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Virginia Hansen Holmes’ father, Charles Hansen, was the plant superintendent of the East Mindanao Mining Company in Surigao. With him, Virginia, her mother and three siblings, lived as a happy American family before the war. Virginia was nine days…

This work tells the story of Wendell Fertig, guerrilla leader in Mindanao. By a professional writer who worked for four years together with Col. Fertig, the story is told in the form of a novel, although the author claims to have tried to maintain…

The author, the first Filipina professional journalist, and her husband, lawyer Antonio Molina Bautista, joined an underground movement in Manila during the Japanese occupation. The group, called "Free Philippines," sought to counter Japanese…

Memoir by a Philippine Scout cavalry officer (with the celebrated 26th Cavalry Regiment) who led the last horse charge in US Army history, in Morong, Bataan. Details Ramsey’s (and his regiment’s) operations in Bataan; the surrender, his escape and…

Villamor was the top Filipino fighter pilot before and during the war. He commanded the 6th Pursuit Squadron of the Philippine Army Air Corps, equipped with obsolete P-26 fighters. Despite the suicidal odds, he led his squadron against modern…

This book deals with the saga of Commander Charles “Chick” Parsons, legendary intelligence agent and liaison man between MacArthur and the guerrillas in the Philippines.

Parsons was a reserve US Navy officer managing the Luzon Stevedoring…

Personal memoir, aided by an American historian, of an American Air Corps sergeant who saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field, fought in Bataan, escaped the Death March, with the aid of Filipinos, and joined the guerrillas in Central Luzon. Hunt…

Frank Grady (a Captain at that time) was with the US Army’s cryptographic department in the Philippines in 1941 until the surrender of Corregidor. He was responsible for encoding and decoding all the important messages sent to and from Manila and…

This book tells the story of Estel Myers, a US Navy corpsman who arrived in the Philippines just before the start of the war. He was assigned to the naval hospital in Cañacao, Cavite, and hard-pressed to tend to the large numbers of wounded from the…

This book is actually the personal memoir of Edmond Babler, which Daniels edited and annotated.

Babler joined the US Marine Corps during the years of the Great Depression in the US, and was sent to China to join the 4th Marine Regiment. The 4th…