The SHOCKING Execution Of The Slaughtered American General Of WW2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Throughout the Second World War, there were a huge number of executions carried out by different armies. However there was only one American born General who was executed during the Second World War after he had been captured by enemy forces. Brigadier General Guy O Fort was a member of the US Army, and he settled in The Philippines before World War 2 broke out. He was part of the constabulary there and was incredibly well respected. But as the war came to The Philippines, the Japanese forces aimed to occupy the area and Guy Fort was placed in charge of a defensive division.
Brigadier General Fort and his soldiers fought valiantly, but it became clear that the Japanese were too strong and he was then ordered to surrender. But after being captured and held in captivity for a number of months, the Japanese wanted him to speak to his former soldiers to stop their rebellion but he refused. Because of this Guy Fort was executed by a firing squad, and he became the only American born General officer executed by the enemy during World War 2.
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How ironic that this captured brave American General faced his death on what is now an important holiday in the USA, for as you said, he went to his execution on Veteran’s Day - November 11, 1942. From now on, I will make sure to remember him especially on Veteran’s Day, and on Memorial Day, too. His story should always be remembered - and repeated - on every Veteran’s Day in this country.
May his soul rest in peace. 🙏 ✝️ 🙏
And I will REMEMBER 🇬🇧💯🧐🤔🆘 my hearing is off a little, I did think I heard the name GUY FAWKES 🙄💪
GUY FORT I'M GLAD TO KNOW OF YOUR BRAVERY.
ENGLAND THANKS YOU.
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Hear, hear! That rat of a Japanese colonel got better than he deserved. He had a trial, and a marked grave. I wish his notes had told where he buried our loyal brother.
Americans are free to kill red Indians, vietnamese, use atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the tribal in Philippines and still feel proud.
No general today would follow his brave example, that's how low our leadership has fallen
@@timothy2431 Uh ok if you say so
Bravo untold past.I did not,nor have ever heard of such that an American general was shot by firing squad.Many thanks.
Hello Sonya, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
@@user-qw6pb4ub8p Thank you Trevor very much.Hope you are doing great as well.I am texting you while I sit in this beautiful weather and am enjoying the sun and mild Jan weather.
@@sonyascott6114That’s Nice. Hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??
@@Trevorjennings679 Trevor,everyday of life is special.Whether good or sometimes bad,thru the fires and tribulations we experience,life is good.Because there are a lot of people who won't see the sun set today,for whatever reason.Be thankful always.
@@sonyascott6114 That’s True We just have to live it to the fullest.💯😊. If I may Sonya, where are you from??
Thank you General, your story should be taught to all generations
I had not heard of this man so thanks for posting. My mother's fiance was captured at Singapore and reported as lost in action. Mother married my father in 1944. In 1947 after I was born, Mum received a call from Denis. He had survived in Changi Gaol and had arrived back in he UK. I remember meeting him when I was about 6 years old shortly before he died having never really recovered strength from the ordeal. It is nice to know he bore no ill will against Mum and he jdid not show any bitterness to the Japanese or if he did never mentioned it.
My father never hated the Japanese people even after four years of heavy combat. He did hate their leaders who sent them to war.
Our boys fought so hard in the Philippines. Much respect from a retired Army LTC.
It's just too bad that MacArthur was such an inept commander.
@@richardm3023 No it wasn't MacArthur fault, it was the fault of the politicians back home who decided that a small under equip Army was the way to go. In 1940 the Army only had around 269,000 which had grown from the 189,000 a year prior (FDR did try to improve the country's position because he saw what was coming). It was armed with outdated weapons and the troops were poorly trained. The NCO Corps was a joke with very few capable NCO's with the majority being drunks.
Today we have politicians who want to do the same thing and some want to get rid of the Military completely but they have been brought and paid for by China. They would do anything for their 30 pieces of Silver.
@@chestersleezer8821BUT, it was MacArthur that moved most of their stockpiles of ammunition, food, medical supplies, and fuel to the north of Luzon because he thought he'd fight a set piece battle against the Japanese. Instead his forces withdrew to Bataan with none of the supplies they needed. He was also responsible for doing nothing to preserve his air power, and his entire air force was caught, on the ground, even though they knew about the Pearl Harbor attack hours before. The only reason MacArthur wasn't the worse general the US had was because Joe Stilwell and Mark Clark were alive.
@@richardm3023 Combined Chiefs of Staff: Joint Chiefs- Ernst King, chief of Naval operations. George Marshall- Army chief of staff. Chester Nimitz
[ CINCPOA CINCPAC ] Douglas MacArthur [ CINC SWPA ] The Army didn't like the Navy the Navy didn't like the Army. The Politicians sided with Nimitz on retaking the Pacific Ocean theater back from the Japanese,
MacArthur wanted to priorities the Philippines and Australian Islands,
because he made a promise to return, MacArthur was infuriated when Gen.
Jonathan Wainwright under orders from MacArthur not to surrender to the Japanese, May 6, 1942 General Wainwright unconditionally surrendered,
Corregidor and Bataan. The largest surrender of US Forces in history.
60,000 Filipinos and 80,000 Americans. April 9, 1942. MacArthur got his ass kicked while Nimitz was taking back Island from the Japanese with US Marines, Guadalcanal August 7, '42 ending Okinawa June 22, '45.
MacArthur did return in '44, After the war my father was stationed in
in the Philippines at Luzon the amount of mass graves they discovered was horrific the Japanese didn't leave nothing alive, not even animals.
MacArthur was a fool, FDR even called him uncontrollable like Patton.
Gen. Wainwright had no idea how Japanese would treat American prisoners. It's not something you would want to remember.
As a Veteran NZ Infantry soldier with links to the Philippines, i was unaware of this General until now.He was a true hero of the Philippines. I have a fairly good knowledge of Japanese Forces activities on Philippines soil. During my residency on Cebu island in recent years, i took the opportunity to educate Philippines youth that i occasionally interacted with regarding the invasion of their country. Many are unaware i found. I also observed during my residency there is some opposition to those expats deemed to be Americano by some of the local population, and i considered the cause of this to be, lack of knowledge of the sacrifices made by many American Military servicemen in the defence of The Republic of The Philippines, against the Forces of Nippon. Robert. Vet. NZ. (Cebu).
whats it like living in Cebu, I retire in 5 years with a NZ pension,
I hope to buy a few Condo's to rent for extra coin?
ex 4th(G) Medium Battery, i fired the last round, =it was a hobby in the 1980's
I dont want to work when i retire and collect my pension.
@@greggiles7309 Hi Greg, i'm at Lower Hutt, where are you? Yes i can explain a lot for you regarding life in Cebu, but it is not something i can tell you in a few words and i'm reluctant to put my email add on here? As an aside, take a look at my friends YT Channel, 'Amazing Philippines", Rod is a personal friend and has untold knowledge regarding the Philippines including Cebu where he currently resides. You will find Rods email address on his home page. Hope this helps. You can mention me. Bob
@@jimmyavpi Why am I convinced you don't know s**t about the Phillipines?
Aside from anything else they were under the Spanish Crown from the early 1500's until 1898. Within a decade they had their own internal government and were due to be completely independent in the early 1940's before the Japanese invasion. They became independent in 1945 and have remained so since. There are some poor people there, as there are in much of the US under our current rulers, but the countey as a whole is part of the developed world without a mass of starving peasants. You're extremely ignorant.
@@jimmyavpi wrong. We're thoroughly aware of history and accepted the fact that we're at the center point of any conflict due to geopoltical advantage of our homeland yet despite it we let them in for just sake not nationality nor religiosity.
I am an American expat and Navy veteran. I've been living here in BATAAN, Philippines for the past 13 years. My home is LITERALLY a few meters off the road that was the Bataan Death March route. You are right about the young locals having absolutely ZERO clue what went down in their own country not so very long ago. I guess we, from the West, are in no different of a situation. Our own young people are terribly ignorant and, most often, STUPID of the goings on that so much life was extinguished to allow them to do the insane things they engage in today.
There should be a monument to him in Washington DC so that no one will forget him!
Unfortunately, the Washington Criminal politicians won't dedicate a statue to an American hero. They are too busy dedicating statues to communists. They are pathetic traitors and losers. 😎
It would probably get pulled down
Why should he be? As if murican is holy enough?
@@adis.g6569 Idjjit
Unfortunately it will never happen. His story is not well known because Roosevelt could see no wrong in Macarthur.
An irreplaceable patriot. God rest his soul. Wish there were more of his type in this country.
did better than General MacArthur
A part of Wll I had never heard of before, thank you.
Thank you for bringing these stories to light. Happy New Year!🙏
My dad was a WWII veteran, from New Guina, the Phillipines and was on a boat headed to Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped. He wouldn't say he hated the japanese, but he wouldn't buy a japanese tv, car or anything else that said "made in Japan" until he died.
Three of my High School teachers fought in Papua New Guinea, one was a Sergeant and an ex-barrister, a very nice bloke. They never talked about the war, never married and spent more time '' propping up the bar "' than teaching.
I knew two men on the Bataan death march. One was taken to Japan and was slave labor for the rest of the war. He was intensely anti-Japanese in all things. I once asked the other one how he survived the march. He said "I don't know. I was 18."
More POWs were casualties in ship transport to Japan.
The Japanese proved to show more ethnic intolerant hate than any white empire colonial powers,
=but thats another topic :)
Knew a man from my home town that was a bataan death march survivor... Malcolm Amos....
Well done..please keep making high quality history episodes. Don't break my heart like the History Channel did ..;-)
I knew a guy in our village who worked for The Ordnance Survey before retiring, a very intelligent and interesting man to talk to. Anyway he told me that he was in the British army during WW2 and one of his last jobs before being demobbed was guarding some captured Japanese generals prior to their execution. He said it gave him the greatest of pleasure to hand them over to the hangman, l think he knew a lot more about them and what they did than he was prepared to tell me . l never probed him, l could see it was a sensitive issue. I could tell by his tone of his voice that he utterly and totally hated them.
Most all the pacific veterans I've talked to over the years, never tell the full story.
I fail to see much difference in behavior between the British and the Japanese.
BS you knew a guy. Muricans are world experts on lies. Wmds in iraq.
@@brianmccarthy5557 Just the kind of brain-dead quote I've come to expect from the truly woke. Presumably you think Jack the Ripper was the victim and the women he butchered were at fault...?
@@brianmccarthy5557 care to elaborate?
I have never heard this story before. He really deserves to be remembered.
My great-uncle, Corporal William McMillan, was with Company M, 4th Marine Regiment. He was captured on the Philippines' Corregidor Island in May 1942. For nearly three years he was a POW of the Japanese. Suffered from starvation. Poor or no medical care. Brutality of the guards. Ulcers rendered him virtually blind. Malaria paralyzed him from the waist down. His family didn't know what happened to him for about two years. Him, and others, were rescued when the US 37th Infantry Division (Buckeye) arrived. By then the Japanese had largely fled.
Through grueling physical therapy, Uncle Bill was able to regain some of his sight and could shuffle walk by the time he was discharged from the Marines near the end of 1945. While he barely survived in body, he didn't survive in mind. There was no mental therapy or medication to cope with the pain other than alcohol. Uncle Bill fell down that dark hole. Compounding problems, his nephew, my grand-father, also served during the War. He was also part of the Occupation forces in Japan where met, and married, a Japanese woman. When Grandpa and Grandma came home, it was quite...colorful...in the house. Most of the family was either cold or openly hostile to Grandma. Surprisingly, Uncle Bill was an exception. Grandma recounted that, he would never raise his voice, call her names, or even blame her for what happened to him, but he would never stay in the room for her for very long.
A man suffered for nearly three years. Lost most of his friends and his youth. Part of him is still in the Philippines. How he managed to survive despite all of his illnesses, I'll never know. Maybe men back then were made of stronger stuff.
Yes. They were stronger back in those days.
My Dad served with the 6th Army in the retaking of the Phillipines. He landed on Leyte 20 Oct.1944. He never spoke of the war and did have a disdain for the Japanese when he came home. He also had a drinking issue , but he still made a good home and life for my brother and myself. RIP Dad. 2/3/1921- 11/17/1976
Japanese government should be ashamed. ❤😢
Especially for unit 731... disgraceful
Japan wants to forget their past... they even call themselves the victims of allied bombing! The fucking nerve!
@@Tom_Cruise_Missile absolutely disgusting... never once apologized for their crimes
@@jimmyavpi Loser
They are ashamed
Respect to a brave man .
RIP Brig Gen Fort.
Your videos should be shown in schools. So much of what you've covered is unknown. Thank You, as ALWAYS.
What a patriot! We desperately need more men like this today.
I’ve NEVER HEARD OF HIM..! Why haven’t we heard of this before now?
General Fort was a Philippine Constabulary general, (per his uniform) technically a Filipino unit, though under the command of US forces. A technicality for sure, but he wasn't in the US Army as such. He was still one of the bravest of the brave, and commanded Moro soldiers, some bad-assed troops.
@@anthonymerola1489 bad for morale to go advertising one of your generals was captured and executed
I never heard about this case. Thank you for this video.
A story of a hero leader of the Philippines Army. An example of courage, dedication, duty, and service.
Brave man. He pretty much spat in the face of his executioners with his last words..
Wow! I cannot believe I've never heard of this hero. Thank you so much for brining his story to light. Well done!
Same here. I thought I was well versed in WWII history, but I missed this great American's story.
a true brave man
Todays Japanese were not raised to be ashamed of their war criminal warfare. Unlike the Germans whom were raised to be ashamed !
The Japanese are unrepentant of their criminal activities in WWII.
Many of them still hate Americans.
I say to hell with them.
Not many wars without atrocities. How many Americans have been taught to be ashamed of the atrocities committed against Native Americans.
@@davedemyan3302 you are absolutely correct!
An amazing American hero. Why has he never been lionized the way other fallen American heroes have? Not a movie or television program or documentary about World War II that I can recall has ever mentioned him. His final words alone are the stuff of legends. But now that I know about him I won't forget General Guy Fort.
thanks for the video. I never knew of general fort. He had guts to stand up to the Japanese, they were brutal during WW2. I visited Japan when I was on leave from Vietnam. the Japanese people today are a far cry from what they were during WW2. They are a kind and honorable people and I'm glad to have met some wonderful people.
So True.
Two atomic bomb 💣 explosions 💥 in two Japanese cities by USA bring this change of heart 💜❤️ in Japanese people.
@@napoleonbonaparte937 we fire bombed Japanese cities to extinction killed more people with the attacks than the two bombs did. Japan didn't surrender because of that. Japan surrendered because Russia was coming in and they knew that giving up to America was a better outcome for their people and the government. You saw what Russia did in Germany.
@@JPriz416 More Japanese died at the hands of the American bombing raids on Japanese civilians and cities than vice versa.
Japs surrendered to us and were humiliated in front of the world. I don't care why. Scoreboard USA.
At the end of WW2, Japanese Officers who made created these issues should have been pushed into woodchippers. I'm 100% serious. They still don't think they did anything wrong.
Japanese today didn't do anything wrong so let it go the way you do about the wrongs of America.
@@lettiegrant9447 and? We let them go at the end of WW2. As I said, they still think they didn't start the war.
@@lettiegrant9447 No.
@@lettiegrant9447 You sound like a self-hating masochist. Typical self-hating, white liberal.
You are absolutely correct.
Rest in peace, General Fort.
Hail to the hero!
Honour to this Man.
Would love to see more coverage of The Philippines 🙏
There should be a stamp with his picture issued by the U.S mail
Oh wow. I am Filipino-American and a US Army vet. I had no idea this even happened. My history teachers in Manila failed to educate me. Thank you for sharing. Mabuhay.
sounds like the history teachers here in the states..
Such a brave General. Many thanks for sharing his story.
"The HORRIFIC Execution Of The Slaughtered American General Of WW2"...because slaughtering him just did not seem enough of a punishment to his captors.
A brave man to be respected.
Atrocities like these totally justify Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Strangely, the Japanese, who fought on the Allied side in WWI, treated their German prisoners of war held in Japan almost like guests, very well indeed. They also apparently treated the Russian prisoners taken during the Russo-Japanese war well. Am sure that should there be a future war the Japanese would treat POWs well. We beat the bushido out of them in WWII.
Don't forget that one of the reasons why Japan wanted to expand their empire during WW2 was to get the raw materials needed in order to build their own atomic bombs against the USA. From 1941 till 1945, the japanese killed around 4 million civilians in Indonesia. Japan killed the most civilians during WW2 than any country.
Learn some history. The British and Commonwealth forces faced far stronger Japanese units in Burma, Malaysia etc than your lot ever did.
@@michaelcrisp5794 What general Slim did there against the japanese are legendary. The british really needed him in Singapore 1941 which caused the most humiliating defeat in british history to date. USA is the only foreign country or kingdom to defeat Japan in recorded history on japanese soil. The legendary mongols, nor the Russians nor the chinese never were able to defeat Japan in japanese soil.
Thank you for sharing this great hero's story. He is an inspiration to me and a great example for all of us.
I was born and raised in Manila until I was 13. I have heard a lot of stories POW's in the Bataan death march as narrated by some of the survivors. A lot of Filipino scouts and American soldiers were executed because some were too weak to go on. I heard the atrocities the Japanese did to our women and men and children. But this American General was not in our radar of Philippine History.
And people don't understand why Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened.
True, people think Japan is the victim of WW2, when they literally earned those nukes
Absolutely.
Evil personified.
The problem is that women and children, old people were all killed when the a-bombes were dropped.
It was evil where it was dropped not that it was dropped. Civilians; women and innocent children were killed that is not acceptable. Drop it on Mount Fuji, Japan would have understood.
@@vp3970 Ok, if we're talking about the civilians, women and children, then what about the comfort women ? Victims of Unit 731, Nanking massacre ? Also there's a photo of an infant stabbed by a Japanese soldier's bayonet and lifting it up and smiling in the photo, they even had competition on "Who can behead most Chinese people?"
They even put Nazis and Soviets into shame in terms of cruelty. Yet, they don't even admit their atrocities committed during wartime, let alone apologizing
I appreciate you documenting this chapter of US/Philippine history. One thing you need to remember is that the Philippines was part of the United States at this point in history.
I heard that, if America came sooner to the aid of the Phillipines the slaughter would not have been. Conflict is conflict. America waited too long to assist the Phillipines. America, put the Phillipines last. No, reason for all the loss, of the WONDERFUL PHILLIPINE PEOPLE.
It is not Americas fault for the slaughter, it was the japanese.
Shameful part of Japanese history
All countries have something to be ashamed of. Including America. It's just easier to point out other countries shameful history.
@@f1u1c1k-y1o1u Could you tell us those unfortunate reasons? Yes, I would say that it definitely is a shameful part of Japanese history especially when you consider the fact that the Japanese try their very best to censor their war crimes in school textbooks. Those who do not know their own history are bound to repeat it.
What the japanese military did during WW2 IS shameful. Japan killed the most civilians than any country during world war 2. Even former president George W Bush crew who got captured by the japanese were cannibalised. Bush very luckily barely escaped when their plane crashed close to shore.
THE RAPE OF NANKING!!!
Does not surprise me , my great uncle was a prisoner of them for 3yrs and he was treated terribly as a prisoner of war. He had ulcers on his legs that where the result of his treatment that never healed and even in his final years(when his health had deteriorated so much he had to be push in a wheelchair) if he saw or heard a Japanese man speaking he’d become so enraged he’d actually stand up out of his chair and had to be held back from attacking them he hated them so much after what he and his friends had suffered at the hands of the Japanese .
8:23 "his story is one definitely deserves to be well known". Absolutely agree - thanks for your video
Please do more untold history! Next topic Witold Pilecki ?
Had he lived Guy Fort could have stared in his own movie about his life. Very striking figure of a military leader, and a remarkable patriot.
In the early 80's I shared a duplex with a retired army Major , he said he carried McAuthor's luggage tothe PT boat and then was captured sent to China for the war , he mist out on Batan death march lot of stories life in prision camp
Missed & Not Mist...
I met the PT boat captain that got the Medal of Honor for getting the general out.
He was the Admiral in charge of INSURV at the time, when I saw him in the restaurant in Newport
About 1985.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bulkeley
Admiral Bulkeley
Had 55 years in the Navy!!!
Very interesting well done thanks for this worth knowing about
Kept thinking Guy Fort sounds like "Guy Fawkes" when said in the narrator's English Accent...
He was 63 when executed...
The Japanese who ordered his execution: Lt. Col. Tanaka Yoshinari, was executed by hanging by Allied War Crimes Tribunal later after WW2.
The Moro guerrillas did revenge after hearing the news of Fort's execution and killed many Japanese soldiers.
Rest In Peace Brigadier General Fort🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ You're a Hero.🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Brig. Gen. Guy Fort's death is one I have never heard about before. But however, his heroic stand and deathprobably made a big impression on his fello Moro soldiers and others who he fought alongside uuring the Fall of The Phillipines in '42. RIP General Fort, I do wish your remains will be located someday.
Can you also feature General Vicente Lim a graduate of West Point also served in the USAFFE similarly executed by the Japanese and whose remains were not recovered? Thanks and more power to your program Sir.
What an incredible leader. A true hero.
Love your videos, with lots of obscure and little known details. That said, please take this as it intended, a constructive criticism: The cadence of your dialogue in ALL of your videos is not great. Not sure how to explain this but every single sentence you speak rolls off with a tone that drones off to a “finality”. There is no variation, regardless of if the sentence that follows is a new topic or a continuation of the one prior. You can hear this yourself if you listen to your own dialogue, it becomes very monotonous over the course of the video, even if the actual content of what you are talking about is quite interesting. I’m not attacking you, and hope you don’t take it that way. Your videos and overall content are awesome and I’m a long time subscriber. I just think you could benefit from a dialogue/cadence coach. I know professional news anchors use analysis and coaching of their speech, you could benefit greatly with it as well.
Lieutenant pronounced Lef-tenant in Australia & Loo-tenant in the US. Small thing I know, but does detract. Excellent piece though, great work
RIP General O’Fort. You Sir where valiant and gave the last full measure. Gone but NEVER forgotten!
This is like something out of Red Dawn. Where's John Milius when you need him?
He was such a brave American yet today is almost unknown. Today we glorify selfish idiots.
If he was slaughtered, how could he be executed? Terrible miss-use of English. This was an awful war crime, shocking.
A true hero . He also , to my eyes at least ,looks very much like Charlton Heston .
Hello Sam, how are you doing today, hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??
Thanks for uncovering and publicizing this outrageous obscurity. Perhaps people in the U.S. government wanted (and still do) to keep this supposedly embarrassing or humiliating story hidden.
Growing up there were a couple WWII Vets in the hunting club I was in; the guys who fought in the ETO were okay with the Germans after the War, but those old guys who fought in the PTO never had a kind word for anything or anyone Japanese.
I was also unaware of this bit of American bravery! He was correct! Rip General Fort!
My point of view is that he was in a conspicuous position, and he kept the rebellion going
The Japanese at the time were absolute animals.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE FURTHER UP IN THE HIERARCHY YOU ARE, THE MORE YOU ARE PROTECTED. I PITY THE POOR FOOT SOLDIER.
Hello Finn, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Never surrender.
Thanks for this story. Interesting tidbits you dredge up from the past.
I served with a colonel who had been a University of Manila ROTC cadet and went into the jungle to fight as a guerrilla. An unassuming nice man who had the stamina of a Clydesdale horse and bought an Uzi carbine from me for home defense.
Looks like there was 1 general in the Philippines that had balls and 1 general that deserted his men and was promoted.
My grandfather was one of those who partook in the infamous Bataan Death March. Upon arriving in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija he was able to escaped disguised with the help of my grandmother disguised as a woman.
Wow, please tell more about his story. That’s incredible!
I pray that someday his remains will be returned to his family, and he can finally rest in peace.
Is it just me, or does he look like a man who would say " f**k you, shoot me" ? True hero.
Every execution is horrific.
This is an amazing and informative video on a man I have never heard of before, but I am glad I do now. What a brave man. Thank you for sharing this video and informing the world of what he went through.
Friends of mine scaped by submarine to Hawaii. Many of their friends and relatives fought the Japanese on Mindanao and Negros. I know their stories well.
As a Filipino American who lived in the Philippines for 6 few years, I was curious about the history of Americans in the Philippines. The Philippine-American War was genocide, but in the decades that followed we see a relatively frequent occurrence of American service members trying to be stationed there as long as possible and/or deciding to stay in the Philippines after their service.
Great research !
Thank you, regards from Brazil.
A very unselfish hero. He should be remembered.
The Japanese did not get half the beating that they deserved as a result of WWII.
Brave general. Defiant to the end. He shouldn't be forgotten. RIP and thank you for your service.
There's an interesting vignette about Gen. Fort in John Keats' They Fought Alone about the Mindanao guerilla 1942-1945.
Having had a General as a Father who was a WWII-China-Korea -Vietnam Marine, I had Heard of this and assumed everyone else did as well? And many other things I guess I just assume is well known? I appreciate these videos.
Didn’t know this story, a very brave man, so sad they couldn’t recover his body , I hope one day they will find him, RIP
Since our first involvement in the Phillipines during the Spanish American War of 1898 tens of thousands of Americans, or more, have settled in the Phillipines and intermarried. English is commonly spoken there. This is matched by an even greater number of Phillipinos who have immigrated to the US and intermarried. This is very common in my area of Southern California and hardly noticed, if at all. This is of course most common among Catholics. People go between the two countries all of the time. About as much as Canadians and more easily than Mexico as they speak English and are hard to differentiate from the American born. I've known Phillipino Americans ranging from postmen to doctors, lawyers, engineers and elected officials. Fort's settling in the Phillipines was hardly unusual.
RIP General O Fort and the other 3 Americans.
I live in the UK and many Philippinos sound like they have American accents to me when they speak English, strong American influence for sure.
If they name a military camp after him, it would be called Fort Fort.
Yes, until a few years ago, I was confused by the story of General Guy Fort. You see, although an American, he was a an officer in the Philippine Army, not the American Army.
great story, many thanks!
Gen Miley would have turned on every gorilla fighter and called the Japanese’s to warn them of any attacks. If he was a general back then 🤨
The soldier was a great USA hero whom I've never heard about before. Thanks for listing this very brave General.
A lot of allied troops suffered much worse deaths than a quick firing squad. But RIP Guy Fort.
Nice episode about WW2 in the Philippines.
The Philippines should have been a U.S. state.
Hero. RIP
Good story. I'd never heard of Gen'l Fort, and my dad was a radioactive sergeant there.
The natives of the Mindanao territory have a pure bloodline going back to their ancient times. Unlike the Filipinos in the other regions who have crossbred with just about all other ethnic groups. I was struck by their beauty when I went up to Bucidon in 2007. They looked exactly like our Navajo Indians. So beautiful...
This man was a good example of the Old Army. Where values were set in stone and the was no ambiguity on how a Soldier was to act.
My father served in the Pacific Theater during WW2 and was witness to the beginning of changes to the US Army. He went on to a career in the Army and retired a LtCol. He kept his values and principles to the end.
God Bless General Fort. What a great role model in his day.