Yay panlilio biography of barack

The two groups often fought battles with each other until peace between them was finally negotiated by an American officer, Colonel Bernard Anderson, in August The singular achievement of the Marking Guerrillas was the participation of the "Yay Regiment" in May along with several thousand American soldiers in an operation to prevent the Japanese from destroying the Ipo Dam , an important water source for the city of Manila.

In the view of the U. Army historian, the Yay Regiment, which suffered 40 dead, deserved "the lion's share of the credit for the capture of the Ipo Dam. Marking was enraged that she planned to leave and for her safety she departed in an armored car supplied by the U. In Manila, she lived in a shanty at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp , recently liberated by the Americans but still occupied by many former American civilian internees with no place to go.

Marking followed her to Santo Tomas and her friends hid her. She reunited with her half-brother, Raymond Corpus, a corporal in the U. Army, in Santo Tomas.

Yay panlilio biography of barack

He persuaded her to return to the United States. Among the passengers were two Americans who had worked in the resistance and became both famous and controversial: Margaret Utinsky and Claire Phillips. Panlilio avoided them. A visiting friend described the hotel as "one of the crummiest she had ever seen. Marking wrote her frequently, informing her that the Yay Regiment was now a brigade and that he wanted her back with him, even sending her 1, US dollars contributed by the guerrillas.

Marking came to the United States in August and they were married on 11 September in Mexico the site being chosen because their marital status with other partners was uncertain. They returned to the Philippines, but the marriage did not last. President Harry S. Truman the same year. In , she began writing a column for a magazine in Manila. In the s she returned to the United States and died in , "her role as a guerrilla leader Contents move to sidebar hide.

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Report wrong cover image. Your name. Your email. Send Cancel. Toggle navigation Menu Help Need help? Additional Information. In this memoir, The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Panlilio narrates her experience as a journalist, triple agent, leader in the Philippine resistance against the Japanese, and lover of the guerrilla general Marcos V.

Augustin, from the war-torn streets of Japanese-occupied Manila, to battlegrounds in the countryside, and the rural farmlands of central California. Denise Cruz's introduction imparts key biographical, historical, and cultural contexts.