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Author Lapham, Robert, 1917-

Title Lapham's raiders : guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945 / Robert Lapham & Bernard Norling
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
©1996

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Description xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary This personal account of the Luzon guerrilla operations is woven into the larger context of the war. Lapham and Norling shed light on the clandestine activities of the LGAF and other guerrilla operations, assess the damages of war to the Filipino people, and discuss the United States' postwar treatment of the newly independent Philippine nation. They also offer a fuller understanding of Japan's wartime failures in the Philippines, the Pacific, and elsewhere in Asia, and of America's postwar failure to fully realize opportunities there
On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham, who was to play a major role in the resistance to the brutal Japanese occupation. After emerging from the jungles of Bataan and in the face of daunting odds, Lapham built from scratch and commanded a devastating guerrilla force behind enemy lines. His Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces (LGAF) evolved into an army of thirteen thousand men that eventually controlled the entire northern half of Luzon's great Central Plain, an area of several thousand square miles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-282) and index
Subject Lapham, Robert, 1917-
Guerrillas -- Philippines -- Luzon -- Biography.
Guerrillas -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Philippines -- Luzon.
Luzon (Philippines) -- History, Military
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author Norling, Bernard, 1924-
LC no. 95020719
ISBN 0813119499 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945