Review of Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II (Theresa Kaminski, 2016) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Review of Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II (Theresa Kaminski, 2016) write by Febe Pamonag. This book was released on 2016. Review of Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II (Theresa Kaminski, 2016) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Angels of the Underground
Angels of the Underground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Angels of the Underground write by Theresa Kaminski. This book was released on 2016. Angels of the Underground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in early 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipinos and many Americans were left to defend Bataan, Manila, and surrounding islands. During the three violent years of occupation that followed, Allied sympathizers smuggled suppliesand information to guerilla fighters and prisoner camps around the country. Theresa Kaminski's Angels of the Underground tells the story of two such members of this lesser-known resistance movement - American women known only as Miss U and High Pockets. Incredibly adept at skirting occupationauthorities to support the Allied effort, the very nature of their clandestine wartime work meant that the truth behind their dangerous activities had to be obscured as long as the Japanese occupied the Philippines. Were their identities revealed, they would be arrested, tortured, and executed.Throughout the war, Miss U and High Pockets remained hidden behind a veil of deceit and subterfuge.Angels of the Underground offers the compelling tale of two ordinary American women propelled by extraordinary circumstances into acts of heroism. Married to servicemen, Peggy Utinsky and Claire Phillips, the women behind Miss U and High Pockets, hoped that their clandestine efforts would reunitethem with their husbands. Both men died at the hands of the Japanese, but Utinsky and Phillips stayed on through the occupation, working in hospitals, moving supplies, and building their networks. Utinsky narrowly survived a month of torture at Fort Santiago, then joined John Boone's guerilla bandand became a brevet second lieutenant before returning to the Red Cross until the end of the war. Phillips barely escaped execution in 1943, and was sentenced to hard labor in a prison camp, where she remained until February 1945.Angels of the Underground illuminates the complex political dimensions of the occupied Philippines and its importance to the war effort in the Pacific. Kaminski's narrative sheds light on the Japanese-occupied city of Manila; the Bataan Death March and subsequent incarceration of American militaryprisoners in camps O'Donnell and Cabanatuan under horrific conditions; and the formation of guerrilla units in the mountains of Luzon.Angels of the Underground makes a significant contribution to the work on women's wartime experiences. Through the lens of Utinksy and Phillips, who never wavered in their belief that it was their duty as patriotic American women to aid the Allied cause, Kaminksi highlights how women have alwaysbeen active participants in war, whether or not they wear a military uniform. An impressive work of scholarship grounded in archival research and personal interviews, this is also a stunning story of courage and heroism in wartime.
Army History
Army History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army History write by . This book was released on 2018. Army History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater
Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater write by Kathryn J. Atwood. This book was released on 2016-10-01. Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017 Glamorous American singer Claire Phillips opened a nightclub in manila, using the earnings to secretly feed starving American POWs. She also began working as a spy, chatting up Japanese military men and passing their secrets along to local guerrilla resistance fighters. Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel, stationed in Singapore, then shipwrecked in the the Dutch East Indies, became the sole survivor of a horrible massacre by Japanese soliders. She hid for days, tending to a seriously wounded British soldier while wounded herself. Humanitarian Elizabeth Choy lived the rest of her life hating war, though not her tormentors, after enduring six months of starvation and torture by the Japanese military police. In these pages, readers will meet these and other courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Fifteen suspense-filled stories unfold across China, Japan, Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, providing an inspiring reminder of womens' and girls' refusal to sit on the sidelines around the world and throughout history. These women—whose stories span 1932 to 1945, the last year of the war—served in dangerous roles as spies, medics, journalists, resisters, and saboteurs. Seven of them were captured and imprisoned by the Japanese, enduring brutal conditions. Author Kathryn J. Atwood provides appropriate context and framing for teens 14 and up to grapple with these harsh realities of war. Discussion questions and a guide for further study assist readers and educators in learning about this important and often neglected period of history.
Prisoners in Paradise
Prisoners in Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prisoners in Paradise write by Theresa Kaminski. This book was released on 2000. Prisoners in Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Draws on letters & diaries of American wives, missionaries, teachers, nurses, and spies to uncover their heroic tales while captives of the Japanese during World War II.
