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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (released as I Shall Return in the UK) is a 1950 war film starring Tyrone Power as a U.S. Navy ensign stranded by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Based on the 1945 book of the same name by Ira Wolfert, it was directed by Fritz Lang and filmed on location.
Plot.
In April 1942 in the Philippines, an American motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese planes. The survivors, among them Ensign Chuck
Malolos Congress. During the Philippine-American War, Hernández led the guerrilla movement in the province until he surrendered.
Post-war life.
Hernández became a member of the first Philippine Assembly in 1907, the first nationally elected legislative body in the Philippines, the lower house of the Philippine Legislature of the American colonial Insular Government. In 1912, he was elected Governor of Iloilo, as a member of the Nacionalista Party. A practicing farmer, Hernandez became the first Filipino director of the Bureau of Agriculture in 1916