank company  arrived to take them to prison camp and back home.  In a ceremony, Abie was honored to receive the Japanese Major's Saber....