Reviews for Oklahoma Renegades Their Deeds and Misdeeds

The average rating for Oklahoma Renegades Their Deeds and Misdeeds based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-17 00:00:00 Matthew Ahearn Lieutenant Ramsey's War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander by Edwin Price Ramsey is a remarkable military memoir, which inspires the reader with the author's personal tussle with the hardships of war and overcoming them with courage, sense of duty and the extremes of human endurance. This is a book, which while describing the personal story of Ed Ramsey will introduce the reader to the South West Pacific theatre of World War II and the engagements between Allied forces and Japan. When the Japanese forces invaded The Commonwealth of the Philippines on 8th December 1941, Philippines was under the control of United States of America. Ed Ramsey was a U.S. Army cavalry officer in the 26th Cavalry Regiment, Philippine Scouts at that time. When the Japanese Invasion came, the 24 years old Ed Ramsey - with only a few months of active duty until then - found his dreams of seeking an exotic foreign post, rich with tropical plants, polo ponies, fawning servants and dusky women turning upside down with the merciless realities of war. His first act of courage came on January 16, 1942 while covering the withdrawal of U.S. and Filipino forces into the Bataan Peninsula on Luzon. At the village of Morong, Ramsey led 27 members of his mounted unit against hundreds of Japanese troops in a mission aimed at delaying the advancing enemy forces. Inspiring and fueling his vastly outnumbered men with bravery alone he and his troop audaciously charged at the enemy, with their heads low over their horses' necks and madly firing their pistols, and successfully drove back the advancing Japanese infantry while defending the village for five arduous hours in mayhem of blood and fire. This brave engagement at Morong will be remembered forever, as it was the last horse-mounted cavalry charge in the US military history. But his epic life story contributing to the history of Philippines and the course of war at the pacific theater of World War II was only beginning. When the combined American-Filipino army acknowledged their defeat in April 1942, Ed Ramsey did not surrender; he eluded capture by the Japanese and joined with Col. Claude Thorp who was organizing a guerrilla resistance force out of what left of American & Filipino army. 'Lieutenant Ramsey's War' from this point onwards describes in detail how a clever and resourceful junior officer grew within the ranks of this guerrilla army and led them for three years in activities of subterfuge and sabotage against the Japanese - all the while braving his own personal war against malaria, anemia, and acute malnutrition and infection - until the return of regular American forces in 1945. The book captures the gripping and often poignant moments from these guerrilla warfare days - days rife with bravery, survival, action, misery, fear and mortal danger - with splendid simplicity. 'Lieutenant Ramsey's War' is an incredible book that blends both historical and personal moments. This is not just a war memoir, it also gives the reader insights into some key moments from Ramsey's personal life - like the death of his father and its effect on the family; his close relationship with his mother and sister; their struggles to keep up with life; the story of his brave sister pursuing her dream of becoming a pilot; circumstances which led to his career as a cavalry officer- which allows him to understand Ed Ramsey both as a person and as a military hero. I conclude this review with an excerpt from an Interview, which he gave in 2001. "I look back and think of myself as a soldier, not as a hero, I just had a temperament that made it impossible for me to surrender."

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-29 00:00:00 Jeffry Kang In some ways, this is a standard US WW2 memoir. But, Ramsey ended up taking a major role in the Philippine resistance movement in central Luzon during the Japanese occupation, so his story is much different, and this book was published far later than many other memoirs. For those who are not fans of Douglas MacArthur, the story of Ramsey's non-meeting with him makes a great anecdote. In the strange coincidence department, I actually read the comic book version of the story in 1964, many years before this book was published.