Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his air strength spread thin (see p. 19) and his ground soldiers scattered from hell to breakfast over the southwest Pacific, the Jap's job was a big one-and Filipino troops were making it bigger every day by raiding him from Davao to the beachheads of Panay. If they had air-force help from Australia, they might make the job too big for the Jap to handle...
...Virtually all of the 2,300 of the New Mexico National Guard had been in the Philippines. Mothers and wives met from Deming to Rosewell to Santa Fe, still hoped their coast artillerymen were on Corregidor. Salinas, Calif, lost a company of infantry soldiers; California mothers wept with Filipino women whose sons were veterans in the Scouts, or lean-faced youngsters just out of the West Point grey of the Philippine Military Academy...
...days Cebu's people had taken to the hills every time a ship appeared in the roadstead. After each false, alarm, lean, grey, Lieut. Colonel Howard J. Edmands and his little denim-clad Filipino M.P.s tramped back from the dock areas through the street, jaunty and unafraid with their rifles and their single machine gun. The remains of Cebu's population quieted down, and waited...
...Future. While they did, Corregidor heard from other U.S. soldiers, white and Filipino. Far north in Luzon, a guerrilla band burst out of the woods and smashed a Jap truck train. Through the mountainous reaches of the island came rumblings of other raids, of soldiers organizing civilians into the kind of warfare the Japanese in the islands fear most...
When MacArthur withdrew to Bataan he took with him enough of Manila's dismantled station KZRH to make, on reassembly, a 1,000-watt medium-wave transmitter. Bataan thus became a fairly powerful rebroadcast point for short-wave programs from the U.S. The Japanese confiscated all the Filipino short-wave receivers they could find; but to have confiscated other radios would have interfered with their own propaganda purposes. That suited Competitor MacArthur...