Request for Recognition of the Talisay Regiment - PQOG, January 1946

The President Quezon’s Own Guerrillas was a large guerrilla outfit operating in Luzon during the Japanese occupation up to liberation. It had many elements in the different towns of the Province of Batangas, including one that operated out of the lakeside town of Talisay. In this document¹, Carlos Mendoza, Commanding Officer of the 2^nd Battalion, Talisay Regiment of the President Quezon’s Own Guerrillas, wrote to the Commanding General of the United States Armed Forces in the Western Pacific officially asking for his guerrilla outfit to be recognized by the United States Army.



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UNITED STATES FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES
PRESIDENT QUEZON’S OWN GUERRILLAS
HQ., 2^nd BN TALISAY INF REGT

16 January 1946

SUBJECT FROM

: Request for Recognition : The Commanding General AFWESPAC    Thru the Honorable Secretary of National Defense

S i r :

I have the honor to request for the recognition of the 2^nd Bn Talisay Inf Regt, PRESIDENT QUEZON’S OWN GUERRILLAS (PQOG), a guerrilla unit in Talisay, Province of Batangas, of which I am in command.

This unit has a strength of 854 Off and EM as per attached roster which I certify to be correct.

Respectfully yours,



[Sgd.] CARLOS MENDOZA
Lt. Col. Infantry
Battalion Commander

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Notes and references:
¹ “2ND BN, TALISAY REGT, I CORPS, PQOG” File No. 271-22, downloaded from PVAO.

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