Ramon Magsaysay

Captain (later President) Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a menber of the USAFFE during World War II. At the outbreak war, he joined the motor pool of the 31st Infantry Division of the Philippine Army. When Bataan surrendered in 1942, Magsaysay escaped to the hills, narrowly evading Japanese arrest on at least four occasions. Even though the Americans and Gen. Douglas McArthur left and told the Filipinos to surrender to the Japanese. Ramon instead continued fighting and organised the Western Luzon Guerrilla Forces, and was commissioned Captain on 5 April 1942. For three years, Magsaysay operated under Col. Frank Merrill's famed guerrilla outfit & saw action at Sawang, San Marcelino, Zambales, first as a supply officer codenamed Chow and later as commander of a 10,000 strong force. Magsaysay was among those instrumental in clearing the Zambales coast of the Japanese prior to the landing of American forces together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops on January 29, 1945. The USAFFE where one of the most successful guerilla fighters in World War II, able to liberate the most territory than any other group, and probably one of the most successful in history. Magsaysay would later become the president of the Republic of the Philippines.

(Taken mostly from Wikipedia)