Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II, by Theresa Kaminski
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Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II, by Theresa Kaminski
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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 Bataan and Corregidor. That spring, after having been forced to surrender, most of those men were thrown into Japanese POW 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 Kaminski's Angels of the Underground tells the story of four American women who were part of this little-known resistance movement: Gladys Savary, Claire Phillips, Yay Panlilio, and Peggy Utinsky - all incredibly adept at skirting occupation authorities to support the Allied war effort. The nature of their clandestine work meant that the truth behind their dangerous activities had to be obscured as long as the Japanese occupied the Philippines. If caught, they would be imprisoned, tortured, and executed. Throughout the Pacific War, these four women remained hidden behind a veil of deceit and subterfuge.An impressive work of scholarship grounded in archival research, FBI documents, and memoirs, Angels of the Underground illuminates the complex political dimensions of the occupied Philippines and its importance to the war effort in the Pacific. Kaminski's narrative sheds light on the Japanese-occupied city of Manila; the Bataan Death March and subsequent incarceration of American military prisoners in camps O'Donnell and Cabanatuan; and the formation of guerrilla units in the mountains of Luzon.Angels of the Underground offers the compelling tale of four ordinary American women propelled by extraordinary circumstances into acts of heroism, and makes a significant contribution to the work on women's wartime experiences. Through the lives of Gladys, Yay, Claire, and Peggy, who never wavered in their belief that it was their duty as patriotic American women to aid the Allied cause, Kaminski highlights how women have always been active participants in war, whether or not they wear a military uniform.
Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II, by Theresa Kaminski- Amazon Sales Rank: #623488 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-13
- Released on: 2015-11-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Two American women, known as Miss U and High Pockets, risked their lives in clandestine efforts to help the Allies, a story related in Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II (Oxford Univ., Dec.) by Theresa Kaminski, who also provides an account of life under three years of Japanese occupation." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author Theresa Kaminski is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She is the author of Citizen of Empire: Ethel Thomas Herold, An American in the Philippines and Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Real Life Heroism By MN Book Lover This is what a laymen’s history book should be—it’s well researched, but read like a story, and one you can’t help but getting swept up in. I was drawn in and quickly engrossed in the drama of each of the women the book focuses on as the Japanese invade the Philippines. World War II is always this huge and intimidating era. What this book does is make it personal in a way that you can grapple with by bringing it down to the level of these women’s lives. Lots of novels love to make-up stories about underground rebels during the war, but here are the stories of women who actually genuinely lived it!The quality of research is what makes this book so invaluable. The details about what went on in POW camps—even as far as the daily lives of the men, how they hoped for escape, how the black market worked, how men managed basic survival. This information isn’t given in overview like in a history book, but is personalized through individuals (known via personal journals and written records). Men manage to live if they’re strong enough to do labor, smart enough to work the complicated systems of bribery, and lucky enough to survive waves of dysentery.Ultimately, this book shares the story of a group of people striving for survival, but also how hard they work to help EACH OTHER survive. I think that’s what’s special about the stories in this book—or at least my take away from it. When we learn about WWII, so much of it breaks down any hope for human goodness. Systematic ethnic massacre. More systematic sexual violence of the conquering Red Army. Atrocity after atrocity. Don’t get me wrong. This book doesn’t shy away from all the horrible things that happen when the Japanese invade. Then again, I was expecting that. But Gladys and the others were always working to send as much as they could to the prisoners inside the POW camps, even the whole time knowing that could all be killed for it at any point? Gladys even says at one point, when she’s recalling back about 1942, that she doesn’t know why the Japanese didn’t just kill them all for their not so subtle smuggling things into the POW camp. It’s so crazy, but Gladys just takes it as a given—that she and everyone she can talk into helping will continue supporting and feeding the prisoners without thought for the risks to themselves. Soon she’s organizing a huge operation with the whole town to help the POWs.Heroism. It’s such a foreign concept. As in, genuine heroism. Don’t get me wrong. This book isn’t a Disney movie or historiography—soldiers are still dying by the hundreds and I felt the women always stayed very real, flaws and all. That’s why we read non-fiction. The tragedy isn’t just a plot device, and the characters aren’t stick figures—they’re real, which makes real life heroism that much more powerful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An inspiring true story about the resilience and determination of the human spirit! By Terry Gaspard In Angels of the Underground, Ms. Kaminski tells the true stories of two brave American women and their experience in the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. The two main characters - Peggy Utinsky and Claire Phillips dared arrest, torture and even the threat of execution to support the Allied cause. This amazing story recounts the ways they stood up for what they believed in and actually made a difference. Highly recommended for history lovers and those who enjoy an inspiring true story about the resilience and determination of the human spirit.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating, readable book highlights little-known World War II American heroines By Kathryn Atwood This fascinating book illuminates the lives of four American women who worked in various ways against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II and it provides reams of compelling background information as well. Kaminski is a scholar but she presents her detailed research in a thoroughly readable style. This book is for anyone wanting to know more about the Pacific War in the Philippines, especially how resistance efforts in that area were created and run.Attention book clubs: Women's History Month is coming.
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