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BOOKS, RESEARCH PAPERS, MOVIES AND VIDEOS

BOOKS

American Guerrillas – From the French and Indian Wars to Iraq and Afghanistan – How Americans Fight Unconventional Wars, Thomas D. Mays, Lyons Press; April 2017

They Fought Alone, John Keats, Secker & Warburg, London

Same book as a book of the month club selection.

They Fought Alone, John Keats, J. B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia and New York

Return to the Philippines, Rafael Steinberg, World War II, Time-life Books Alexandria, Virginia

American Guerrilla -The Forgotten Heroics Of Russell W. Volckmann – The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army Against the Japanese, And Became the True “Father” Of Army Special Forces, Mike Guardia, Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Newbury

My Faraway Home – An American Family’s WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in Jungles of the Philippines, Mary Mckay Maynard, The Lyons Press, Guilford, Ct

Fugitives – Evading and Escaping the Japanese, Bob Stahl, the University Press of Kentucky

You’re No Good To Me Dead – Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines, Bob Stahl, Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland

Rice and Salt – a History of the Defense and Occupation of Mindanao During World War II, Brigadier General John Hugh McGee, the Naylor Company, San Antonio, Texas

Guerilla Daughter by Virginia Hansen Holmes. Kent State University Press.(2009). Memoirs that detail the extraordinary efforts of Ginger’s mother and father, to protect 7 year old Ginger, her 11 year old sister to evade capture, through repeated movements across the island, the generous efforts of many Filipinos to help them. Includes many details about her mining engineer father, Charles Hansen who assumed an Officer commission in the American Guerrillas of Mindanao (AGOM), managed division supplies, and the efforts of her 3 brothers, the two youngest were well under age of 18 and became accomplished soldiers and guerilla fighters by end of WWII.

Guerilla Padre (1946). By Father Joseph Edward Haggerty, Catholic Jesuit, on Mindanao till 1945. Longmans Green Company. Details Father Haggerty’s memoirs and his decision to remain on Mindanao after the surrender, followed by 4 years of clerical ministering to and supporting the Filipino people under horrendous conditions. He is well known to have covertly aided many of the American Guerillas, repeatedly evading being killed or taken into custody by the Japanese army. He also detailed many atrocities committed on civilians and fellow priests. He was well known to Ginger Hansen Holmes and her entire family, to Fertig and his senior officers, “Ben” Farrens, “Bit” Holder, my father, Nick “Danny” Pociluyko, among many AGOM members for whom her gave counsel and support. He also personally sent letters to family members about their AGOM members, many who were initially listed as missing for up to 2 years before communication could be sent out.

We Remained: Three years behind enemy lines in the Philippines. (1954). By R.W Volckmann.  Describes then Lt Col. (later General) Volckmann’s first-hand account of refusal to surrender, his evading capture after surrender at Bataan and secret organization of guerilla resistance on Luzon.

Lang: The WW II story of an American Guerilla on Mindanao. By Norman Rudi. 2003 MacMillan Publishing. Describes Dick Lang’s experience initially with 19th Bomber Group as Assistant Crew Chief and work at Port Lamon district, as coast watcher and was involved in various support activities.

Wendell Fertig and His Guerilla Forces in the Philippines: Fighting the Japanese Occupation1942-1945. (2015) By Kent Holmes (Ginger’s husband). McFarland Company. Effectively details Fertig’s decision to evade capture and not surrender, his assumption of command as senior officer to organize a guerilla resistance. Describes the many challenges that Fertig and his officers had with organizing Filipino constabulary, gaining support of the Muslim community, preventing insurrections, monitoring enemy movements, reporting intelligence to MacArthur in Australia, and managing on limited supplies.

RESEARCH PAPERS

American Involvement in The Filipino Resistance Movement on Mindanao During the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945. Larry S. Schmidt. Major USMC.  Master’s Thesis in Military Science submitted to US Army Command and General Staff College. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Details the guerilla organization process as an exemplary example of behind the lines resistance. Available on free online at Internet Archive at https://archive.org/stream/DTIC_ADB068659/DTIC_ADB068659_djvu.txt

MOVIES

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950), Directed by Fritz Lang. With Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell, Robert Patten. American soldiers stranded in the Philippines, after the Japanese invasion, form guerrilla bands to fight back. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042195/

VIDEOS

Secret War in the Pacific – the Story of Commander Charles “Chick” Parsons the Man General Douglas MacArthur Called “The Bravest Man He Had Ever Known,” Peter Parsons, Moon River Productions, Riverside, California