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Escaping to the jungle of north Luzon after General MacArthur pulled out of Bataan, Captain Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. Over the next three years, he raised a 22,000 strong, Filipino army and led a guerrilla war against the Japanese killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. Had it not been for Volckmann, the Americans would have gone in "blind" during their counter-invasion. Volckmann is established as the progenitor of modern counter-insurgency...