[Milsurplus] "They Fought Alone"

[Joe Connor via Milsurplus]

Fertig's book is well worth reading. One of W.E.B. Griffin's WW2 novels is based on Fertig's guerrilla activities in the Philippines.

Joe Connor


On Friday, June 20, 2014 1:46 PM, Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
 

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>"Based on the real-life events of Col. Wendell Fertig, a soldier in the Phillipines during World War II. He became a pivotal figure in the Pacific Theater because of his heroic and relentless pursuit to control the island, with only the help of his team of tattered U.S. soldiers."
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>This is a heads-up. The movie has not yet been released. The story line from the book has ALL the ingredients for success:
>romance, violence, scenery, drama.......RADIO!  
>It will be VERY interesting to me to see how they do the radio scenes. Will they actually have realistic equipment or even the actual
>type equipment used?
>ALL the accounts of the Philippine guerilla movement are fascinating to me but of particular interest was "You're No Good To Me
>Dead".  If you know the equipment, you find references to the ATR-4, MBM, TRC-10, and others.
>-Hue                            
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