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podcast. Hello and welcome to it to the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace.

In this episode we'll be looking at the Japanese occupation of the Philippines

and the extraordinary stories of those women who escaped internment and helped American prisoners of war and those interned.

Joining me is Professor Theresa Kaminsky.

Theresa's speciality is American women's history at the University of Wisconsin.

Her new book, Angels of the Underground, The American Women who resisted the Japanese in the

Philippines in World War II, tells a story of four women who avoided being captured

by the Japanese in Manila and were part of a little known resistance movement.

When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000

ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bhutan and

Karigidor. That spring having been forced to surrender most of those men were

thrown into Japanese prisoner of war camps while dozens of others slipped away to

organize guerrilla forces.

During the three violent years of occupation that followed, Allied sympathizers in Manila

smuggled supplies and information to the guerrillas and the prisoners.

Theresa, thank you for joining me. Shall we start with a quick look at the Philippines?

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