TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs, Abby R.
AU  - Silliman, Robert Benton
TI  - We did not surrender
SN  - (softbound)
AV  - D 802 .P6 J33 1986 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Manila : 
PB  - [s.n.]
KW  - Guerrillas
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Underground movements
N1  - A first-hand account of those who took to the hills after the Japanese invasion and lived with the guerrillas. - Roderick Hall
N2  - Personal account by an American teaching English in Silliman University, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental.

When the war broke out, she and other co-faculty members aided the war effort by providing assistance to USAFFE soldiers in Dumaguete, and continuing to publish the school paper, The Sillimanian, with morale-boosting news and features. When the Japanese landed and took Dumaguete, Jacobs and her colleagues did not surrender but took to the hills and aided the resistance movement. In February 1944, she and several other fellow American civilians were evacuated to Australia by the submarine Narwhal.

Although her narrative ends with the evacuation, Jacobs continued in the war effort by joining the Office of War Information in Australia and newly liberated Manila, writing, editing and even broadcasting news to the Philippines.

Jacobs based this account on a diary and her own memory, and writes with the skill of a journalist, which she was. She passed away in 1983; her manuscript was published posthumously, with a preface and supplement by Robert Silliman, her brother in law and acting president of Silliman University at the time and also deputy governor for Southern Negros in the Free Negros government. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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