Shadows In the Jungle (44 page)

 

Dove Team:
John M. Dove, Alton P. Bauer, Denny M. Chapman, John G. Fisher, Irvin G. Ray, John E. Phillips

 

Hobbs Team:
Woodrow E. Hobbs, Gordon H. Butler, Herman S. Chanley, Edgar G. Hatcher, Vern R. Miller, Joe Moon

 

Reynolds Team:
Gean H. Reynolds, William C. Gerstenberger, Lucian A. Jamison, Winfred E. McAdoo, Leonard J. Scott, William R. Watson, Ray W. Wangrud

 

Sumner Team:
Robert S. Sumner, William F. Blaise, Lawrence E. Coleman, Paul B. Jones, Edward J. Renhols, Robert T. Schermerhorn, Harry D. Weiland

 

Farkas Team:
Arpad Farkas, Raymond Aguilar, Jack C. Bunt, Jack C. Greenly, Charley D. Hill, Harold L. Sparks

 

Littlefield Team:
Wilbur F. Littlefield, Samuel L. Armstrong, Alva C. Branson, John E. Hidalgo, Zeke McConnell, Elmer E. Niemela, Allen H. Throgmorton, Paul G. Bemish

 

Lutz Team:
William B. Lutz, John J. Geiger, Clifford A. Gonyea, Oliver J. Roesler, Bob Ross, Robert E. Shullaw

 

Nellist Team:
William E. Nellist, Sabas A. Asis, Gilbert Cox, Galen C. Kittleson, Thomas A. Siason, Andy E. Smith, Wilbert C. Wismer

 

Rounsaville Team:
Tom J. Rounsaville, Alfred Alfonso, Franklin Fox, Harold N. Hard, Francis H. Laquier, Rufo V. Vaquilar, Leroy Donnette

 

Ileto Team:
Raphael M. Ileto, James Farrow, Pete Vischansky, Paul E. Draper, Estanislao Bacat, Fredirico Balambao

 

Ouzts Team:
Wilmot B. Ouzts, Donald E. Brown, Harvey L. Hines, Edward W. Walsh, Elijah H. York, Fred J. Knaggs

 

Derr Team:
George A. Derr, Robert D. Hamlin, Tommy J. Kolas, Stewart J. Minzer, Charles J. Stewart, William E. Teague

 

Shirkey Team:
Robert L. Shirkey, Richard G. Andrews, Donald D. Grimes, Clyde S. Townsend, Clinton R. Tucker, Michael Zwer (Donald D. Grimes took over elements of the team.)

 

Hall Team:
Aubrey L. Hall, Norman S. Boschert, Curtis Broussard, Clifford S. Henrickson, Joseph F. Novella, William G. Swain (Team was formed but never went on a mission.)

 

Grimes Team:
Willis (Martin) Grimes, Paul F. Adams, Arnold R. Bethell, Kenneth A. Cameron, John R. Long, Cruz C. Vega

 

Adkins Team:
Henry L. Adkins, Carl A. Bertoch, Kenneth A. Cameron, William E. McCommons, Lyle C. Wooten

 

Chanley Team:
Herman S. Chanley, Juan E. Berganio, Nicholas C. Enriquez, Juan D. Pacis, Allen H. Throgmorton, Glendale Watson

 

APPENDIX B

ASTC:
Alamo Scout Training Camp

amtrac:
landing vehicle with tank treads, able to also operate on land

CBI:
China-Burma-India theater of operations

CP:
command post

Deuce-and-a-half:
army truck capable of carrying two and a half tons

Fujiyama Flivver:
Japanese tank

G2:
intelligence officer

HQ:
headquarters

LCI:
landing craft (infantry)

LCM:
landing craft (mechanized)

LST:
landing ship, tank

LCVP:
landing craft, vehicle, personnel

M1:
infantry weapon, usually refers to the Garand rifle

M1A1:
carbine with folding wire stock, generally issued to paratroopers

OP:
observation post

OSS:
Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency

RCT:
regimental combat team

Willie Peter:
phosphorous grenade

XO:
executive officer

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bowers, Pat. “Darkness Was Their Ally.”
Alamo Scouts Newsletter
, vol. 5, no. 10, May 1993.

Busch, Briton Cooper.
Bunker Hill to Bastogne: Elite Forces and American Society.
Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2006.

Johnson, Frank D
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Manchester, William.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978.

Sasser, Charles W.
Raider
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Sides, Hampton.
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.
New York: Doubleday, 2001
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White, W. L.
They Were Expendable
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942.

Zedric, Lance Q.
Silent Warriors of World War II: The Alamo Scouts Behind the Japanese Lines
. Ventura, Calif.: Pathfinder Publishing, 1995.

There are many people I need to thank for their help in creating this book.

First and foremost is Russ Blaise, executive director of the Alamo Scouts Association and son of the late Sgt. William F. Blaise. Russ was enthusiastic over the project from the beginning, and agreed to publish a letter from me to the surviving Alamo Scouts and their families in the association's newsletter, outlining my project and requesting their help. My letter was greeted by an outpouring of offers for assistance.

Russ next helped me procure phone numbers and addresses, so I could speak directly with the men or their surviving spouses or children. He also read the manuscript and gave me pointers and suggestions. And last, Russ was invaluable in gathering most of the photos that appear in this book.

Thanks must also go to Lance Q. Zedric, whose groundbreaking book
Silent Warriors of World War II: The Alamo Scouts Behind the Japanese Lines
proved an invaluable source and springboard for launching me into this project. Lance had the wonderful good fortune to write his book while many of the Scouts now gone were still alive, and the book he created will be the pathway future historians of the Alamo Scouts will have to follow.

His continued work, along with that of Russ Blaise, of preserving the history and memory of the Alamo Scouts is a vital task.

Despite the help of Russ and Lance, this work would have been infinitely more difficult without the help of the entire Alamo Scouts family. The intimate interviews with Scouts Terry Santos, Lee Hall, Jack Geiger, Oliver Roesler, Bill Littlefield, Conrad Vineyard, and Bob Buschur, as well as a letter from Robert Teeples, helped me bring the human element into the work.

Geiger and Roesler, surviving members of the Lutz Team, were especially helpful in my piecing together that team's missions.

The same is true for the men who no longer have a voice to speak with. My interviews with Terry Ray, the widow of Irv Ray, and her daughter Karen Mathews, the family of Harold Hard, Jane and Linda Nellist, Les McConnell, Russ Blaise, Christine McGowen, Michael Thompson, Jim McCommons, and Bob Cicippio provided me with insight into these men.

Of special note is Ann Sumner, the daughter of Alamo Scout team leader Robert Sumner; she, in cooperation with Russ Blaise and Lance Zedric, provided me with her late father's wonderful and insightful memoirs.

The maps in this book, which go far in helping tell the story of the Alamo Scouts, were created by my colleague Don Morris, artist for Lancaster's
Intelligencer Journal
newspaper.

Last, my thanks to my agent, Dave Robie, for giving me the push I needed to look for a World War II subject to write about, and—of course—to my wife, Barbara, and daughter Sarah, for their patience with me as I researched and wrote yet another book.

Abijao, Philippines

Adachi, Hatazo

Adkins, Henry

Adkins Team

Admiralty Islands

Agno-Pampanga Valley, Philippines

Agno River, Philippines

Aguilar, Raymond

Agustin, Marcos V.

Aitape, New Guinea

Akers, Anthony B.

Akle, Philippines

Alabat Island

Alamba Island

Alamo Force

Alamo Scouts

Adkins Team

awards given to

Barnes Team

bodyguarding by

Cabanatuan prison camp mission

Cape Oransbari hostage rescue

Chalko Team

Chanley Team

deactivation of

declassification of missions

delay in recognition of

derivation of name of

Derr Team

Dove Team

end of operations of

equipment and weaponry of

Farrow Team

Fisher Team

formation of

Hobbs Team

Ileto Team

Krueger Card and

leadership of

Littlefield Team

Los Baños internment camp raid

Los Negros mission

Alamo Scouts (
cont.
)

Lutz Team

Male River mission

McGowen Team

Moon Team

Nellist Team

Ouzts Team

patch of

purpose and mission of

renamed Octagon Scouts

Reynolds Team

Roberts Team

Rounsaville Team

Shirkey Team

size of unit

Sombar Team

Sumner Team

team rosters

Thompson Team

training and recruitment of

uniform of

Vickery Team

Web site

Williams Team

Alamo Scouts Association

reunions

Alamo Scouts Training Center (ASTC)

Alfonso, Alfred “Opu”

Ali Island

Allied Geographical Section

Allied Intelligence Bureau

Allied Translator and Interpreter Service

Amano, Agapito

Amdavid, Alfredo

Amsterdam Island

Anderson, Bernard L.

Andrews, Richard G.

Angus, Robert

Anti-Comintern Pact of

Apano, Agapito C.

Areta, Captain

Armopa, New Guinea

Armstrong, Samuel L.

Arso, New Guinea

Arso River, New Guinea

Asis, Sabas A.

Atabrine tablets

Atkinson, G. G.

Atomic bomb

Australian Coast Watcher Service

Avela, Captain

 

B-25 bomber

B-29 bomber

Bacat, Estanislao S.

Baguio, Philippines

Baker, Henry “Snake,”

Balambao, Fredirico

Balangiga, Philippines

Baler, Philippines

Balete Pass, Philippines

Balincarin, Philippines

Barbey, Daniel E.

Barnes, William F.

Barnes Team

Bataan Death March

Bataan Peninsula, Philippines

Batan Island

Bau Plantation, New Guinea

Bauer, Alton P.

Bautista, Captain

Bayombong, Philippines

Beach, Owen

Beaufighter

Beckworth, Milton

Belson, Louis J.

Bemish, Paul

Benson, Jack E.

Berganio, Juan E.

Bertoch, Carl

Betz, Herb

Biak Island

Bibi, New Guinea

Biggest Brother
(Alexander)

Bilaa Point, Philippines

Bilibid Prison, Philippines

Biliran Strait

Bismarck Archipelago

Bismarck Sea

Blackburn, Don

Blaise, Elaine Haas

Blaise, Russ

Blaise, William F.

Blate, Philippines

Bock's Car
(B-29 bomber)

Boes, Warren J.

Bogadjim, New Guinea

Bongabon, Philippines

Borokore Airfield, New Guinea

Botkin, Larry

Bowers, Sherb

Bowling, Selman S.

Bradshaw, Frederick W.

Branson, Alva C.

Bras Island

Brereton, Lewis

Broe Bay, New Guinea

Bronze Stars

Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)

Bruce, Andrew D.

Bulan, Philippines

Bulge, Battle of the

Bulkeley, John

Buna, New Guinea

Bunt, Jack C.

Burauren, Philippines

Burgess, Henry

Buschur, Rita

Buschur, Robert

Butler, Gordon

Byabay, Philippines

Byrd, Calvin W.

 

Cabalete Island

Cabanatuan City, Philippines

Cabanatuan prison camp mission

Cabangbang, Captain

Cabaroan, Philippines

Cabrido, Inoconcio F.

Cabu River, Philippines

Cagayan River, Philippines

Cagayan Valley, Philippines

Cagdaat, Philippines

Calasiao, Philippines

Call, Vince

Camarines Sur, Philippines

Camire, Philippines

Camotes Islands

Camotes Sea

Camp Downes, Philippines

Camp Kassoe, New Guinea

Cananga, Philippines

Canfield, Richard “Doc,”

Cape Kassoe

Cape Mambiwi

Cape Opmarai