58th Independent Brigade
103d Division
Jincos family
Kalinga, North Luzon
Kamayong, chief
Kempei Tai
Kiangan, North Luzon
King, Gen. Edward
Kluege, Herman
Korean War
Krueger, Gen. Walter
La Paz, Luzon
La Union Province
Lapham, Robert
Lepanto-Mankayan Operations
Lingayen Gulf
Loo Valley, North Luzon
Lusod Sawmill Company
Lusod, Luzon
Luzon Guerrilla Army Force
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas
“I shall return” “ Military Advisor to the Commonwealth” not much to inspire; “ Orange Plan” staff meeting; visits 11th Regiment; Volckmann reports to
Magsaysay, Ramon
Main Line of Resistance
Manila Bay
Mankayan Ridge
Manriquez, Maj. Romulo
Mapayao, North Luzon
Marauka, LtGen Yutaka
Marshall, Gen. Richard J.
McClure, Gen. Robert A.,
McGee, Col. John H.
Metzger, Miss Myrtle
Midway, Battle of
Molintas, Dennis
Moore, Gen. James E.
Mountain Province
Mt. Arayat
Mt. Namandaraan
Mt. Natib
Mt. Pinatubo
Murphy, Capt. Art
Nakar, Capt. Guillermo
National Defense Act
Natunin, Luzon
Nishiyama, LtGen. Fukutaro
Noble, Lt. Col. Arthur K.
Nonpaling, Luzon
North Luzon
Northern Luzon Forces
Nueva Vizcaya Province
O’Day, Capt. John
Oding, Luzon
Office of Strategic Services
Office of the Chief Psychological Warfare
Olongapo, Luzon
Operation Jedburgh
Orange Plan
Pampanga Province
Paschall, Col. Rod
Pearl Harbor attack
Peryam, Capt. William
Petit, Lt. (-)
Philippine Army Units:
1st Division
11th Division
11th Infantry
11th Regiment
arrives in Bataan; defense of Manila Bay; Guagua; Highway La Paz River; Lingayen Gulf; Mt. Arayat; withdraws from Lingayen; withdraws to Concepcion
12th Regiment
13th Division
14th Regiment
15th Regiment
21st Division
31st Division
41st Division
51st Division
61st Division
66th Infantry
71st Division
81st Division
91st Division
101st Division
121st Regiment
departs La Paz; withdraws toward Bataan
Philippine Army Mobilization Plan
Philippine Campaign
Philippine Constabulary
Philippine Ryukyu Command
Philippine Scouts
Pilar-Bagac Road
Praeger, Capt. Ralph
Psychological Warfare Center
Quezon, Manuel
Radio station KGEI
Rand Corporation
Reorganization Plan of 1943
Robinson, Capt (-)
USS Rocky Mount
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
Roxas, Manuel
Royal, Adm. Forrest B.
Royal, Kenneth
Russo-Japanese War of 1905
San Fernando, North Luzon
San Fernando-Bacsil Operations
San Nicolas, Luzon
Shattuck Military Academy
Sipin, Maj. Diego
Smoller, John
Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA)
Special Order #129
Spessard, Miss Lottie
USS Stingray
Straughn, Col. (-)
Sumulpuss, Luzon
Swanson, Congressman Charles E.
Swick, Herb
Taboy River Valley
Tamicpao, chief
Tangadan, North Luzon
Tarlac Province
Terau, Col. Sotomu
Thorp, Col. Claude
Tojo, Hideki
Townsend, Col. (-)
Tuguegarao, North Luzon
Tydings-McDuffie Act
United Nations Civil Assistance Command
United Nations Partisan Infantry in Korea
United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)
2d Infantry Division
3d Infantry Division
6th Infantry Division
9th Infantry Regiment
10th Special Forces Group
11th Airborne Division
13th Armored Division
26th Cavalry (PS)
31st Infantry Division
32d Infantry Division
43d Infantry Regiment (PS),
45th Infantry (PS),
59th Coastal Artillery
60th Coastal Artillery
82d Airborne Division
86th FA (PS),
91st Coastal Artillery
92nd Coastal Artillery
123d Infantry Regiment
133d Infantry Division Iowa National Guard
200th Coastal Artillery
308th Bomb Wing
511th Airborne Infantry Regiment
Army Special Forces
Eighth Army
Far East Air Force
I Corps
II Corps
Sixth Army
United States Armed Forces in the
Philippines-North Luzon
United States Military Academy
Valera, Lt. (-)
Victoria, Luzon
Vigan, Luzon
Volckmann, Nancy
Volckmann, Russell William
a landing site for an invasion; accepts Yamashita’s challenge; ADC, 82d Airborne Division; Allied landing at Leyte Gulf; amnesty proclamation about executing spies; Aquino; Army Field Manual, Operations Against Guerrilla Forces; Army Field Manual Organization and Conduct of Guerrilla Warfare 175, 177, 185–186; Army Special Forces; Army War College; arrives at Demson’s Camp; arrives in Bataan; arrives in La Paz; arrives in North Luzon; arrives in the Philippines; arrives in Tokyo; ASofS, Army Personnel Division; assigned to 11th Regiment; authority to deal with Army Bomb Wing; Banban, Luzon; Barnett; Bataan Death March; Bernia; Bessang Pass, battle of; Bessang Pass, North Luzon; Biason, Dr. (-); Blackburn, Capt. Donald D.; Bokod, Luzon; Bruno as ace in the hole; Bureau of Constabulary; captures a spy; Cayler, Col. Peter; Central Intelligence Agency; combat against the Japanese; commands 11th Regiment; communications with SWPA; completes parachute training; critical leadership; decides to become a guerrilla; Delaprit, 80; Deleon, 71, 79; depart for Oding; departs Fassoth camp; departs for Ifugao; departs Lapham’s camp; departs Thorp’s camp; diary; Distinguished Service Cross; dysentery; Emergency War Plan; end of diary; enemy activity at alltime low; enemy says he outfoxed them; Enriquez, Capt. Manolo; escape from Bataan; evacuates the Haliap camp; execution of spies; family; Fassoth Camp; Fassoth, Bill; Fassoth, Martin; “Father of Special Forces”; Field Order #27, 135; finds a radio; finds an ally in Blackburn; five military districts; forward air controller concept; frustrated and laying low; G3 After-Battle Report; gets support from Kruger; guarantees to the local civilians; guerilla warfare; Guerrilla Days in North Luzon; Guimba; Gumabay, Sgt. Emilio; headquarters at Lusod; headquarters in the Haliap lands; help arrives; Hukbalahap’s; Ifugao; impressed by Demson’s camp; IOAC, Fort Benning; Japanese approach Lusod; Japanese capture Lusod camp; Japanese devastation; Japanese supply system to be the target; Japanese surrender overtures; joins OCPW; Kiangan camp; Korean War; Krueger;
Lapham; legacy; limited options; Lingayen Gulf; Lusod camp; MacArthur’s visit; malaria; meeting with Moses and Noble; meets MacArthur in Japan; message center; modern Counterinsurgency doctrine; Molintas, Dennis; more supplies arrive; Moses’ and Noble’s plan; most significant contribution; moving north; need for a permanent special operations command; not best judge of character; not happy with methods in Korea; observes the Allied invasion; ordered to abandon equipment; ordered to the Infantry Center, Fort Benning; organizing a guerrilla army; pagan priests; Pearl Harbor attack; placed under U.S. Sixth Army command; planned 3d Battalion counterattack; plans to escape Bataan; postwar; postwar Philippines; progress reports; promoted to Brigadier General; promoted to Colonel; promoted to major; psychological warfare; radio communication with MacArthur; radio station KGEI; Rand Corporation; Red Floyd; regiment losses at La Paz; rehabilitation program; relocates to La Union Province; Reorganization Plan of; reports to MacArthur; returns home; returns to GHQ; returns to the Philippines; secures civilian support; senior ranking officer in North Luzon; Shattuck Military Academy; Special Order #129; start of a new life; strangling the enemy; strength returns; summons from Eisenhower; Sumulpuss, Luzon; supplies improve; Thorp; thought missing in action; visits 31st Infantry; alter Reed Army Hospital; wearing down the Japanese; West Point; wife files for divorce; Yamashita surrenders to; Yamashita’s tribunal; year end diary entries
Volckmann Jr., Russell
Wainwright, Gen. Jonathan
Western Luzon
Whiteman, Lt. (-)
Yamashita, Gen. Tomiyuki
Zambales Mountains
Zaragoza, Luzon, 28
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Road to Luzon
Rising Sun
The Great Escape
Northward Bound
The New Guerrilla
The Waiting Game
Master and Commander
Images from American Guerrilla
Lifelines
Combat Operations
After the Fire: 1946–1948
A New Kind of Fighting
Special Forces
EPILOGUE
Understanding Volckmann’s Legacy
APPENDIX A
Volckmann’s Citation for the Distinguished Service Cross
Headquarters United States Armed Forces in the Far East 27 January 1945 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
APPENDIX B
The Career Chronology of Russell W. Volckmann
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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