Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rainy season added its wet misery to the Philippine fighting, two U.S. armies and their guerrilla allies clumped doggedly through the mud, compressing the Japanese into soggy pockets. Inside these pockets the Japanese continued to resist as well as any army can without help of sea or air power...
...Colonel Wendell W. Fertig, U.S. guerrilla leader in the Philippines, sent for Ruiz. His instructions, direct from General MacArthur: start production of rubber at Pathfinder...
...Emilio Osmeña served with U.S. forces, was captured and executed by the Japanese. Teodoro Osmeña was killed leading a guerrilla band. José Osmeña sought the surrender of U.S. forces in the Far East, was shot by guerrillas on the island of Negros...
...Presently a guerrilla chief appeared. He understood English and the first thing he noticed was a copy of TIME'S Pony Edition sticking from Casey's pocket. 'TIME Magazine' he yelled. 'Now we know something...
...half an hour the guerrilla chief, standing on a rise of ground, read in a ringing voice to the 200-odd-entranced natives all the war news he could find and translate. Filipino eyes glistened; they listened intently to every word...