[Milsurplus] Philippine Guerilla ops

[John Kolb]

At 08:46 AM 4/11/2007, Carole White-Connor wrote:
>The first guerillas in Luzon and elsewhere located military receivers and
>transmitters, generators and old code books. They made the initial 
>contact with
>MacArthur's HQ in Australia. (Wendell Fertig, an Army officer, wrote a book on
>his life as a guerilla. He explains the problems in making the initial contact
>with Australia and the problems in getting MacArthur's HQ to believe 
>he was who
>he said he was. I  believe one of  W.E.B. Griffin's book is based on Fertig's
>story).

Yes, W.E.B. Griffin's book "Behind the Lines", book VII of his series 
"The Corps"
is about Fertig', who had raised an army of 30,000 uniformed and armed men
when MacArthur returned.  Very good read.

John