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Do you have a source about Col. Yay?

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Do you have a source about Col. Yay?

Apparently it is forbidden to create a Wiki about her. She has a circa 1950 autobiography that was recently reprinted by Rutgers University Press titled The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla

The book is expensive but the original and re-issue are available at public libraries via interlibrary loan.

Here is a link to the re-issue: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Crucible.html?id=dPzaSf7VmrUC

Amazon also has the re-issue: http://www.amazon.com/The-Crucible-Autobiography-Filipina-Guerrilla/dp/0813546826

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From the LATimes, 8/1945:

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Col. Yay's story is a Hollywood dream except for her show stopping pro-Americanism.

If it wasn't for her pro-Americanism, she's a non-white heroine, a reporter, a spy, is respected by her men, leads and kicks male butt in battle and even has romance. What more could Hollywood ask for in a script? If it just wasn't for her pro-Americanism.

Here's the dust cover from her original book: