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\nWhen the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942\, 76\,000 ill and starving Filipino and A merican troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor. That spring\, a fter having been forced to surrender\, most of those men were thrown into Japanese POW camps while dozens of others slipped away to organize guerril la forces.
\nDuring the three violent years of occupation that follo wed\, Allied sympathizers in Manila smuggled supplies and information to t he guerrillas and the prisoners. Theresa Kaminski's "Angels of the Undergr ound: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in W orld War II" \;tells the story of four American women who were part of this little-known resistance movement: Gladys Savary\, Claire Phillips\, Yay Panlilio\, and Peggy Utinsky - all incredibly adept at skirting occupa tion authorities to support the Allied war effort. The nature of their cla ndestine work meant that the truth behind their dangerous activities had t o be obscured as long as the Japanese occupied the Philippines. If caught\ , they would be imprisoned\, tortured\, and executed. Throughout the Pacif ic War\, these four women remained hidden behind a veil of deceit and subt erfuge.
\nAn impressive work of scholarship grounded in archival res earch\, FBI documents\, and memoirs\, "Angels of the Underground" illumina tes the complex political dimensions of the occupied Philippines and its i mportance to the war effort in the Pacific. Kaminski's narrative sheds lig ht on the Japanese-occupied city of Manila\; the Bataan Death March and su bsequent incarceration of American military prisoners in camps O'Donnell a nd Cabanatuan\; and the formation of guerrilla units in the mountains of L uzon. \;
\nThrough the lives of Gladys\, Yay\, Claire\, and Pegg y\, who never wavered in their belief that it was their duty as patriotic American women to aid the Allied cause\, Kaminski highlights how women hav e always been active participants in war\, whether or not they wear a mili tary uniform.
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