Bigelow, Michael E.
"Intelligence in the Philippines." Military Intelligence
21, no. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1995): 36-40.
Maj. Gen. Charles Willoughby, as Southwest Pacific Area G2, "was always either impressively correct or hopelessly incorrect. Unfortunately, Willoughby was hopelessly incorrect during the Luzon campaign ... [when] the Sixth Army G2 [Col. Horton White] presented his commander a much more accurate enemy situation than Willoughby gave MacArthur."
Bray,
Ann. "Undercover Nisei." In Military Intelligence: Its Heroes
and Legends, 29-45. Arlington Hall Station, VA: USA Intelligence and
Security Command, 1987.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/RefBibs/intell/ww2/genmisc.htm: Hawaiian Japanese-Americans are recruited by the CIC in 1941 for work in the Philippines.
Falk, Stanley L. "The
Philippines (1942-1945)." In Challenge and Response in Internal
Conflict, D.D. Condit, et al. 3 vols. Washington, DC: Center for Research
in Social Systems, The American University, 1968. [Petersen]
Galang, Ricardo C.
Secret Mission to the Philippines. Manila: University Publications,
1948.
Wilcox: "Account of secret mission to organize against Japanese occupation in WWII."
Hogan, David W., Jr.
"MacArthur, Stilwell, and Special Operations in the War against Japan."
Parameters, Spring 1995, 104-115.
"MacArthur and Stilwell were different men who took different approaches to special operations in their respective theaters. MacArthur's was based on a romantic vision ... of a people's war against brutal oppressors. The SWPA commander turned to special operations early, developed an extensive support organization, and closely supervised its work. Stilwell's approach was more cautious and pragmatic, judging special operations entrepreneurs by their results.... Yet, for all their differences, the two commanders shared some basic traits.... [W]hile both were basically orthodox soldiers who relied on the big battalions, both were ready to turn to special operations to aid conventional forces. Because of their support, special operations forces were able to make significant contributions to victory in the war against Japan."
Hunt, Ray C., and Bernard Norling. Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerrilla in the Philippines. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1986.
According to a precis at http://dslweb.nwnexus.com/dagger/index.htm, the "[a]uthor escaped the Bataan Death March, organized a guerrilla band that gathered intelligence, [and] harassed the Japanese for the next three years. A moving story."
Ingham, Travis. Rendezvous
by Submarine: The Story of Charles Parsons and the Guerrilla Soldiers in
the Philippines. Garden City, NY: Doubleday-Doran, 1945. [Wilcox]
Keats, John. They
Fought Alone. Philadelphia: Lippencott, 1963.
Petersen: "Anti-Japanese guerrilla in the Philippines."
Lapham, Robert, and
Bernard Norling. Lapham's Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945.
1996.
From publisher: "Lapham ... avoided capture by the Japanese after their attack on the Philippines. He went on to ... create the Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces, an effective fighting force which played a crucial role both militarily and in terms of intelligence gathering."
Owens, William A. Eye-Deep
in Hell: A Memoir of the Liberation of the Philippines, 1944-45. Dallas,
TX: SMU Press, 1989.
http://carlisle-www.army.mil: "By CIC agent whose contacts incl[uded] Huks."
Phillips, Claire, and
Myron R. Goldsmith. Manila Espionage. Portland, OR: Binfords &
Mort, 1947.
Wilcox: "Account of clandestine operations in the [P]acific during World War II."
Ramsey, Edwin P., and
Stephen J. Rivele. Lieutenant Ramsey's War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla
Commander. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1996.
From publisher: "After leading the last cavalry charge in U.S. history during the fall of the Philippines in 1942, Lt. Ed Ramsey joined the Filipino resistance and rose to command more than 40,000 guerrillas.... Lieutenant Ramsey's War chronicles a remarkable true story of courage and perseverance." Crerar, AIJ 16.2/3, calls this "a classic, worthy of being placed next to T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom."
Sakakida, Richard,
and Wayne S. Kiyosaki. A Spy in Their Midst: The World War II Struggle
of a Japanese-American Hero. Lanham, MD: University Press of America,
1995.
According to Surveillant 4.4/5, Sakakida was captured by the Japanese while working as a U.S. Army spy in the Philippines. He "narrowly escaped a death sentence and was assigned to the office of a Japanese official, where he gained valuable military information for MacArthur and engineered a daring prison break that freed a Filipino guerrilla leader and hundreds of his followers." Mercado, IJI&C 12.2, finds that Dr. Kiyosaki "paints a colorful portrait of Sakakida as a CIC agent..., [but] leaves too many gaps in the story." Nonetheless, it is an "inspiring story of perseverance in duty."
Simpson, William Brand.
Special Agent in the Pacific, WWII: Counter-Intelligence -- Military,
Political and Economic. New York: Rivercross, 1995.
Surveillant 4.4/5: "Simpson provides a full account of counter-intelligence activities at the close of WWII and the early postwar years in the Philippines and Japan."
Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission. New York: Random House, 2002.
According to Pounder, Air & Space Power [http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil], this is the story of how "a battalion of 200 U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino Scouts stormed the Cabanatuan POW Camp, rescuing hundreds of American and British prisoners" in early 1945. The author, "[e]xpertly mixing POW camp vignettes with details of the rescue mission,... has produced a stirring, memorable narrative" that is "[c]ompetently researched and superbly written."
Stahl, Bob. You're
No Good to Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines. Annapolis,
MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
From publisher: "One of the best-kept secrets of World War II is the story of the Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB), the Pacific theater's equivalent of the OSS. Inserted miles behind enemy lines, AIB agents established intelligence networks and guerrilla armies in advance of invasion, all while living off the land and avoiding enemy patrols. This is one agent's extraordinary account of 15 harrowing months 1,500 miles behind Japanese lines." Crerar, AIJ 16.2/3, sees this as "a compelling memoir, with insights for current and future special operations personnel."
Volckman, Russell W.
We Remained: Three Years behind the Enemy Line in the Philippines.
New York: Norton, 1954. [Petersen]
Willoughby, Charles
A., comp. The Guerrilla Resistance Movement in the Philippines 1941-1945.
New York: Vantage: 1972.
Willoughby served as MacArthur's intelligence chief, 1941-1951.
Wise, William. Secret
Mission to the Philippines: The Story of the "Spyron" and the
American-Filipino Guerrillas of World War II. New York: Dutton, 1968.
[Petersen]
Wolfert, Ira. American
Guerrilla in the Philippines. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945.
[Petersen]
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