US Army Memo Officially Recognizing a Segment of the Pandita Area Guerrillas, March 1946 - Batangas History, Culture and Folklore US Army Memo Officially Recognizing a Segment of the Pandita Area Guerrillas, March 1946 - Batangas History, Culture and Folklore

US Army Memo Officially Recognizing a Segment of the Pandita Area Guerrillas, March 1946

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The Pandita Unit was a guerrilla organization organized in the town of Bauan, Batangas. It was supposedly affiliated with the 6th Military District under Col. Macario Peralta which was based in the island of Panay in the Visayas. Also affiliated with this district is the Lobo Unit, the documents of which are also posted in this web site. This particular document1 is a transcription of an official letter from one Thomas J. Brown of the United States Army Western Pacific Command’s Adjutant’s officer informing the Philippine Army of the formal recognition of 159 personnel, merely a small fraction of the Pandita Area guerrillas.

Guerrilla Files

HEADQUARTERS
UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES WESTERN PACIFIC
OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING GENERAL

APO 707
9 MAR 1946

GSCPG 091 Guerrillas

SUBJECT
TO
FROM
: HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION
: Recognition of Guerrilla Unit.
: Chief of Staff, Philippine Army, APO 75
1. The following guerrilla unit is recognized by the Commanding General, United States Army Forces, Western Pacific, as having been an authorized element of this command from 8 March 1945 to 31 May 1945:
Co A, Di Combat Team STRENGTH
159

2. Under the provisions of Executive Order No. 21, by the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, dated 26 October 1944, the status of the members of this unit, during the period above specified, was that of officers and enlisted men of the Philippine Army.

3. It is desired that payment of this unit for the period above specified be expedited by Finance Officers of the Philippine Army.

4. Under the provisions of Executive Order No. 68, by the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, dated 26 September 1945, all officers and enlisted men of this unit, other than those who are members of the Regular Force or the Reserve Force of the Philippine Army, will be considered as having been discharged from the Philippine Army as of 1 June 1945.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL STYER:
THOMAS J. BROWN
CWO USA
ASST. ADJ. GEN.

1 Incl:

Roster of unit
Notes and references:
1 “Pandita Area, Free Luzon Intelligence Echelon, 6th MD, [Folder 4],” online at the United States National Archives.
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