{"id":6221,"date":"2017-01-11T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6221"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:28:32","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-8-14-january-1945-captain-hunt-and-the-filipino-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6221","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 8–14 January 1945: Captain Hunt and the Filipino resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poster depicting the Philippine resistance movement [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on the morning of 9 January 1945, American troops landed in force on Luzon, the largest island\u00a0in the Philippines. They were soon contacted by a runner sent by Captain Ray C. Hunt of the US Army Air Corps.<\/p>\n

Hunt had escaped from the Bataan Death March<\/a> and, for over two years, had been fighting behind enemy lines with the Filipino resistance movement.<\/p>\n

Hunt had been a staff sergeant when captured by the Japanese but was promoted to captain by the Filipinos and went on to lead a large and effective unit of resistance fighters.<\/p>\n

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