Philippine Resistance
One in a series of three documentaries Marilyn McFadyen researched, wrote and directed for the History Channel. The subjects are stories not often told – The Sook Ching Massacres in Singapore, the Rani of Jhansi women’s regiment of the Indian National Army and this one, about the Filipino resistance to Japanese occupation. Thousands of Filipino guerrillas harassed the Japanese, staging one of the biggest intelligence coups of WW2; the discovery of the Koga Papers, containing Admiral Koga’s naval and air force plans for the Pacific. They were successfully smuggled out to General MacArthur in Australia, turning the tide of the war in Asia