The Fighting Filipinos
In the same number as Quezon's statement on Bataan, Philippines announced the famous poster The fighting Filipinos, presented in the Rockefeller Center at the United Nations Information Office. The poster was commissioned to Manuel Rey Isip (1904 - 1987) by the Philippine Government and was rapidly distributed to Filipino organizations (mainly in the not-occupied US) and to individuals who would contact the gazette.The article provides some biographical information about the artist (Isip was 39 years old and lived with his family in Long Island, where he moved in 1925), but also on the model for the poster: the Seaman Aurelio Palafox, serving at the U.S. Navy. The fighting Filipinos depicts a wounded Filipino soldier preparing to hurl a grenade while waving a Filipino flag. Thousands of copies of this poster were smuggled into the Philippines during the war. It is in fact quite likely that the advertisement in Philippines was behind this. The poster embodied not only Filipino resistance but also Quezon’s views on Filipino history and U.S. relations, which would be hegemonic after the Japanese defeat in U.S. thanks also to the fighting filipinos.
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Fecha
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1943-04-09
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Fuente
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“The Fighting Filipinos”, Philippines, Vol. 3, num. 2, April 9, 1943, p. 12. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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José, Ricardo T. 2012. “War and Violence, History and Memory: The Philippine Experience of the Second World War.” In Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia, edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press: 185-200.
The fighting Filipinos, we will always fight for freedom!. 1939/1945?. undefined. Poster collection. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford, CA.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Emilio Vivó Capdevila
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Idioma
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English
