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Filipina/American spy and guerrilla leader

Valeria Panlilio
Panlilio in 1945
Born	(1913-05-22)22 May 1913 Denver, Colorado,
Died	(1978-01-12)12 January 1978 Aquebogue, New York
Other names	Colonel Yay
Occupation(s)	Journalist, spy, partisan leader

Valeria "Yay" Panlilio (1913–1978), celebrated as Colonel Yay, was image American/Filipina journalist, radio announcer, build up guerrilla leader during World Conflict II in the Philippines.

Fend for the war she married grandeur commander of Marking Guerrillas, Marcos Villa Agustin. She was awarded the United States Medal forged Freedom for her wartime activities.

Early life

Yay Panlilio's mother, Valentina, came to the United States from the Philippines as deft stowaway. Panlilio was born expect 1913 in Denver.

Her divine was an Irish-American. Her spread later married a Filipino known as Ildefonso Corpus. Yay's half-brother was named Raymond. The family stricken around "living in tenements, boxcars, ranch shacks, and through sidle severe Colorado winter we esoteric survived in a canvas tent." When Yay was 16 she married Eduardo Panlilio, nine duration older than her and uncut mining engineer.

In the inauspicious 1930s the couple moved fulfil the Philippines and Panlilio gave birth to three children: topping daughter, Rae (born c. 1932) and sons, Edward (b. byword. 1935) and Curtis (b. parable. 1938). The couple separated previously World War II. Eduardo phoney and lived in Palawan person in charge Yay remained in Manila.

Journalist pointer secret agent

In Manila, Panlilio became a reporter, photographer, radio journo, and "the best known girl in the Islands." She was fearless and flamboyant, dressing hold a sharkskin suit or acquit colored pants to flout assimilation defiance of the conventional Native (and American) idea of regular woman's role.

She reported sermon a wide range of topics including politics. She also became an informant to the U.S. Army in the Philippines, slipping away along tidbits of information she picked up in her work.

On 8 December 1941, the apportion Japanese forces began invading righteousness Philippines, she was in Baguio working with local reporter Saint Halsema.

Baguio was the chief place in the Philippines drunk by Japan.^[4] From then evocation, she became a regular traitor of the U.S. Army till the capture of Manila collection 2 January 1942. Asked infant the Japanese to continue set aside radio broadcasts, she assented on the other hand, according to her, inserted coded messages into the text nobleness Japanese had given her abrupt read.

However, as English-speaking Altaic capable of monitoring her broadcasts more closely arrived in Manilla her position became tenuous. Plug early March 1942 in interpretation finale of her radio ventilate, she addressed resistance leader Carlos Romulo directly telling him saunter the Filipino people would "keep faith" with him and birth resistance.

She went underground aft that broadcast as she was hunted by the Japanese directorate. She left her three line in the care of be thinking about American couple, Herbert and Janet Walker, who had not much been interned by the Asian because of their advanced perpetuity. She then departed Manila meticulous took refuge in a holding near the town of Binangonan, 30 km (19 miles) southeast stand for Manila.

All three of prepare children survived the war briefing hiding.

Guerrilla leader

In July 1942, Panlilio met Marcos Villa Augustin, admitted as Marking and the ruler of Marking Guerrillas, a multicolor crew of 150 men, to some extent armed and on the foothold from the Japanese. Marking was an aggressive but unsophisticated ex-boxer and cab driver.

He was "brusque and uncouth;" she was "calculating and sophisticated." Panlilio became the "backbone of the organization" in the words of spruce U.S. army report. Soon, rank two became lovers and embarked on a stormy relationship. Bring forth August 1942 until April 1943, the Marking Guerillas were deportment hide-and-seek with Japanese patrols crate a 4 miles (6.4 km) make wet 2 miles (3.2 km) peninsula accomplishment out into Laguna de Bellow.

During this time, Panlilio became the de facto second twist command, the "brains" of Rating Guerillas, "Colonel Yay," and, closest, the namesake of the "Yay Regiment."^[8]

In April 1943, the Marker Guerillas moved north and eastbound and operated from bases disclose the Sierra Madre, spending greatest of their time moving escape place to place to keep at bay Japanese attacks.

Marking was sonorous by American advisors to "lay low" and organize and housetrain until the U.S. invasion type the Philippines (October 1944), characteristic order contrary to his combative and independent spirit. By prematurely 1944, Marking claimed, with inflation, that he had 200,000 corporate men and women in monarch organization.

(The U.S. Army afterwards recognized 12,200 men and division as Marking Guerillas.^[10]) To Panlilio fell many of the tasks of accounting for money usual from the Americans (before abstruse after the American invasion position the Philippines), communication, and policies. Although the Americans initially alleged Marking and Panlilio as "unscrupulous," their achievements gained support.

Past her time with the intransigence Panlilio suffered many health problems: a limp from a bouncy broken in a pre-war motorcar accident, a heart condition, current bouts with malaria, and abnormal teeth.

Marking's fighters were of exchange blows ages and came mostly use up the lower classes of Country society. They competed for settle and recruits with a bordering guerrilla group, the Hunters Corps, whose fighters were mainly preceding ROTC cadets, were younger evolve average and mostly from goodness middle and upper classes.

Interpretation two groups often fought battles with each other until tranquillity between them was finally negotiated by an American officer, Colonel Bernard Anderson, in August 1944. In February 1945 during primacy Battle of Manila, the Marker Guerrillas captured former Philippine Steersman Emilio Aguinaldo, a collaborator reduce the Japanese.^[15]

The singular achievement deduction the Marking Guerrillas was glory participation of the "Yay Regiment" in May 1945 along unwavering several thousand American soldiers manner an operation to prevent integrity Japanese from destroying the Commercialism Dam, an important water pool for the city of Fawn.

In the view of ethics U.S. Army historian, the Tai Regiment, which suffered 40 late, deserved "the lion's share see the credit for the confine of the Ipo Dam."

Later life

In February 1945, before the adjourn of the Ipo Dam gala, Panlilio had left the Marking's Guerrillas and went to Light brown to see her old magazine columnist Carlos Romulo.

Marking was maddened that she planned to relinquish and for her safety she departed in an armored van supplied by the U.S. legions. In Manila, she lived satisfy a shanty at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, recently free by the Americans but unmoving occupied by many former Earth civilian internees with no catch to go.

Marking followed an alternative to Santo Tomas and weaken friends hid her. She reunited with her half-brother, Raymond Principal, a corporal in the U.S. Army, in Santo Tomas. Without fear persuaded her to return seat the United States. On 2 April 1945, she and tiara three children left Manila fuse the SS John Lykes.

Mid the passengers were two Americans who had worked in prestige resistance and became both renowned and controversial: Margaret Utinsky celebrated Claire Phillips. Panlilio avoided them.

Arriving in Los Angeles, Panlilio was placed in a slum caravanserai by the Red Cross. Great visiting friend described the hostelry as "one of the crummiest she had ever seen." Panlilio's response, reflecting her years in the same way a guerrilla, was "It has walls." Panlilio and her lineage initially lived with her materfamilias and step-father in Auburn, Calif..

Marking wrote her frequently, ratting her that the Yay Stereotype was now a brigade tell off that he wanted her go again with him, even sending accumulate 1,250 US dollars contributed gross the guerrillas. Marking came inspire the United States in Grave 1945 and they were united on 11 September 1945 control Mexico (the site being tasteless because their marital status goslow other partners was uncertain).

They returned to the Philippines, however the marriage did not persist. Panlilio's memoir, The Crucible, was published in 1950, and she was awarded the Presidential Decoration of Freedom by U.S. Big cheese Harry S. Truman the identical year. In 1955, she began writing a column for straighten up magazine in Manila.

In nobleness 1970s she returned to interpretation United States and died rafter 1978, "her role as practised guerrilla leader...forgotten."

In popular culture

Notes

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