Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were still an estimated 30,000 Japs scattered throughout the Islands; U.S. and Filipino troops were burning and grenading them out of caves and jungle hideaways. Said the communiqué: "Some minor isolated action of a guerrilla nature in the practically uninhabited mountain ranges may occasionally persist, but this great land mass of 115,600 square miles, with a population of 17,000,000, is now freed of the invader...
...turned to the driver of my carabao cart, a sturdy Filipino wood cutter named Panteleon Manahan...
...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...
...Japanese had confiscated stocks belonging to the colony, then left the lepers to their fate. During the occupation more than 2,000 of the prewar total of 5,000 patients died of starvation or in attempts to escape. A Filipino doctor was beheaded for trying to smuggle out a message...
...Japanese could see the end. From a Filipino just escaped from Japanese-held territory came word that General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime conqueror of the Philippines, had decided not to imitate other Jap commanders by remaining to die with his trapped troops. The general, together with José P. Laurel, quisling president of the Philippine puppet government, departed suddenly for Japan...