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Colonel Russell W. Volckmann was a lean West Pointer from Iowa. When Bataan fell in 1942 he took to the hills and organized one of the best guerrilla teams in the Philippines. By the time the U.S. forces came back, Volckmann and his band had already cleared the Japs from a large portion of northwestern Luzon's mountains...
Throughout the Luzon campaign Volckmann and his Ilocanos-short, dark-skinned, sensitive northern Filipinos-worked on their own within the planning orbit of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. With air support they swept around the western and northern coasts of Luzon, ranged down the west bank of the Cagayan River and kept the Japanese nervously watching on every side...
...Volckmann's Ilocanos, aggressive and stealthy, had reasonably good military discipline, permitting their wives and girl friends to come along only when the woods were not too full of Japs. Their own leaders included a guitar-strumming Visayan (major in the Philippine Army) and a dashing, bantam-sized onetime provincial governor and newspaper reporter...
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