Behind Japanese Lines (48 page)

Nisei: as interrogators

Noble, Lt. Col. Arthur

Nueva Ecija province

Nueva Vizcaya province

Obaña, Maj. Severino M. (Hunt's second-in-command)

O'Day, John (guerrilla)

O'Donnell prison camp

Old Bilibid prison

Olongapo (Bataan)

.155 artillery

Osmeña, Sergio (Filipino politician and president)

attitude toward collaboration

Pajota, Lt. Juan (raider of Cabanatuan)

Palawan Island: massacre of prisoners on

Pampanga province

Panay Island

Pangasinan province

Panlilio, Yay (Filipina guerrilla leader)

dealing with guerrilla atrocities

Parsons, Charles (“Chick”) (guerrilla coordinator)

character and activities

Patton, Gen. George S.

Peralta, Col. Macario (Filipino guerrilla leader)

Peters, “Major” Chester (guerrilla leader)

Philippine collaborators.
See
collaboration of Filipinos

Philippine Constabulary

composition of

unrealiability of

pressure on

cooperation with guerrillas

Philippine Cotton Growers Association

Philippine customs: shaving

use of bamboo

fishing

rice farming

courtship

attacking head lice

funerals

“bobbing” across rivers

Philippine foods

Philippine history

Philippine languages: Tagalog

Pampangano

Philippine medicine

Philippine personal qualities.
See
Filipinos

Philippine Scouts

Philippine superstitions

Pinatubo, Mount

Poro Point (La Union)

Potter, John D. (biographer of Yamashita)

Praeger, Capt. Ralph B. (sender of first radio message to MacArthur)

Prince, Capt. Robert (raider of Cabanatuan)

prisoners of war: psychology of

condition of

liberation of

Pulog, Mount

Pura (Tarlac)

Quezon, Mrs. Aurora: murdered by Huks

Quezon, Manuel (president of Philippine Commonwealth)

policies of

pro-Americanism of

personality of

threat to neutralize Philippines

death of

confidence in Roxas

Ramirez, Fidel (Hunt's company doctor)

Ramos, Benigño (Filipino poet)

Ramsey, Maj. Edwin P. (guerrilla leader)

Recto, Claro M. (Filipino politician): ideas of

defense of collaborators by

Red Arrow (Thirty-second) Division

Reeves, Lt. Bob (died in Fassoth camp)

Ricarte, Artemio (anti-American Filipino)

Richardson, Illif David (American guerrilla)

as amateur physician

Rizal, José (Philippine patriot)

Romulo, Gen. Carlos P. (MacArthur's press officer)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

military strategy of

Rosales (Pangasinan)

Rosario, Lt. Leandro (betrayer of Nakar)

Roxas, Manuel (Filipino politician)

evades Japanese overtures

as postwar president of Philippines

actions and purposes of

refuses to leave Philippines

meets Hunt

Ruiz, Petronia M. (wife of Gregorio Agaton)

Sagad

Sakdalistas (pro-Japanese organization)

Samar Island

San Fernando (La Union)

San José (Tarlac)

San Manuel (Pangasinan)

San Nicolas (Pangasinan)

San Quintin (Pangasinan)

attack on Japanese garrison

Santa Fe Trail

Santiago, Fort

Santo Tomas prison camp

liberation of

Schletterer, Sgt. Ray (companion of Hunt)

Scouts: Philippine

Alamo

Serafica, Lt. Jeremias (Lapham's emissary to Huks)

Sierra Madre Mountains

Sixth Ranger Infantry Battalion (raiders of Cabanatuan)

Slutsky, First Sgt. (in Thorpe's party)

Smith, Capt. Charles (guerrilla coordinator)

Smith, Lt. Col.: on Villa Verde Trail

Springfield .03 rifle

Stafford, Cpl. (in Thorpe's party)

Stilwell, Gen. Joseph (“Vinegar Joe”)

Sula, Norberto (boy guerrilla)

superstitions.
See
Philippine superstitions

suso

SWPA (Southwest Pacific Area Command)

Tagalog language

Tarlac province

Taruc, Luis (leader of Huks)

disillusionment with communism

Tayabas province

.38 revolver

Thirty-second Division (Red Arrow)

Thompson submachinegun (tommygun)

Thorne, Capt. Hank (pilot on Bataan)

Thorp, Maj. Claude

estimates of

ambushes Japanese

death of

Tibuc-Tibuc (Pampanga)

Tojo, Hideki (Japanese premier)

Truman, Harry S.

Twenty-fifth Division

Tydings, Millard (American senator)

Umingan (Pangasinan)

unpreparedness for war: American

Philippine

USAFFE (U.S. Armed Forces, Far East)

relations with Huks.
See also
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas; SWPA

Utinsky, Margaret (Red Cross nurse)

Utleg, Juan (Hunt's intelligence officer)

accomplishments

seizure of wife and son of

Vargas, Jorge (Filipino politician)

Verano, F.M. (Filipino writer)

Villa, Pancho (Mexican revolutionary)

Villamor, Lt. Jesus (Filipino pilot)

on Whitney

admiration for Volckman

Villa Verde Trail

fighting along

Visayan Islands

Volckmann, Col. Russell

on Fassoth camp

becomes guerrilla leader

attempts to absorb Hunt's command

dealings with pagan priests

on value of guerrillas

magnification of achievements of

Wainwright, Gen. Jonathan

on guerrillas

Warner, Capt. Everett (friend of Hendrickson)

Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)

weapons, American: Springfield .03 rifle

.45 revolver

Thompson submachinegun (tommygun)

Garand M-l rifle

Browning automatic rifle (BAR)

.38 revolver

.50-caliber machinegun

“grease gun”

bazooka

.155 mm artillery

weapons, German: 9 mm Luger

weapons, Japanese: Arisaka rifle

weapons, Russian: Kalashnikov rifle

White, Col. Morton V. (planner of Cabanatuan raid)

Whitney, Gen. Courtney (MacArthur's commander of Philippine Regional Section)

estimates of

and supplying of guerrillas

Willoughby, Gen. Charles A. (MacArthur's chief of Intelligence)

and prewar guerrilla apparatus

heads guerrilla operations

estimate of Marcos's guerrillas

studies Hunt's reports

arranges Hunt's passage home

Yamashita, Tomoyuki (Japanese general)

plans for defense of Luzon

Yamashita Ridge

Zambales Mountains

Zero fighter planes