In December 1938, a military vehicle stormed the University of the Philippines, and several native soldiers arrested a law student on charges of murder. The freshman is the famous dictatorial president Marcos in history, who joined the U.S.-Philippine coalition in World War II, received 27 medals and medals, and was elected president of the Philippines in 1965, ruling the Philippines for 20 years.
On December 12, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army was unstoppable, soon landed in the Philippines, did not encounter any decent resistance, and entered Manila. After being released from prison, Marcos threw himself into the war that changed his fate.
The U.S.-Philippines coalition retreated to the Bataan Peninsula to maintain a protracted confrontation with the invading forces. Marcos volunteered to stay behind to scout the enemy. Fierce and vengeful, Marcos took advantage of the reconnaissance opportunity to find The Main Witness, Calisto, who accused him of murder. It was this man's testimony that almost put himself in jail for the rest of his life. Marcos and several of his comrades broke into Calisto's house.
Before Calisto could understand what was going on, he was dragged out of the house. Marcos announced to the onlookers that Calisto had robbed the bank during the war and was sentenced to death and executed immediately. However, Marcos said that Calisto had been shot by the guerrillas for collaborating with the enemy.
Marcos did not escape the Japanese pursuit, and in 1942 he was captured by the Japanese army and experienced the famous "death march" in history. It was the height of summer, malaria was raging, and the Japanese army took more than 50,000 American and Filipino prisoners to the concentration camp, resulting in more than 40,000 people being crippled. Marcos fell ill with malaria on the way, leaving only a skeleton and on the verge of crippling, and the priest in the camp even gave him the final Mass, but he miraculously survived.
Marcos was later arrested by the Japanese secret police, and was beaten, watered, overpowered and other tortures that made Marcos pretend to agree to lead the way to arrest Filipino spies, fortunately, on the way to lead the way, he encountered a Filipino anti-Japanese guerrilla group and was rescued.
Marcos returned to the 14th Infantry Division of the United States and the Philippines as an intelligence officer, and since then he has fought bravely against the enemy and made many military achievements. At one point, the coalition intercepted intelligence that the philippine puppet government would flee to Japan, preparing to form a government-in-exile in Japan. Marcos led a commando team to the side of the road leading to the airport and planted mines. When Marcos saw the car passing through the telescope, he ordered the detonation of the mine, and the Japanese soldiers escorting the convoy were blown up on their backs. Marcos also led and directed American sabotage experts to carry out large-scale sabotage of bridges, highways, etc.
On another occasion, the headquarters of the 14th Guerrilla Regiment was raided by the Japanese, and Marcos, who was hospitalized, also jumped from his hospital bed and took part in the battle against the enemy. The Japanese were forced to retreat, but Marcos was also wounded and shot in the thigh, and Marcos endured the pain of digging out the bullets and heroically pursuing the enemy until the reinforcements arrived.
Meanwhile, his father, Marliano, was captured by the Japanese, who refused to reveal Marcos's whereabouts and was executed by the Japanese. Marcos was very sad to learn of his father's murder. He requested to be transferred to Volckerman's headquarters and then searched everywhere for his father's body, but was not found.
In 1945, Japan officially signed the instrument of surrender, and the Japanese army in the Philippines surrendered to the Allies, and Marcos became an anti-Japanese hero at the age of 27.
When Marcos was elected president of the Philippines in 1965, he began to amass wealth and control tens of billions of dollars worth of assets. He also designated his wife as his successor, and his sons, brothers, and other senior officials such as governors and ministers were all governors. As his term of office expired, he declared martial law throughout the country and shot and killed opposition leader Aquino, provoking national outrage. In February 1986, Marcos was ousted by the angry Countrymen and fled to the United States for refuge, ending his ups and downs.