DAUNTLESS with Author Marie Silva Vallego

Name: DAUNTLESS with Author Marie Silva Vallego
Start: 2025-03-13T14:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-03-13T16:00:00+10:00
Location: 412 Stanley Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4101

Schedule

Thu Mar 13 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

412 Stanley Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4101 | South Brisbane, QL

Join author Marie Silva Vallejo for this free Book Talk!
Less than ten hours after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. It catalyzed the formation of the US Army’s First Filipino Battalion to fight for their motherland.
DAUNTLESS is an untold story of Filipinos in the US Army who were chosen from the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments in California and brought to Australia. General MacArthur mandated the men, their submarine missions, and training camp outside Beaudesert as top-secret. Their submarines were fitted and departed from Brisbane, Darwin, and Fremantle from December 1943 to December 1944. They were like buses plying the sea routes between Australia and the Philippines. The mission men working with the resistance in the Philippines significantly contributed to the successful return of the Allies to the islands.
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Free to attend the talk in our Shipping Room. Please purchase a ticket if you would like to visit the museum on the day. We close at 4.15pm so best to visit beforehand!