More guerrilla attacks

The battle in Kananga was followed by an ambush on a Japanese patrol by Capt. Catalino Landia at the zigzag along the Baybay-Abuyog road on July 7.[i] That same day, Felix Pamanian hit the Japanese at Nipa, Pinamopoan. He followed this with two more attacks at Visares, Capoocan on the 20^th and at Limon on the 31^st.[ii] 

Also in July the 19^th, Sgt. Antonio Luna and four riflemen ambushed a Japanese truck along the highway to Burauen, killing 16 soldiers and destroying their truck. Luna was however fatally shot when he imprudently approached the victims. [iii]

In Southern Leyte, on July 13, the group of Lts. Urbano Francisco and Enrique Carson ambushed a self-confessed Japanese detective Gelacio Andrade and four companions in Magata, Malitbog, Leyte.[iv]

In July 29, former police Chief Catalino Landia and his “Abuyog Guerilla Unit,” organized since April 25 that year, waylaid the Japanese at the crossing of Abuyog and Nebga. An undetermined number of the enemy fell. [v]

In the western side of Leyte, the Japanese also got a taste of firepower from the surging guerillas. On August 8, Maj. Corres, commanding officer of the mobile unit of the WLGWF, and  Maj. Conrado Daffon of the 6^th Infantry Regiment of the same guerilla organization led an ambush party against the Japanese patrol at Wangag Hill, in Damulaan, Albuera. Nineteen Japanese soldiers were killed.[vi]

Another group belonging to the WLGWF again struck, this time in Valencia, a barrio of Ormoc. The group surrounded a two-storey wooden house occupied by an undetermined number of Japanese troops. The battle lasted from 6 in the evening till midnight, with casualties on both sides. But the Japanese were able to escape due to their superior firepower.[vii]

Then on August 13, the group of American  Lt. Gordon Lang, who had joined Capt. Sergio Nuique in Malitbog, ambushed a Japanese patrol at Divisoria, Sogod, capturing one Japanese officer and killing 12 soldiers. His operations in the area caused the Japanese to abandon their garrison at Malitbog on October 28, 1942. [viii]

On the 25th that same month, Capt. Nicolas Camintoy led two platoons to annihilate two truckloads of Japanese soldiers at the mountain Barrio Mailhi near the Baybay-Abuyog boundary. After their second experience against the enemy, the Abuyog group held a conference on the 27^th to draft coordinated plans of attack.[ix]

But the most spectacular of all early guerilla activities in Leyte seems to be that of Sgt. Teraza who took over from Luna, engaging the enemy at San Antonio, Palo in a pitched battle. Some 56 Japanese soldiers and 17 members of the puppet Bureau of Constabulary were killed. But Teraza himself and six of his men had to make the ultimate sacrifice. Teraza’s death was a blow to the guerilla movement, but Alejandro Balderian would take over and regroup Teraza’s men. [x]

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[i] Marcial C. Briones, veteran and former member of the Second Guerrilla Brigade, Abuyog, Leyte. A typewritten account, Feb. 20, 1998

[ii] Op cit, Justimbaste, p. 13

[iii] Op cit, Abrenica, p. 19

[iv] Ibid, p. 25

[v] Op cit, Justimbaste, p. 13

[vi] Lt. Jose Ygaña,  an unpublished personal account of his experiences as a member of the Western Leyte Guerilla Warfare Forces

[vii] Asisclo S. Fiel, “Western Leyte Guerrillas”, a typewritten account, 1998

[viii] Op cit, Abrenica, p. 25

[ix] Op cit, Briones

[x] Ibid, p. 19