Dare & Live is the only story that detailed a resistance against the Japanese Army months after the Japanese Imperial Forces landed in Negros Islands, Philippines on May 21, 1942 and the United States Army in the Far East (USAFFE) that included the Philippine Army were forced to surrender or else the Japanese Imperial Forces would execute to death the thousands of American and Filipino soldiers that were captured in the battles of Bataan and Corregidor.
Of the five battalions that General Jonathan Wainwright, Commander of all Philippine Forces, ordered Colonel Roger B Hilsman Commander of Negros Islands Forces, to surrender, nearly half complied with the surrender order, the other half fled to the mountains. The soldiers that did not surrender individually went into hiding, laid low and waited for the reinforcements that General Doughlas MacArthur in Australia, would send.
The Japanese Army immediately tracked down the soldiers that did not surrender. Some of the soldiers banded together and fought the Japanese soldiers. The battles almost always ended in a one-sided outcome because the Japanese soldiers were well equipped with arms and ammunitions, armored vehicles, tanks and war planes. It took two years before Negros Guerrilla Movement was organized after contacts with General Doughlas MacArthur was established.
Jorge G. Herrera, Jr. led a band of soldiers that mounted guerilla warfare against the Japanese soldiers just months after he escaped from a Japanese Army cordon. Dare & Live chronicled Herrera's World War II achievements that earned for him war medals for valor from both the Philippine and American Govenments
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