TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuizon, Erma M.
TI  - Twilight in Misamis: Josefa Borromeo Capistrano's guerrilla days 
SN  - 9789715390521 (softbound)
AV  - DS 686.2 .C36 C85 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cebu City
PB  - University of San Carlos Press
KW  - Capistrano, Josefa Borromeo, 
KW  - Women
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
N1  - Includes bibliography; 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
N2  - "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."
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