Request for Recognition of the Talisay Regiment - PQOG, January 1946
The President Quezon’s Own Guerrillas was a large guerrilla outfit operating in Luzon during the Japanese occupation up to liberation. It had many elements in the different towns of the Province of Batangas, including one that operated out of the lakeside town of Talisay. In this document1, Carlos Mendoza, Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, Talisay Regiment of the President Quezon’s Own Guerrillas, wrote to the Commanding General of the United States Armed Forces in the Western Pacific officially asking for his guerrilla outfit to be recognized by the United States Army.
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UNITED STATES FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES
PRESIDENT QUEZON’S OWN GUERRILLAS
HQ., 2nd BN TALISAY INF REGT
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SUBJECT FROM |
: Request for Recognition : The Commanding General AFWESPAC
Thru the Honorable Secretary of National Defense
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I have the honor to request for the recognition of the 2nd Bn Talisay Inf Regt, PRESIDENT QUEZON’S OWN GUERRILLAS (PQOG), a guerrilla unit in Talisay, Province of Batangas, of which I am in command.
This unit has a strength of 854 Off and EM as per attached roster which I certify to be correct.
Battalion Commander