A local from Nueva Ecija, Pajota joined the USAFFE guerrillas during the retreat from Bataan. By all accounts he was a small but sure and steady man, a natural leader and a brilliant tactician.

It turns out that “USAFFE” stood for the United States Army Forces in the Far East and he was a veteran of the U.S. military who fought during World War II.

NBI Director Virgilio Mendez said USAFFE’s leader Atty. Ely Pamatong has many friends in the south. “We want to check the scope of this group, the people around him and who are his affiliates.

The USAFFE defenders in Bataan were outnumbered and outgunned by seasoned combatants of the Imperial Japanese Army, which was supported by war ships, bombers, and fighter planes, ...

Every month, an average of 300 World War II veterans pass away according to Melinda Luna, Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) Veterans Records Management Division chief. As of March 2015 ...

Why the three “commandos” of Usaffe ended up at the airport when their marching orders from Pamatong was supposedly to retake the Spratlys from the Chinese is still a mystery. Pamatong himself denies ...

Pamatong claimed that he ordered Grandeur Pepito Guerrero, chief of staff of the 13-year-old USA Freedom Fighters of the East (Usaffe) to organise a group, hire a boat and invade several Chinese ...

Lawyer Ely Pamatong, the self proclaimed commander of the so-called United States Allied Freedom Fighters of the East (USAFFE), vowed yesterday to retake islands occupied by China in the disputed ...

The Battle of Bataan was fought on Jan. 7-April 9, 1942, or 74 years ago, by the Usaffe (US Armed Forces in the Far East) commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. It was the most intense phase of Japan’s ...

He joined the US Armed Forces in the Far East (Usaffe) in 1941. His family and supporters, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran like him, ...

Referring to his group, Pamatong said, “The Armed Forces of the Philippines accredited Usaffe when I organised it as an anticommunist paramilitary organisation.” “It is a large group composed of ...