Book on WWII special unit of Filipinos in US Army to be launched

  From the Filipino Regiments in the US Army, the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and 978th Signal Service Company went on top-secret mission behind the Japanese lines.

Dauntless, by Marie Silva Vallejo, a book about a special unit of the Filipinos in the US Army in World War II, which went on top-secret missions behind enemy lines two years before Liberation, will be launched Aug. 17 at 6 p.m. at Sentro Filipino: The San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center, 814 Mission St. Mezzanine Level, San Francisco, +1 650-270-0089

From the Filipino Regiments in the US Army, the “1st Reconnaissance Battalion and 978th Signal Service Company were the first and only Army units to undertake such a specialized mission during the course of the Second World War,” noted the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, May 1985

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The event is sponsored by PAWA, Sentro Filipino and The Hinabi Project.

August 17, 2023. Door opens at 6 p.m. at

Books will be available at the launch. PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) [email protected]

More books at Eastwind Books of Berkeley (Asia Book Center) +1 510-548-2350