Book3 (Guerrillas,Dolly & the 7th Cavalry (From Castillo to Sylmar)

Circa 1943-45. Place: Manila, Philippines.
After surviving a bout of malaria, dysentery and beri-beri that put him in a coma for more than a week, the author regains both health and strength. Although only 17 years of age, he gets conscripted into the service of the Malacañang Palace Guards to serve the new puppet government under the Japanese regime.
At basic training, the author meets a former Philippine Scout who turns out to be pro American. The two escape from the Guards in the middle of the night with arms and ammunitions and join a U.S. Army-sanctioned guerrilla forces somewhere in Luzon. The author and the Scout have their first kill when their guide set them up for ambush along the way.
As a guerrilla officer, the author is given a squad for intelligence gathering duties. During a night raid, the author loses his entire squad. He manages to escape unscathed “through Devine Intervention.”
As the battles between the returning U.S. troops and the Japanese occupational forces rage on, the author is assigned as body guard for an American woman journalist and her teen daughter. He accompanies them to a midnight rendezvous in Lingayen Gulf with a submarine bound for Australia. Mortar and artillery fire from the ground erupt, followed by aerial dogfights in the sky. The author has no way of knowing if the American woman and her young daughter made it to the safety of the U.S. Navy submarine.
The author participates in the mopping up operations with the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment until the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Imperial Forces.
Unable to enlist in the U.S. Army because of lack of citizenship, he goes home only to find personal troubles awaiting him at the door.
Read Book 4 for more.