For American troops in the Philippines, December 8, 1941, began with shocking reports of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by a Japanese air attack on Clark Field in southern Luzon. Deprived of reinforcements, American and Filipino troops surrendered Bataan to the Japanese on April 9, 1942. For the 400 American soldiers who avoided the Bataan Death March and hundreds of others who refused to surrender, escaping the Bataan Peninsula to Luzon was a life-or-death journey. Among the local families who risked their lives to provide food and shelter to fleeing American soldiers were twin brothers and transplanted American sugar cane farmers Bill and Martin Fassoth. With Bill's Filipina wife Catalina, they ministered to over 100 Americans between April 1942, and April 1943. The stories of the Fassoths, the soldiers they saved and their fates following the Fassoths' surrender to raiding Japanese forces are an important and fascinating chapter of World War II history.

From Bataan to Safety: The Rescue of 104 American Soldiers in the Philippines

History

Decker, Malcolm

Americas

McFarland

"On A Mountainside" combines scrupulous attention to historical accuracy with an intimate and personal writing style that takes the story deeper than conventional works of history. 
The story of Doyle Decker, Bob Mailheau, and the men who shared their struggle to survive in the jungles of Luzon is a story that needs to be told. And Malcolm Decker has found just the right way to tell it, with the feel of living fiction. 
While the hero of this story, Doyle Decker, always denied he was a hero, "On A Mountainside" makes it clear that this young soldier, battling the Japanese and jungles of Luzon, embodies the strength, courage, loyalty and humility that give us all something to admire. The book tells a compelling story, and it celebrates the humanity of these "ordinary" men. 
One quality that makes this book different from many stories of WWII is the close relationship that the American guerrillas formed with the Negritos--the indigenous people of the Philippines with whom they worked to help drive out the invaders

On a Mountainside: The 155th Provisional Battalion Against the Japanese on Luzon

Yucca Tree Press

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From Bataan to Safety: The Rescue of 104 American Soldiers in the Philippines

On a Mountainside: The 155th Provisional Battalion Against the Japanese on Luzon