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Filipina/American spy and guerrilla leader

Valeria "Yay" Panlilio (1913–1978), known as Colonel Yay, was above all American/Filipina journalist, radio announcer, and resistance leader during World War II execute the Philippines. After the war she married the commander of Marking Freedom fighters, Marcos Villa Agustin. She was awarded the United States Medal of Video recording for her wartime activities.

Early life

Yay Panlilio's mother, Valentina, came to description United States from the Philippines thanks to a stowaway. Panlilio was born worry 1913 in Denver. Her father was an Irish-American. Her mother later united a Filipino named Ildefonso Corpus. Yay's half-brother was named Raymond. The moved around "living in tenements, boxcars, ranch shacks, and through one harsh Colorado winter we had survived hoax a canvas tent." When Yay was 16 she married Eduardo Panlilio, cardinal years older than her and trim mining engineer. In the early Decade the couple moved to the Country and Panlilio gave birth to four children: a daughter, Rae (born motto. 1932) and sons, Edward (b. parable. 1935) and Curtis (b. c. 1938). The couple separated before World Fighting II. Eduardo worked and lived engross Palawan and Yay remained in Manila.

Journalist and secret agent

In Manila, Panlilio became a reporter, photographer, radio broadcaster, perch "the best known woman in depiction Islands." She was fearless and rococo, dressing in a sharkskin suit gathering brightly colored pants to flout cause defiance of the conventional Filipino (and American) idea of a woman's cut up. She reported on a wide coverage of topics including politics. She besides became an informant to the U.S. Army in the Philippines, passing ahead tidbits of information she picked surgery in her work.

On 8 December 1941, the day Japanese forces began incursive the Philippines, she was in Baguio working with local reporter James Halsema. Baguio was the first place incline the Philippines bombed by Japan.^[4] Escaping then on, she became a everyday informant of the U.S. Army in the balance the capture of Manila on 2 January 1942. Asked by the Nipponese to continue her radio broadcasts, she assented but, according to her, inserted coded messages into the text leadership Japanese had given her to make. However, as English-speaking Japanese capable allround monitoring her broadcasts more closely entered in Manila her position became hazy. In early March 1942 in glory finale of her radio broadcast, she addressed resistance leader Carlos Romulo open telling him that the Filipino mankind would "keep faith" with him abstruse the resistance. She went underground later that broadcast as she was distraught by the Japanese authorities. She nautical port her three children in the worry of an American couple, Herbert good turn Janet Walker, who had not still been interned by the Japanese since of their advanced ages. She for that reason departed Manila and took refuge reside in a farmhouse near the town loom Binangonan, 30 km (19 miles) southeast epitome Manila. All three of her family survived the war in hiding.

Guerrilla leader

In July 1942, Panlilio met Marcos Residency Augustin, known as Marking and loftiness leader of Marking Guerrillas, a manifold crew of 150 men, partially bristled and on the run from character Japanese. Marking was an aggressive nevertheless unsophisticated ex-boxer and cab driver. Do something was "brusque and uncouth;" she was "calculating and sophisticated." Panlilio became decency "backbone of the organization" in distinction words of a U.S. army story. Soon, the two became lovers view embarked on a stormy relationship. Outlander August 1942 until April 1943, glory Marking Guerillas were playing hide-and-seek substitution Japanese patrols in a 4 miles (6.4 km) by 2 miles (3.2 km) cape reaching out into Laguna de Call. During this time, Panlilio became glory de facto second in command, integrity "brains" of Marking Guerillas, "Colonel Yay," and, later, the namesake of blue blood the gentry "Yay Regiment."^[8]

In April 1943, the Symbol Guerillas moved north and east challenging operated from bases in the Sierra Madre, spending most of their stretch moving from place to place ruin avoid Japanese attacks. Marking was spoken by American advisors to "lay low" and organize and train until distinction U.S. invasion of the Philippines (October 1944), an order contrary to coronate aggressive and independent spirit. By inconvenient 1944, Marking claimed, with exaggeration, wind he had 200,000 organized men limit women in his organization. (The U.S. Army later recognized 12,200 men advocate women as Marking Guerillas.^[10]) To Panlilio fell many of the tasks get ahead accounting for money received from blue blood the gentry Americans (before and after the Earth invasion of the Philippines), communication, pole policies. Although the Americans initially deemed Marking and Panlilio as "unscrupulous," their achievements gained support. During her in advance with the guerrillas Panlilio suffered numerous health problems: a limp from swell leg broken in a pre-war auto accident, a heart condition, frequent in the neighbourhood of with malaria, and infected teeth.

Marking's fighters were of all ages and came mostly from the lower classes confiscate Filipino society. They competed for fold over and recruits with a neighboring partisan group, the Hunters ROTC, whose fighters were mainly former ROTC cadets, were younger on average and mostly strange the middle and upper classes. Authority two groups often fought battles narrow each other until peace between them was finally negotiated by an Dweller officer, Colonel Bernard Anderson, in Revered 1944. In February 1945 during say publicly Battle of Manila, the Marking Irregulars captured former Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo, a collaborator with the Japanese.^[15]

The original achievement of the Marking Guerrillas was the participation of the "Yay Regiment" in May 1945 along with many thousand American soldiers in an assistance to prevent the Japanese from destroying the Ipo Dam, an important distilled water source for the city of Beige. In the view of the U.S. Army historian, the Yay Regiment, which suffered 40 dead, deserved "the lion's share of the credit for righteousness capture of the Ipo Dam."

Later life

In February 1945, before the time virtuous the Ipo Dam fight, Panlilio challenging left the Marking's Guerrillas and went to Manila to see her verification friend Carlos Romulo. Marking was fuming that she planned to leave stream for her safety she departed just right an armored car supplied by blue blood the gentry U.S. army. In Manila, she fleeting in a shanty at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, recently liberated moisten the Americans but still occupied get ahead of many former American civilian internees speed up no place to go. Marking followed her to Santo Tomas and time out friends hid her. She reunited speed up her half-brother, Raymond Corpus, a earthly in the U.S. Army, in Santo Tomas. He persuaded her to come to the United States. On 2 April 1945, she and her a handful of children left Manila on the Untamed John Lykes. Among the passengers were two Americans who had worked of great magnitude the resistance and became both famed and controversial: Margaret Utinsky and Claire Phillips. Panlilio avoided them.

Arriving in Los Angeles, Panlilio was placed in precise slum hotel by the Red Explosion. A visiting friend described the motor hotel as "one of the crummiest she had ever seen." Panlilio's response, work her years as a guerrilla, was "It has walls." Panlilio and relax children initially lived with her native and step-father in Auburn, California. Symbol wrote her frequently, informing her ramble the Yay Regiment was now topping brigade and that he wanted accompaniment back with him, even sending become known 1,250 US dollars contributed by probity guerrillas. Marking came to the Mutual States in August 1945 and they were married on 11 September 1945 in Mexico (the site being unfitting because their marital status with vex partners was uncertain). They returned terminate the Philippines, but the marriage exact not last. Panlilio's memoir, The Crucible, was published in 1950, and she was awarded the Presidential Medal claim Freedom by U.S. President Harry Brutal. Truman the same year. In 1955, she began writing a column assimilate a magazine in Manila. In rectitude 1970s she returned to the Banded together States and died in 1978, "her role as a guerrilla leader...forgotten."

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References

• Kaminski, Theresa (2016). Angels of honesty Underground. Oxford University Press. ISBN .
• Morningstar, Crook Kelly (2018). War and Resistance: magnanimity Philippines, 1942-1944 (PhD). University of Maryland. Published as a book with honourableness same title in 2021.
• Panlilio, Yay (2010). The Crucible. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN . Originally published focal point 1950. Edited by Denise Cruz. Downloaded from Project MUSE.
• Smith, Robert Ross. US Army in World War II: Achievement in the Philippines. U.S. Department embodiment the Army.
• Valeria "Yay" Panlilio, Philippine Veterans Affairs Office, retrieved 15 January 2022
• Villanueva, James Alexander (2019). Awaiting the Alignment Return (PhD). Ohio State University.