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Angels of the underground : the American women who resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II / Theresa Kaminski.

by Kaminski, Theresa, 1958- author.

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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2016.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Philippines.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.

Women guerrillas -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century.

Americans -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century.

Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.

9780199928248 (hardcover) :

019992824X (hardcover)

x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm

The colonial Philippines -- The four women -- The twilight of old Manila -- The Japanese attack -- The Japanese occupation of Manila -- Bataan -- After the surrenders : or "Is the war over?" -- "Miss U" is born -- The creation of Dorothy Fuentes -- Cabanatuan -- Guerrillas in the midst of the occupation -- The Manila underground -- Betrayal -- The unraveling : or "The fat is in the fire" -- The war returns -- Bloodletting and liberation -- Freedom -- Peeking through the fence at war.

When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor. That spring, most of the men were thrown into Japanese POW camps while dozens of others slipped away to organize guerrilla forces. Kaminski 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. The nature of their clandestine work meant that the truth behind their dangerous activities had to be obscured as long as the Japanese occupied the Philippines.

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