Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clambered out of a truck, they were properly bewildered. They didn't know exactly where they were, or why. They only knew that they had volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty. They did not know that some of them would soon be guerrilla leaders in the Burma jungles, social scientists in London, bridge dynamiters or underground agents in some enemy-occupied city. This comfortable country estate, some 40 minutes out of Washington in the gently rolling Virginia hills, did not look hazardous. The 18 men did not know that it was the Office of Strategic Services' Station...
...summer of 1942, Sergeant Nano Lucero and 80 other U.S. soldiers lived in a mountain hideout near Manila. Their food was smuggled in by friendly Filipinos. Among those who came bearing gifts were a young woman named Romana Romero, her sister and her brother. When word came over the guerrilla grapevine that the Japanese were on the way, Romana was the first to give warning...
Growth of the Guerrillas. Obviously Franco preferred troubles abroad to troubles at home, but at home they were mounting too. In the mountains of Andalusia, the slopes northeast and northwest of Madrid, and the foothills of the Pyrenees, guerrilla forces, operating in 21 areas, had grown increasingly bold since...
...discovery that Russians are people; Report on the Russians, William L. White's controversial discovery that Russia is not all it is cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report on a supply front which has currently become a war front; American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Ira Wolfert; On to Westward, Robert Sherrod; The Vigil of a Nation, Lin Yutang; Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein; Forever China, Robert Payne...
...both had changed immeasurably since his prewar term (1937-39) as U.S. High Commissioner. The ruins of Philippine economy were almost as visible as the ghastly wreckage of Manila. Business was virtually paralyzed, black markets had shot prices out of sight, and a confusion of currencies- prewar money, guerrilla money, invasion money - complicated all trading. Filipinos stood sullenly by without credit while the old Spanish business families and the Chinese merchants did the best they could with what opportunities they could find...