Twilight in Misamis : Josefa Borromeo Capistrano's guerrilla days /

Statement of responsibility: by Erma M. Cuizon

by Cuizon, Erma M .

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BookPublisher: Cebu City : University of San Carlos Press, c2014Description: vi, 88 pages : illustrations.ISBN: 9789715390521 (softbound).Subject(s): Capistrano, Josefa Borromeo, 1911-2004

| Women -- Philippines -- Biography

| World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Philippines

| Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945

Contents:

Life at peace -- Signs of woes -- Time in the hills -- Bombing at Panquil Bay -- The invasion -- Early safehouses -- Young guerrillas -- A hardy race -- Women's Auxiliary Service -- Campaign for hope -- Sunset in Misamis -- Skirmishes -- Redemption -- A new day

Language/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: "This book is about a woman from Cebu who in 1942 organized women in Misamis, and later in other provinces in Mindanao, to contribute to the act of resistance in the country during World War II. A Cebuana married to a Misamisnon, Josefina Borromeo Capistrano led women who were willing to extend help to the guerrilla organization in the south of the Philippines. The organization, which started with less than ten women, was officially attached to the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) and was called Women's Auxiliary Service, or WAS. The women who helped the soldiers, almost like in housekeeping for big family, such as corn-grinding, cooking of what food they could solicit, washing clothes for them, soliciting medicines for the wounded, acting as guerrilla spies and giving hope to the lonely fighters of the country." List(s) this item appears in: Women and War Exhibition

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books, Monographs	Filipinas Heritage Library Roderick Hall Coll.	RHC - Biography / Memoir	DS 686.2 .C36 C85 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	17958

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Twilight in Misamis : Josefa Borromeo Capistrano's guerrilla days /

by Cuizon, Erma M.

by Cuizon, Erma M .