Authors: Bernard Norling
ISBN-13: 9780813191348, ISBN-10: 0813191343
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
"Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies. Bernard Norling focuses on the Cagayan-Apayao Forces, or CAF, commanded by Maj. Ralph Praeger. Their bravery was unquestionable, but by September 1943 all but one member of Troop C had been claimed by combat, enemy capture, or disease. The only survivor, Capt. Thomas S. Jones, remembered, "Defeat is a terrible thing.... It brings down with it the whole structure about which a nation or an army has been built. It subjects men to the most severe of moral tests at a time when they are physically least able to meet them." Based primarily upon unpublished sources, The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon includes the diary of Praeger's executive officer, Jones, and draws on transcripts of radio communications between Praeger and General MacArthur's headquarters in Australia. The struggles of the men of the CAF tell a harrowing tale of valor, determination, and occasional successes mixed with the wildcat schemes, rivalries, mistrust, and betrayals that characterized the intramural relations of guerrilla forces all over the Pacific islands.
1 | The guerrilla war begins | 1 |
2 | The Philippines in 1941 | 19 |
3 | The road to Tuguegarao | 43 |
4 | The road to Kabugao | 63 |
5 | The tribulations of Colonel Horan and associates | 83 |
6 | The troubles worsen | 101 |
7 | Interlude at Kabugao : summer 1942 | 117 |
8 | Serious war returns : defeats and losses accumulate | 145 |
9 | Civil government in Cagayan-Apayao : late 1942 | 163 |
10 | The disastrous enterprises of Lieutenant Colonels Moses and Noble | 175 |
11 | The clouds gather : spring 1943 | 189 |
12 | The curtain comes down | 209 |