This Female Teacher SLAUGHTERED Hundreds Of Soldiers During World War 2...

[@stefanherns4541]

I never knew about Nieves Fernandez, so glad to hear about a powerful woman!

[@tamuman93]

Lol

[@simonriley118]

Me too. I'm Filipino and I didn't know about her. 😮

[@danielmartin7838]

This ain't what makes a person powerful, you snowflake

[@stefanherns4541]

@@danielmartin7838 You Bozo, I'm a 73 year old Grandma, Not a snowflake! "POWERFUL" IS A WORD THAT A MISOGYNIST Cant handle! I don't believe YOU could do what she did to save so many people!

[@tamuman93]

@@danielmartin7838 - I believe you are being shadow banned brother. I can see your response in the notifications, but not the main body.

[@zero2midnight]

The Phillipines should make a statue of her with a history plaque of how she helped win the war. The youth of today need to hear about her bravery. I would make it mandatory that all young folks visit Corregidor Island in the Philippines and see first hand the sacrifices men and women had to endure.

[@tovarco]

Agreed. Ive never heard this history before. For Pilipinos here in the USA....we know so little about our real history. Most have no idea that the US gov tried to take over the PI. smh.

[@jamesalbright4666]

I’m with you but unfortunately todays youth are both lazy & selfish thinking only of themselves.

[@renzogulle5422]

Tacloban City LGU should dig up her story and recognize her. Put her statue in Tacloban City Plaza for all the world to see...or even a place in Palo, Leyte at the MacArthur landing site...

[@renzogulle5422]

@@jamesalbright4666 I'm a Filipino who loves to read not only our history but also of the US especially during the American occupation up to our liberation in 1946 when the US finally brought down their flag and raised ours. A lot should be considered in our history because so much inaccuracies are written about it. When I was in my fourth grade up to right after the so called EDSA revolution in '86, our history books are about 3 inches thick. But today, it's only a half inch thick with full of garbage to say the least. It's really disappointing that kids today don't care about history.

[@yndiiatecow2536]

You will never heard about this, why, the american considered themselves the liberator of filipinos, and the history of their country is written by american so called phils. expert who live in America..never been to phils in other words filipinos is a brainwashed nations by america, and till today they are still brainwashed and have colonial mentality. For them anything american is great....

[@mikekennedy4572]

I have visited the island of Southern Leyte, and stayed for several days in a town not far from Tacloban, but I never heard of Nieves until this video. She is a true national hero and should be honored and remembered.

[@markcargill9734]

Lest We Forget.

[@tommyrhodes8594]

I just left there but I didn't know about this woman

[@And-kn5fq]

The narration is just boring

[@darwinarboleda1917]

I am a Pilipino and since birth i've never heard about her and if she did that she must be a hero of our country like Tandang Sora

[@baconneggs1234]

And What do expect apart from the heroics of the woman ... The japanese is not a hearty subject to narrate Plus if you watch some true crime uploads narration is very similar

[@Alanoffer]

What an incredible woman , not only to fight back the way she did but also commanding a small army , I’m surprised she’s not world famous ,

[@JT-cf5ol]

people try to hide history, tear down statues, ignore the past because its easier to manipulate people who forget their history.

[@aschconformity7795]

coz she's not white.

[@lifeofxyco7633]

Check out Gabriela Silang as well. Another Filipina war hero.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

Agreed

[@vincentbradshaw9980]

Great comment. Well done. Look at the comment above yours. Chalk and cheese, as you commented aboot her, and didnt ramble on aboot a story aboot your Rambo uncle killing a Japanese guard lmao. You commented on the content here, so kudos for that. I give this comment a thumbs up...V

[@dirtwhisperer658]

My wife was born in the Philippines and I got to meet and talk to her mother before she passed away. She had so much hatred for the Japanese it was unreal. She told us that during the occupation they were at home and some young men came running into the village telling everyone that the Japanese were marching toward the town. They had all heard stories about what the Japanese did but they had not seen very many up to that point. My wife's mom and her sister got several teen-age girls and shaved their heads and put boys clothes on them because the Japanese would snatch teen-age girls and either take them away or rape them on the spot. They didn't bother boys. The trick worked for those girls but they grabbed a couple of others and took them away with them. 2 soldiers went into my wife's mothers house and ransacked it. She said they threw a cabinet out into the street and that cabinet had all the family pictures in it and a lot of them washed down the ditch in the rain or got ruined that day. I don't feel sorry for any of the Japanese that this school teacher took out of the war.

[@davidbutter7433]

That's why the Americans had to drop atom bomb ,only way to stop brainwashed soldiers who could never surrender, terrible for innocent civilians though obviously, isn't it all ways ,soldiers taught about honor, but what is honnorable about never showing remorse for unessasery causing terrible suffering to others

[@ltipst2962]

The Japanese are not like that today. We are talking nearly 100 years ago. Thats the bit missing from your huge comment.

[@dirtwhisperer658]

@@ltipst2962 What? This video was about the Japanese during world war II which was 69 years ago not 100. That's exactly what my comment was about. The Japanese in the Philippines during world war II. I was telling a first hand account from someone who was there. What are you 12 years old.? Of course the Japanese aren't like that now. I didn't say they were and neither did the video.

[@MusMasi]

@@ltipst2962 Who said they were? Are we not allowed to discuss the Past? Not all my ancestors and past countrymen were saints either, are we not allowed to discuss what they got up to because it might hurt my feelings? I don't give a F, the past is the past, and we cannot learn from it, if we change it to make it more appealing to us or never talk about the bad parts. As for my ancestors I am not responsible for their crimes, nor should I take credit for their achievements that was their life/lives now I have my own and own decisions to make.

[@ROMANABSOLUT]

@dirtw - the Russians did the same in WWII, as well the Americans in all their wars (see mainly Iraq). Russians claim the Germans did the same while in Russia in WWII. Having the POWER, most of humans show what they really are : animals.

[@weskal5490]

I never heard of this amazing woman. May her name never be forgotten for the warrior & hero she was.

[@dianekeller7534]

Women don't give much credit it's always about men

[@weskal5490]

@@dianekeller7534 Indeed this is a sad truth. Hopefully now with the internet more and more stories like this will keep coming to light and give women the recognition and place in history they deserve. Katherine Johnson, a black mathematician who worked at NASA, is another that I think didn't get the full recognition she deserved. Her calculations in orbital mechanics was instrumental in saving the lives of the crew of Apollo 13.

[@tjmmcd1]

You never heard of her before, because this is totally fabricated nonsense.

[@randomobserver8168]

@@dianekeller7534 If you mean specifically in matters of war, I suspect numbers play a role. But most cultures have made a point of singling out female war heroes both in their distant and recent pasts. Most have a handful of such in the mythology, not necessarily any more real than other myths but important to the culture, then a few more more or less real from their ancient history, and others who pop up from time to time in their histories. War was a male preserve, so it's not surprising that most of the fame and glory, as most of the risk of taking part in combat, fell on men. For the British, that would range from the cult of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni and enemy of the Romans, right down to the Second World War in which women who served, being far less numerous and usually in non-combat roles, nonetheless are always mentioned. Those who served in roles in which they participated in and/or themselves were subjected to lethal force, were made into fairly serious folk and pop culture heroes after the war. Usually the ones who were in special operations and intelligence- Odette Sansom, Violette Szabo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Krystyna Skarbek to name the four most usually cited. I'm a Canadian, born 1970 to British parents. I was exposed to British books and movies and had an early interest in the war. I had heard three of those names in childhood in connection with their war exploits, seen a movie about at least one of them, and a string of memoirs by the fourth came out in Canada in the 80s. Not to say these amount to thousands of women. But when a war takes place in which millions of men are in uniform and under arms for up to six years, and few of them save senior leaders are widely known by name, and even few if any of the men in special operations are ever known by name, it is not nothing that these four women were widely noted and lionized after the war, and still have news articles and documentaries written about them today. Or that there is a list of other such agents on Wikipedia. If anything, pop culture after the war went out of its way to overstate their roles. The study of the Soviet front is similar- millions of men in battle, the names mostly of senior leaders known to us, but pop culture attention has always made space to name selected female participants in combat and still has a good space for them today. Female Soviet snipers and combat pilots are widely discussed topics. Women in partisan units always have been. Many have argued and most who look at war are aware of the burden it imposes on civilian women, and indeed children. They are usually unknown to us by name. Then again, so are the millions of worker and peasant men who get killed.

[@weskal5490]

@@tjmmcd1 Really?? wow!

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

I am so glad she survived the war. WWII often seems to be an endlessly gruesome story of horrors and the happier news from the time is rare. Thank you for the video.

[@ltipst2962]

Truth

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@ltipst2962 met a german from hamburg and he said when he in Russia in w.w.2. he shot dozens off Russian Girls/ women who use too in no mens land gang rape germen soilders then cut off their penis and testicles//balls. ahh met him at a Australia Hare krhna sunday feast. Showed me photos off him in German war uniform. He had a bull- dog look. N.B.B. Made sure ahh ate more Hare Krhsna free Food just in case ahh was next on a Hit List.'

[@strahnbrad3979]

That she lived on while she has a huge bounty on her head must have severely pissed off the Japanese. What a glorious thing in history.

[@lawrencemartin24]

In the 1970's I worked with a Filipino Bataan Death March survivor. He was 15 when captured and had joined the Filipino Scouts. I remarked how I never saw him have a bad day. He then told me his story. He said when he made it to the USA he would never have another day of strife. That nothing could ever come close to what he had experienced at the hands of the Japanese.

[@ltipst2962]

@@seanodwyer4322 What? Who was?, you? But why??

[@MusMasi]

@@seanodwyer4322 What were you doing to provoke them? I can understand 1 incident but 4 times in four different places with four different sets of people? Forgive me for being skeptical, Sydney, Kaitaia, Auckland and Hastings are not war zones, and have not had armed conflict for over 150 years. I have been to all of those 4 places, and lived in a couple and have never been attacked. And have spent a lot of time in polynesian majority parts of those places.

[@alexcarter8807]

@@seanodwyer4322 And they put the Dreaded Maori Double-Space Curse on ya!

[@rhainegraves7235]

1™970 ©€° ©€€° F ™ilipino ®€€° B™ataan D™eath M™arch B™olo

[@Kopie0830]

The world never learns from war. Those who starts wars should be nuked. Period.

[@matchrocket1702]

My college speech teacher was Filipino and was there during the Japanese occupation. He mentioned it a few times. He spoke about the collaborators and how careful you had to be about who you talked to and what you said.

[@georgielancaster1356]

I wish I could have talked to him.

[@dave8599]

My collage chemistry teacher worked on the A bomb, he talked fondly about his boss who he called Oppie.

[@matchrocket1702]

@@dave8599 I watched the documentary The Day After Trinity last night. All the physicists called Robert Oppenheimer by that nick name. It was so sad how that bastard Joe McCarthy ruined his life.

[@kevintangerokayoeh1571]

there was a news that Mariano Marcos, grandfather of the current president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr was a Japanese collaborator. According to Wikipedia: "Mariano Marcos was tried, and having "readily confessed," was executed on March 8, 1945, for being a Japanese collaborator by the Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces. Mariano Marcos was drawn and quartered - his hands were tied to two carabaos, which were then whipped to run in opposite directions."

[@royleevaughn2990]

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[@moistmike4150]

My Great Uncle was on the Bataan Death March. As he was being marched north, he and a buddy stopped to help carry an American who had passed out from exhaustion and lack of water. As my uncle and his friend picked up the man, a Japanese guard screamed something at them and then shoved his bayonet thru the man's groin. The poor fellow moaned in pain and then the Japanese soldier shoved his bayonet through the man's throat and my uncle watched as the man choked to death on his own blood. It was at that point that my uncle began to hate the "Effin' Nips" as he labeled them. Later in the march, the road narrowed and so the line of prisoners went from 5 abreast to 2 soldiers side-by-side. This resulted in the line of prisoners becoming much longer, which spread out the distance between Japanese guards. As the trail approached a gorge, my uncle and his friend placed themselves just behind the same Japanese guard and when they reached the gorge, they picked him up and threw him down the cliff to his death. When they reached the prison camp, the Japanese seemed puzzled that one of their soldiers went missing, but never suspected that he was assassinated by the American prisoners. They just reasoned that he'd deserted or went missing for some unknown reasons. Somehow my uncle survived 3 years' of depraved and sadistic captivity and he absolutely hated the Japanese until his dying day.

[@daddybob6096]

@Moist Mike. I am a Veteran Infantry soldier. My home is at northern Cebu Philippines . I know what the dirty B**t**ds did to the Filipino people. I tell every young Filipino kid i come to meet what they did to the citizens of the Philippines, coz they don't know. Soldiers do not do that to civilians. Lest We Forget. Robert. New Zealand.

[@Zhaleon0818]

Wow, what a story. . . 😮

[@Cornet_Tooter]

2 great uncles of mine died at the hands of the Japanese. One died fighting in Singapore and the other died in the camp building the bridges over the Kwai due to the awful conditions imposed by the Japanese. Addendum- They were in the 4th and 5th Batallions, Royal Norfolk Regiment of the British Army. We will remember them.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

Your great uncle was an amazing man. Sorry for your loss

[@michaelmeiers3639]

The Japanese during World War II were particularly hateable!

[@renee1961]

Nieves was an Incredibly Brave Woman!! Rest in Peace 💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🙏🙏🙏🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@rg20322]

She was such a hero and did everything to take the fight to the enemy! She is someone to look up to when fighting an occupation and the disgusting things that that Japanese did.

[@anthonyaustria5436]

A real Ada Wong during her days.

[@pkicng210]

I believe someone snitched on her to the Japanese. The guerilla communication was were tight that rarely used any radio.

[@andynkili672]

What a shame that after those bravery acts we don't hear much about her. @TheUntoldPast, THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

[@errickflesch5565]

There are literally hundreds of thousands of stories of brave and courageous people just in the past 80 years. How do you expect to keep up with all of them?

[@titocris4746]

She’s one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines! 🇵🇭

[@ltipst2962]

I'd like to know more about heroes from there tbh

[@Yjn75]

One I've never heard of! They don't talk about her in schools

[@marions.120]

@@Yjn75 -If she said she was a man today, they’d talk about her in school!

[@sidesaddleintobattle4984]

@@marions.120 nope, there were millions of men who died and no one talks about them. Clearly you are a flathead primitive

[@marions.120]

@@sidesaddleintobattle4984-I’m talking about the way things are today, no one seems to know their “pronoun” anymore.

[@Stax-ht9md]

:Good for you Nieves Fernandez, I am glad to have learned part of your story

[@renzogulle5422]

I though that I have read so much Philippine history especially during the WW2 years but this video really surprised me. This is the first time that I have known about her. She has been not mentioned in the history books I've read. She should be recognized as one of our heroes/ heroines. Mam Nieves THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SACRIFICE! I know it takes a lot of courage to skewer a person. I have a waray-waray blood myself and I feel proud to be her kababayan.

[@epsilonxvi5675]

@@captaincontent3343 .its true and real, stop watching hollywood propaganda. asian female soldier also the biggest contributor or victim of rape and confort woman in asia the US hide this since they failed to push back there enemy. If this are not true then why confort woman and death martch happen is because USA failed there promise they run away to come back and take credit with out reapect to this death soldier for there hollywood movie. It will happen again with China but worse since china has nuke.

[@debrapalmer9772]

What a woman! She should be celebrated as a national hero.

[@errickflesch5565]

She might be....in her country.

[@felipewerner6670]

@@errickflesch5565 thanks captain obvious. or do you really think shes gona be national hero in murica? lmao

[@Brian1952ful]

@@errickflesch5565 Stupid statement.

[@firewater3523]

@@felipewerner6670 yes, corporal oblivious, he was just keeping it real.

[@felipewerner6670]

@@firewater3523 thanks private, dismissed.

[@Corrie-Lee]

What an incredible and powerful woman. Thank you for telling her story

[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

A hero. The Japanese were absolute beasts and I never remember hearing an apology from them to this day for their barbaric brutalisation of our British soldiers

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

I saw the Death RR and the remains of "The Bridge" in Thailand. I've heard of the atrocities and yes, it's another level of emotions to see and touch...

[@janeholmes9374]

They never did and never will apologise . Thank God for the atomic bomb

[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

@@janeholmes9374 sorry no the atomic bomb was US power politics and an abomination also. So you're right the yanks have been as bad

[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

@@fredgervinm.p.3315 it's unthinkable. Our British working class lads with worried families back home experiencing that. Swept under the carpet

[@oceanhome2023]

It was Mac that made the decisions on who to try and who to investigate ! He DID get the invasion he wanted and he had a great affinity for the Filipino but that butted heads with his incipient Pan-Orientalism ! In the book “American Caesar” he revealed himself. He always felt that defeat Germany first was a bad idea because he felt the future was in the East , Europe was dead he thought and anything of importance would be in the East ! The women he desired to be with were either Filipino, Chinese or Japanese and not for just beauty because all of these women were successful in their own rights . The reason he did not come down harder was he felt that the Japanese didn’t know better because they had not marinated long enough in Western culture to internalize these Western values such as the Geneva Conventions . He also saw himself as the savior of the East and he constructed the Japanese Government into a Western one , for example when he demanded that the Parliament come up with a Constitution and after several attempts could not do it he got the smartest clerical workers on his staff to come up with one which he presented to the Parliament as “Here is Your Constitution ! Approve it ! He was involved in deciding who and what considered a War Crime , I am not defending him but this is where much of it comes from ! I recommend the book “American Caesar “ it blew me away when I read it .

[@elultimo102]

There is a woman who can be an inspiration to girls everywhere, but especially in her own country.

[@jonathannixon8652]

I must share this with my Filipino friends. I live near Daly City, California which is the second largest Filipino population outside of the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@ltipst2962]

Yes please :) also say hello from Britain if you get the chance

[@petrikokko1441]

A true hero.

[@Lesevesel]

This woman's story needs to be told to the world and loudly.

[@misterbig9025]

Japanese government doesn't allow this

[@furiacabocla2furiacabocla589]

Americans don´t like to tell the heroic history of asiatic womans.. The browns must not be encouraged how strong they could be or how many achievements they can goal. On American interest. Not even Bollywood tell the history of womans who cut mans necks, even the japanese, so nastly.. Womans must to fall down in lust, vanity and weakness. Look what they reach when they started to study and work hard. I agree the storie of female warriors must be told. But many mans, principally those more powerful, would not agree..

[@piciperkuadrik4636]

@@misterbig9025 1984

[@cwavt8849]

Absolutely! Get rid of racial propaganda and teach about real heros. This woman, without glamour shots and fawning news journalists, made Bruce Jenner look like a sissy before he chopped off his manhood 💪💞

[@MusMasi]

@@misterbig9025 how does the Japanese Government control the Media in other parts of the world?

[@paulshearer9140]

My wife is a Filipina and I can definitely believe this story. :)

[@renee1961]

Rest in Peace to the Innocent Victims, and Those That Fought for Them.💔💔💔🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️ God Bless Them, and The Survivors.💔🙏💔🙏💔🙏

[@micklaws5520]

Being in thePI during my youth,I met and knew Filipino people who had direct contact with the Japanese and saw and endured horrible crimes.

[@wendyqallab6906]

The Japanese were monsters. How such a cultured educated people became like this is beyond me.

[@micklaws5520]

@@wendyqallab6906 Theywere indoctrinated into believing anyone not Japanese was less than dirt.

[@ThePlataf]

@@wendyqallab6906 They were brutalised by a military regime for years before the war. Those in the army were taught that their lives had only one purpose - to die for their emperor. Recruits were treated savagely, hence by the time they were in actual battle, the lives of others meant zero to them.

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@ThePlataf Japan was ruled by military leaders (Shogun) for hundred years before Meiji Restoration in 1868. During 1930s the military dominated Japanese politics again. 🇯🇵

[@antonystable9464]

@@wendyqallab6906 Japan Germany and Italy should have won. We would have a better world and peace today. Look at the insanity of the world today and constant wars. You don't talk about that ! Communist China and Russian today at better rulers ? Because USA in is decline and Asia will Rule 21 century. Constant wars...since WW2. Patton famously said " we picked the wrong side, but I am a soldier and I fight to win" Millions died since ww2. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc..Now Russia and China will win. USA is in decline and a British and Isreali puppet gov't.

[@shamudogsmith1751]

Amazing woman! I can't make scrambled eggs yet this lady was making up grenades and assembling shot guns made out of gas pipes and then taking the fight to the enemy. She should be more well known for such heroic deeds. Thank you for this story, your channels are always interesting and informative, I've become a big fan.

[@errickflesch5565]

Don't cut yourself short. None of us know what we would do in that situation....until something like her situation happens and we become someone like her. If she never faced what she did.......no one would even remember her name except those that knew her like friends and family.....saying she was so sweet and kind to everyone and would never hurt a flea. We are all capable of anything at any time.......Survival sometimes will make us do things we could never imagine. She was brave.

[@theprinceoftides6836]

@@errickflesch5565 Truth. Well said.

[@blackprince4074]

Imagine the woke snowflakes of today in the same situation.

[@georgielancaster1356]

This is a new name to me. I wish I could have given her a hug, thanked her, and had enough money to pay for a grandchild's education. We owe her a lot.

[@ltipst2962]

Its not just her. People rose to the occasion throughout the allied nations and even the smallest of ranks would have had a mini leader. I just hope to be around like minded should anything happen again, and not power hungry attention seeker middle management nobs.

[@winstondeocampo699]

Thanks for sharing this. God I’m appalled that there’s no mention of her at all in Philippine history when I was growing up in the Philippines. She became a better ninja than the Japanese.

[@bladerunner5810]

Baba Yaga in a black dress....no heels.

[@earlgreco8636]

A true hero. May she be blessed.

[@dizdat790]

My dad was a Death March survivor. One of his many stories is this one, while he was walking through the hot and humid jungle with both Filipinos guerillas and American soldiers, they saw a famished Japanese soldier desperately looking for food. He surrendered and asked if he could have food to eat. They gave him food and then one of the American soldier took my dad aside and told my dad to kill the Japanese soldier after he ate. My dad refused to kill the surrendered Japanese soldier and walked away. But he also knew that they were gonna kill the Japanese soldier. That explains why sometimes my dad would invite hungry strangers on the streets to eat at our dinner table. He felt compassion for that Japanese soldier and realized that at the end of the day, we’re all the same and war is indeed ugly. My dad was a sniper in WWII.

[@COFFEEHEADJOHN]

Thanks for sharing your story and your fathers service.

[@joeburns4294]

@dizdat 790 I am reminded of a scene in Saving Private Ryan where two surrendering German soldiers with hands in the air were shot & killed on the spot by 2 American soldiers. This scene and scenarios similar were played out on all sides during the war. But taken out of context can be misjudged. These two soldiers had just miraculously survived the Notmandy landing on Omaha beach where they witnessed hundreds of their fellow soldiers mowed down like grass, some within seconds of the ramp coming down on their landing craft. In the case of the Japanese soldier you described, who knows what atrocities he participated in before his desertion. I wasn’t there, so I would not presume to judge the American who wanted to execute him. But at that point, Japanese treatment of the population as s whole and treatment of POW’s was certainly known. If it was determined that dragging him around would pose a security risk, etc., to the rest of the group, their choice was clear. The story’s of Japanese feigning surrender then attempting to kill their captor were widely known. I’m not talking about groups of POW’s deliberately lined up against a wall or made to kneel for a beheading. I’m talking about incidents that occur in the heat of combat or chance encounter where a split second wrong decision could jeopordize your unit. Easy for us to judge, but we weren’t there, so I would hesitate to do so.

[@packohub1145]

Actually japanese soldiers was more human.. It was korean soldiers was brutal most of them are prisoners from Japanese empire in korea

[@miladydewinter8551]

Yes of course. If you are attacked and someone is trying to kill you with immoral violence you are justified to resist with whatever force is necessary. But when someone is starving and asking for food or helpless there is no reason to kill them at all

[@7046463]

your dad is an upright sniper

[@ITIsFunnyDamnIT]

Wow, What an amazing and brave woman she was, and the lives she saved. Loves these hidden gem stories from WW2. A movie should be made about her. Thanks For sharing this.💯

[@xray86delta]

The Filipino gorillas were the best! They saved many U.S. soldiers. Their fighting beside American troops during the liberation of the Philippines was invaluable.

[@flojro]

guerrillas, and not gorillas.

[@theprinceoftides6836]

So true. Filipino guirrellas R up there with their Viet Cong counterpart when it comes to Guerilla warfare. But I also like to give credit to the brave American boys who also gave their lives fighting alongside the Filipino people in defence of the Philippines. My grandpa and great uncle fought with G.I.s in the battle of Leyte and Corrigedor. Filipino people will always always love and respect, and will never forget their American brothers who gave their lives for our country.

[@hoofgripweightlifting6872]

Also, Filipino gorillas are more handsome than African Diamond back gorillas.

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

@@hoofgripweightlifting6872 Not really,the Africans are more athletic and Hollywood material looks

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

guerilla. gorilla is the animal.

[@bbawalan]

I am a Filipino and I never heard of her in our WW2 history, thank you for this amazing video! It is sad that she was not recognized after the war, all her efforts and sacrifices are not even mentioned in our history, there are also a lot of Filipino`s who fought during the occupation of the Japanese that are also never heard of and those people who survived the hellish assault from the Japanese, all I heard is that they wanted to just kill them no matter the cost.

[@c-w-h]

People who have been oppressed and fought. Dont typically speak up. Unless you are one of them. You will never know the sacrifice of the unknown soldiers and spies. After learning how to survive from not being in the spotlight. Its hard for them to be confident to speak out.

[@aleciamiaric8799]

This is true. I’m a 90’s kid and all I can remember about WWII from how they told it in school was that the Japanese came, the Death March, torture, then Gen. McArthur liberated us. I cannot remember a notable Filipino figure spoken of during this era. 😢

[@twotwolow2343]

She was in history books u guys don't listen enough

[@Cybonator]

Bet the kids in her class were the best behaved kids in the world

[@geoffreycarson2311]

TRUE !!!!!!!!!You NEED FEAR NOW For the LITTLE Bastards 😳😀v

[@tudyk21]

That young man in the thumbnail is probably one of her former students! 🤣

[@novemberecho3899]

@@tudyk21 Actually that's an American soldier they used as a dummy where to attack but they didn't kill him literally

[@tudyk21]

@@novemberecho3899 🙄

[@emerlabra1934]

Thank you for sharing this bit of history, as a Filipino, I have an uncle whom I met when I was still an elementary 2nd grader student back in 1976. He was a WW2 guerilla vet, he survived the war but it left him maimed and disfigured for the rest of his remaining life. He told us that he was captured in '44 and was beaten and tortured by the Japs that resulted to him becoming a hunchback with a limp because of a broken leg. This Nieves Fernandez story should be made into a movie to show that women are also capable of such actions in dire times.

[@jamesdelk8926]

Few rare exceptionds yes not most or many

[@thomashartman4270]

Never mess with a Filipina, they are wonderful caring women, just don't tick them off, Mabuhay.

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

or a Vietnamese.

[@americanandpinay]

So true.

[@jamescasey3760]

May God bless her. What a great woman

[@ryudragonpunch9025]

I can attest as a History Major with a concentration in Military Studies, I’ve never in any of my studies and research during my undergrad have ever heard of this phenomenal pinay. I am thoroughly intrigued and proud of this relatively unknown portion of Filipino history. She was truly a hero and a badass for sure.

[@Tiisiphone]

Such a brave woman!

[@deanpd3402]

Sometimes in history, we have to face up and be prepared to die. That generation was indeed the greatest.

[@davidbaker4702]

This brave woman deserves a special seat in heaven !!!

[@butchyshoe]

She is in heaven and that is a special place !!! What a great story !!!

[@scouseaussie1638]

@@butchyshoe How do you know this?

[@Kopie0830]

She killed a lot of people. Thou shall not kill. Checkmate.

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

or VALHALLA

[@Nettsinthewoods]

Thank you, I didn’t know about this amazing woman. People herald the Japanese society, but we must never forget how they behaved during wartime. It grieves me to some extent that, as a nation, they refuse to acknowledge what they did to both prisoners and innocent civilians.

[@mellamojeff458]

So are you gonna do the same for Balkan countries and Ukraine?

[@Nettsinthewoods]

@@mellamojeff458 the subject of my comment was www and Japan

[@lifes40123]

she has a spanish name. spain raped and murdered filipinos to the point where they were forced to convert into christians and adopt spanish names. people herald spanish and american society, but we must never forgot how they behaved during centuries of colonial expansion.

[@Nettsinthewoods]

I know what happens during conflict, the next person will say to me that the Russians murdered and raped their way to Berlin, which they did. It’s horrific! My comment is that 1. I admire a woman for fighting back (whoever she is and wherever she came from) to do that took tremendous courage especially as she made close contact, and 2. That there are generations of Japanese who have no knowledge of what their soldiers did because, for the shame of it, the government prevents the teaching of it in schools and elsewhere. Many Japanese don’t know why the Americans dropped two nuclear bombs on innocent civilians

[@lifes40123]

@@Nettsinthewoods who cares if those japanese generations dont know. they're not violent people anymore unlike americans who kill each other on a daily basis

[@CatNyan30]

It's so surreal to see my university in WW2 era photos... the place where I have lectures was also one of the largest POW camps in the Philippines

[@jerryeinstandig7996]

santo thomas, robin persig wrote a great book about being imprisoned there.

[@queenboudicca31]

The Japanese army was brutal to both enemy forces and civilians...especially women. The Chinese people were treated the same way.

[@ThePlataf]

They were brutal to everyone. They gang-raped then machine gunned a group of Australian nurses. They raped and tortured women in the Pacific Islands, and their treatment of POWS was beyond description.

[@georgielancaster1356]

Yes. People can search for Nurse Vivian Bullwinkle and her story. And Ben Hackney, a young Army officer who was the only survivor of a Japanese slaughter of surrendered Allied soldiers. His evidence postwar, led to 3 Japs being han ged for war crimes. We don't know how many mass acres were completely successful. If nobody survived, nobody could give evidence, and the soldiers were just recorded as disappeared. Ben Hackney would never name the men he saw tortured - he said if people knew what their son, brother or husband went through, they might lose their mind. But there is also a sickening but hard to find report of Japanese also resorting to cann ibalism which included 3 American airmen killed TO eat! Most of the time, it was reported that the Japs liked to eat the back of the thigh. But there were English and Australian men who were left behind, early on, to work with natives and live rough in the jungle and report back. The Xtian missionaries had convinced the Papua New Guineans to stop their traditional cann ibalism and they were told Japanese didn't count and they would get a reward for every Jap. That small group of men left behind, reported a large number of enemy deaths... What went on, done by Japanese, is truly shocking. Very worth reading about, but at times, it is truly sickening and distressing. Believe me, if you actually research what was happening in the Pacific, the Japs are easily as bad as the Germans at their worst. They just did not have anything so well organised. They just killed and tortured and starved savagely randomly. Depended on the savagery of the officer in charge. Many war cri minals are worshipped ancestors, back in Japan.

[@thealternativeview2692]

Well the bomb put them in their place!

[@misterbig9025]

Why were they so brutal?

[@outbackgearforu]

And the Chinese haven’t forgotten

[@suzy-qtravels9202]

She is my new hero!!!!! She successfully defended herself and her kids!!!!

[@matthewortiz7223]

When you love your Country so much. You'll fight with hate..now adays people just run like cockroaches to America... I respect This Lady..

[@williamtolliver7912]

Why is the word 'slaughtered' used in the title of this video! She and her fellow guerrillas killed enemy soldiers in combat--they were not unarmed hapless victims!. Use of the word 'slaughtered' demeans and insults her valiant efforts against a barbaric enemy. Change the title!!

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

👍👌

[@aquaman7356]

For what it’s worth, I gave a thumbs down, and clicked on “don’t recommend channel ” Correct usage of words matter.

[@misteryoung1934]

If she personally killed over 200 soldiers, then slaughtered is accurate. Modern soldiers don't have that kind of kill count.

[@buttnakedsnake9357]

@@aquaman7356 worth nothing

[@johnsullivan186]

Slaughter: The killing of a large number of people; a massacre. It's used here because it's correct.

[@dirk7816]

The Nieves Fernandez would be an excellent name for a warship. Her name would bring strength and honor to that ship.

[@LaserRanger15]

Wow, amazing story. Certainly a true freedom fighter.

[@rolandsingh]

This is one Awesome, Courageous Lady. I did not know about her, until seeing this Video. Thank you, immensely❣ Roland Singh, Canada 🇨🇦

[@renee1961]

Good morning, and as ALWAYS, Thank You.

[@cierakitty]

The teacher "slaughtered" soldiers ? Looks to me like she was saving people from these soldiers.

[@tudyk21]

By slaughtering the soldiers. 200 of them.

[@awomanmotherw2kids393]

What a beautiful and badass woman!

[@derbyshirewalker]

What a true heroin….her story must not be forgotten. I live in the Philippines (Mindanao) with my Filipino wife and have never heard this story. Thank you for sharing. 🇬🇧🇵🇭

[@pretty_gay23]

Im a filipino yet i have no idea about her,im a reader as well but our texbooks never mentioned her,so sad😥but they keep on insisting that ninoy aquino is which every1 doubted including me(for personal reasons,eh!😕) ,im not in2 politics anyway😊🇵🇭

[@davekreitzer4358]

Great video , thanks for sharing !

[@bigalsnow8199]

My dad fought in ww2 against the Japanese. He was a kind and peaceful man before and after the war who got along with everyone...except Japanese. He hated them and spoke of " them little motha f--kers" calling them cruel and spiteful. He spent over 20 years in the military and retired with 2 purple heart's 💜 and metals for marksmanship, ect. He never talked to us about his experience and urged his sons not to join the military.

[@flojro]

I just wonder why we have not read about this in our Philippine history books. But anyway, she is a hero during the war. Also, the Japanese committed grave atrocities as what I've heard from those that experienced the war. The two atomic bombs dropped in Japan is not enough as punishment.

[@ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE]

Her husband walked very cautiously around her.

[@geoffreycarson2311]

SO DID MY DAD !!!lol g

[@nandinishinde2258]

This lady is the stuff that born leaders are made of in times of war.Was she awarded by her country after the war,in recognition of her incredible brave resistance against the enemy?.There should be a film on her heroic exploits.

[@ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE]

@@nandinishinde2258 Respect.

[@moose6144]

Thank you for bringing this incredibly brave lady too light I don’t know why we are never taught this in school but these are real heroes not the people that we call heroes today that play a sport

[@jamesdelk8926]

Many men are heros today police military security women and fire department are toxic man hating feminist these women were not but many try to fit in men's jobs but non feminist that did these wouldn't let them then now now non feminist are siding with feminist or they would be considered mysognist women today are misandry meaning against men

[@jamesdelk8926]

So yes today's women and men like you say are not the heros that play the sport cause they are too toxic and others Karen's and Becky's in them

[@scoutman]

As an american war vet i live here now with my filipina sweetheart.we started process for her to acquire her firearms license here.shes been practicing at range..i teach her martial arts at gym.wont let her be defenseless or a target after im gone.not a fan of china after spending 2yrs there.they are not to be trusted.this asean theater needs to be prepared,ready

[@randomobserver8168]

I'm going to assume this is a well known story in the Philippines but kudos for bringing what is probably an unknown story in the West, to the attention of a wider audience. Nieves Fernandez sounds like she was the best kind of ordinary person who not only found their role in wartime, but excelled at the roles they found to the lasting benefit of their countries. I like to think she went back to being a teacher and merchant after the war and was always found to be kind to her students and fair to her customers. And found peace and happiness. With good fortune, the Philippines will not again need to find people like her, but she gives a fine example to any who might need to rise to similar occasions again.

[@americanandpinay]

Nope. Better known in the west.

[@pkicng210]

The use of the bolo or machete for killing is not without training in Arnis or Eskrima. How she had the knowledge of manufacturing grenades and other IED is a highly trained individual in demolitions. Being a marksman, not a sniper or sharpshooter, is not without some form of training. How did she get her training? It is just amazing that the Japanese history has not acknowledge their atrocities of the son of heaven, especially the rapes of the women in countries like China, Korea, Philippines and other islands.

[@ddoherty5956]

Container, powder, projectiles and fuse. The first grenades were made from glass and used for clearing ship decks in the Napoleonic wars.

[@pkicng210]

@@user-nw4tv6hg3t Not in those days in the Philippines. The oppressors, The Spaniards that invaded the Philippines, forbade, every firearm that are in the hands of the Filipinos. But in 1898, the Americans were so distrustful of Filipinos that its hard to say. But the Americans treated us Filipinos just a tad better. Maybe this is where Miss Fernandez began to train. with a rifle.

[@silverbackag9790]

Nice to learn about her; no need to repeat everything 3-4 times because you couldn’t dig up enough material.

[@christophernogowski517]

Never ever underestimate the strength of a woman that is an incredible story strength confidence and no fear amazing

[@clementevaldez1271]

A true patriot....never forget this warrior...

[@AlexanderJoneshttps]

Fuck Patroism

[@thebob3712]

replace Philippines with Vietnam and japanese with americans and would you still be calling her a true patriot?

[@nillyk5671]

That's a real veteran! That's a real hero.

[@douglasjones2570]

Great lady. Great story. Thank you!

[@jultolentino7515]

Thank you for this channel for remembering this great woman,like our mother shes really great.salam

[@shirleylake7738]

This is the 1st time I have heard of her. My father served in the Army aircore,13th division from 1942 to 1944 2yrs 2mos and 2days. He was in the Philippines and they were hopped around eight different islands.

[@robr2389]

Wow!! Had never heard of her before that I can recall. That woman deserves more accolades and recognition than the Philippines or the United States or any other Allied nation could give her. I think EVERY nation in times or war, declared or not, has committed atrocities. The United States isn't immune from it's own atrocities. I think every country ever involved has their own guilt to carry.

[@errickflesch5565]

Umm, sorry. The Japs were above and beyond a special kind of brutality and atrocious behavior. As far as accolades, she is and was brave.....but there are hundreds of thousands of stories of brave and courageous people in just the last 80 years alone.

[@robr2389]

@@errickflesch5565 That's very true. And the vast majority go without recognition. The Japs were beyond brutal. Agree with that. Saw something just recently about what they did in Nanking. Narrator said their actions stunned and horrified even the Nazis.

[@errickflesch5565]

@@robr2389 I believe you can KZbin "The raping of Nanking" Throwing babies in the air and bayoneting them on the way down.

[@robr2389]

@@errickflesch5565 I know Errick. I've seen at least one documentary on it. I can't remember how many were estimated to have perished.

[@lifes40123]

@@errickflesch5565 nah, ure just defending US crimes because you're an apologist. talk to native americans or african americas and they will tell you how brutal, exploitive, and atrocious white americans were for centuries.

[@rl8571]

My grandparents were both fighters along with my grand uncles in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation. They never shared stories. I imagine anyone who survived that time has seen alot people they know killed and they themselves have killed a lot as well. No one wants to remember that.

[@DWBurns]

Should make a movie about her, a real badass who saved many from a horrible death. Teach kids real history. She was a real hero who deserves to be remembered and honored.

[@tonysouthdakotah6774]

There were a couple of old Japanese soldiers discovered in the early/mid 1990s still living in the jungle mountains on Mindanao. They weren’t even aware the war had ever ended. They survived all that time, 50 years, without contact with other humans. I still find that amazing.

[@tonysouthdakotah6774]

@@Threaopolieze I believe my military travels to more than a dozen countries and experiencing many many cultures has shown me quite a bit, so take your condescending comment and shove it.

[@FsimulatorX]

I think you are confusing it with the story of the lone Japanese soldier discovered in the 1970s, not 1990s.

[@williamallencrowder361]

They do NOT make them like her anymore. Sadly NO American woman would do it

[@andywells397]

Dont be so sure.

[@terywetherlow7970]

I stored her Technique.

[@andrewdinkel5900]

You should read about Claire Phillips. A true American hero of WWII.

[@richardhart9204]

... good for her. She out Ninja'd the Japanese.

[@brakeduster]

What a great and admirable story of bravery in resistance. And gosh, you wouldn't think to look at her what she is capable of. That's an amazing woman!

[@pushi1735]

Why do you ppl disrespect women so much? Any woman can be capable.

[@rallycsx]

It is said that when she was angry she would get big and green and bullets would bounce off her skin. Absolutely incredible woman! All true and not war propaganda at all I swear!

[@GoodNeighborJon]

Why are we getting lying, propaganda movies like “The Woman King”, when there are amazing, true stories like this that could be produced into movies?

[@romanfilonoff2352]

Thanks author for sharing such incredible stories.

[@larrylarry5300]

Never give up your guns.

[@Toolgdskli]

Why is she not much popular in the world? Her story will make a very good movie, much better than the western feminist movies.

[@kevinklien6582]

I agree. Stories like this need to be told so everyone knows how brave people took it apon themselves to make a difference.

[@billmalone5050]

That was one tough as hell, bad ass, intelligent and courageous woman. I never knew about her and the men that she led against the Japanese forces who invaded and occupied the Philippines during WW 2.

[@johnronald6115]

I guess the kids in her class....listened.😮

[@norseman5041]

She did not slaughter anyone, she killed enemy combatants, that is not slaughter. Slaughter is a term used for criminal events, where the killed ones have no possibility of resistance. She was in her full right killing these men, and they would have done exactly the same to her given the chance.

[@craiggleason8386]

Good for her, a true hero

[@bunkerking73]

As a Filipino mu grandparents never talked about the fighting they had to do to survive during WWII other than my grandfather telling me about the time the Japanese were mortaring them but they were in a defalade and were perfectly safe so they played cards until the Japanese stopped because they ran out of ammo. My grandparents always said to me if I ever dated a Japanese girl they'd disown me....

[@lacostetv197]

Dapat tinagalog mo na lng ✌️✌️🤣🤣

[@163pete]

What the Japanese did to the Filipinos cannot even be spoken of. I can’t say I approve but I can say I can understand why you did what you did!

[@JT-cf5ol]

every nation has its horrible past, its human nature. The only times people can relax is when good and Godly people are in leadership positions. That rarely happens.

[@thomasfoley8316]

Out standing women . God bless

[@amparo37jimenez76]

There should be a film featuring the bravery of this heroine teacher. She displayed courage and bravery during those turbulent times and it is only worthy to emulate her memory by creating a film depicting her bravery. To serve as an inspiration for the FILIPINO WOMEN OF TODAY.

[@johnconnick5308]

This is one very tough and very brave lady indeed. Wish there more stories like this, as I truly like watching these sort of videos.

[@mattfraser3452]

The Philippine Army in Korea were Incredible !

[@rickprice6312]

What a courageous lady. The movie "Surrender Hell" has a fictionalized depiction of her. I lived in Manila in the mid-70s. I was just a kid and everyone called me "Joe." It bothered me at the time, but in hindsight I see it was a term of affection. My Japanese friends from school weren't so lucky. They were just, plain despised. As a Boy Scout, camped at Bataan and Corregidor. Pretty somber. We had to be careful about unexploded ordnance, shells were frequently found. I think about the Philippines often. Beautiful place with friendly people. I sure hope things go well there.

[@TeaParty1776]

IMBD's review of "Surrender Hell" does not mention her.

[@rickprice6312]

@@TeaParty1776 You have to actually watch the movie. The movie focuses on the U.S. Army officer, but the leader of the guerilla group he joins is an older lady. Again, a fictionalized depiction.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@rickprice6312 A library is getting it for me.

[@adamg574]

Children there will still call you “Joe” if you’re a white guy who they usually assume to be American, it’s not meant in a negative way or anything, just a slang term for foreigners. I found it funny.

[@rikijett310]

God bless you Captain Fernandez!!!! ✝️🇺🇲✝️

[@albacan]

What a hero. The perfect end for any man of war.

[@dgodrummer8110]

my wife tells the story of her grandmother who, when the Japanese invaded, gathered all she could from the home, and being a seamstress, was determined to haul the Singer sewing machine. The family hauled the sewing machine thru the jungle as they fled into and lived in the jungle. trading sewing for rice with others that had also fled and were living in the jungle. THAT sewing machine is still in her parents home today. She also tells the story of herself, living in a girls dorm while in college in the late 1990's . The dorm was a former WWII hospital. It was not uncommon for the girls to encounter American WWII ghosts wandering the halls of that building.

[@TheFunkhouser]

Good on her!!❤

[@alexcarter8807]

To give an idea of how small she was physically, that rifle on her shoulder where she's showing how she'd cut a guy's throat, is an M1 Carbine, which is a very small rifle. They're not much bigger than a Red Ryder BB gun.

[@supercalifragilestic]

can't deal with this guy's intonation, quit after 2mins

[@Aussiedavid71]

She's a hero. Filipinos are very strong and brave. What a legend ❤️

[@FlaRoughneck]

Would love it if they made a movie of her.