This is a mom who fiercely protects her children and gets a statue raised in her honor. Meet Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only known Filipino female guerrilla leader and school teacher. When the Japanese came to take the children under her care she shot them. She didnt hide in a closet, she didnt put up a gun free zone sign, she shot them in the face with her latong (a home made shotgun). She then went on to kill over 200 Japanese soldiers during the war with a group of commandos and holds the distinction as the only female commander of a resistance group in the Philippines. In this photo she is showing U.S. Army Pvt. Andrew Lupiba how she used her bolo to silently kill Japanese sentries during the occupation of Leyte Island.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 07:39:13 +0000
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