| M/Sgt Jorge G. Herrera, Jr. discovered just | | | | Islands for three long years of World War II. |
| what kind of a soldier he was when the | | | | |
| Imperial Japanese Forces invaded Negros | | | | It is a wonder how M/Sgt Herrera secured arms |
| Islands in the Philippines during World War | | | | and ammunitions when the Japanese Army |
| II. His heroic tale can now be told in the | | | | divested all US and Filipino Soldiers upon |
| exciting new book, "Dare & Live." | | | | their surrender, suspected as |
| | | | non-surrenderees and killed anyone caught |
| The superior Imperial Japanese Forces overrun | | | | in possession of weapons. Herrera went on |
| the spirited defenses that the combined | | | | to recruit and train over a hundred soldiers |
| United States and Philippine Commonwealth | | | | and armed most of them. He established a |
| Government Armies put up in the battles | | | | Bivouac at the mountain sides of Negros |
| for Bataan and the Island fortress of | | | | Islands and equipped his hideout with |
| Corrigedor. The US-Philippines defenses | | | | telephone communication for fast |
| crumbled against the onslaught of superiority | | | | intelligence. He staged many ambushes against |
| of numbers of the Japanese soldiers, the | | | | the Japanese soldiers and was an only |
| naval and aerial bombardments. The valiant | | | | Filipino Guerrilla Leader who captured, |
| defenders had only one option: surrender. | | | | alive, 21 Japanese soldiers in one ambush |
| The Japanese Forces went on mopping | | | | encounter. To try to capture him, the |
| operations on the more than 1,700 islands and | | | | Japanese army even hired a Filipina Spy and |
| islets of the Philippine Archiepelago. The | | | | sent her on a secret mission to entrap M/Sgt |
| Island defenders under orders of the Military | | | | Herrera. Read how Herrera discovered the plot |
| High Command in Manila, the capital city of | | | | of the Japanese Army against him, before it |
| the Philippines, gave up resistance. | | | | could unfold. |
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| In Negros Islands of central Philippines, M | | | | How the Filipino Guerrilla Fighters fought |
| Sgt Jorge G. Herrera vowed he would never | | | | the Japanese soldiers in Negros Islands |
| surrender to the Japanese Army; so he | | | | during the three long years of World War II, |
| gathered 3 Filipinos and they started the | | | | was akin to how the Terrorist mounted |
| recruiment and training of other Guerrilla | | | | resistance against the United States Army |
| Soldiers. The Japanese Army cordoned Bacolod | | | | in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is of immense |
| City, the capital of Negros islands where the | | | | importance that a Superior Military Power |
| US and Filipino surrenderees were imprisoned. | | | | should take cognizance of what the enemies on |
| The Japanese soldiers guarded every entrances | | | | the opposite side of the war zone could |
| and exits of the City, still M/Sgt Herrera | | | | utilize to mount stiff opposition and inflict |
| escaped from the heavily-guarded City under | | | | maximum destruction. |
| the very noses of the Japanese Army | | | | |
| sentinels. | | | | Dare & Live is a profile in courage, |
| | | | ingenuity, and innovation worthy of study |
| It is worth reading the whole story of Dare & | | | | and emulation times of personal crisis. |
| Live and obtain the backgrounds that equipped | | | | |
| M/Sgt Herrera in his decision of fighting the | | | | The lessons of World War II was true 50 years |
| whole Japanese Army that occupied Negros | | | | ago; they still ring true today! |