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...addition to Chace the sophomores are Brad Smith, a capable 130-pounder who was 5-1 with the freshmen last year; Howard Durfee (7-1), at 137 pounds; Brian Conley (8-0-1), who beat out last year's starter, John Daniels at 147; and Lamar Fertig...
They Fought Alone, by John Keats. The story of the American and Philippine guerrillas who stayed on Mindanao in 1942 under the inventive leadership of Colonel Wendell Fertig. A rewarding narrative by the author of The Insolent Chariots...
They Fought Alone, by John Keats. The story of the American and Philippine guerrillas who stayed on Mindanao in 1942 under the inventive leadership of Colonel Wendell Fertig. A rewarding narrative by the author of The Insolent Chariots...
...Under Fertig's inventive leadership, the guerrillas governed entire provinces, printed their own money, ran their trucks on alcohol distilled from coconut beer, even maintained a miniature but useful navy. Most important was probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur...
John Keats, a critic of suburbia and the auto business (The Crack in the Picture Window; The Insolent Chariots), might seem an improbable chronicler of this episode in wartime bravery. For many readers, his superslick style and self-confessed "literary license" ("Dona Carmen looked up at Fertig, the candlelight glinting in her dark hair") is about as fitting as chrome brightwork on a Jeep. Nonetheless, working with official records and with Fertig himself, who lives today in Colorado, Author Keats has produced a compelling and rewarding tale of endurance and character...