1. Guy O Fort was a brigadier general in the Philippine Army under the control of the United States Army Forces in the Far East.
22 Facts About Guy Fort
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Guy Fort's captors demanded Fort help persuade his former soldiers engaged in guerrilla warfare to stop resisting the occupation.
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Guy Fort is the only American-born general officer to be executed by enemy forces.
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Guy Osborne Fort was born in 1879 to Jacob Marvin Fort and Lena Fulkerson in Kellerville, Michigan, in an area now known as Traverse City.
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The family later moved to Gloversville, New York, where Guy Fort enlisted in the US Army in 1899.
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Guy Fort settled in the Philippines with his first wife, Marguerite Eugine Guy Fort, who died in 1927 shortly after giving birth to their second son.
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Guy Fort later married again, with his second wife Mary Angeles Adams dying at the start of World War II.
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Guy Fort's great-granddaughter was Filipina child actress, singer and model Julie Vega.
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Guy Fort regularly wrote home to family in Gloversville, and during the 1930s said he considered retiring and returning to the United States.
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Guy Fort served for three years in the 4th US Cavalry in the Philippines before being discharged in 1902.
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In particular, Guy Fort was known among the Americans as an expert on the Moro people.
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That month Guy Fort was sent to Bohol to take command of the 81st Division.
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On December 20,1941, Guy Fort was promoted to brigadier general.
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Guy Fort took his division to Lanao province in Mindanao where he organized and outfitted several battalions of Moro soldiers and planned a defense in depth for his sector.
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Guy Fort's surrender was fiercely opposed by the Maranao and other Moro people in Mindanao.
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However, despite surrendering Guy Fort let the Maranaos claim the US Army's rifles and equipment, which they would then use in guerrilla warfare.
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Guy Fort was then escorted by the Kempeitai to Manila, where he remained for several months.
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In November 1942 the Japanese sought Guy Fort's help in talking to the Moro people, who had started a new rebellion against the occupying forces.
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Specifically, Guy Fort was supposed to tell the Moro that since the US Army had surrendered they must surrender.
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Guy Fort was brought from Manila back to Marawi on Mindanao to tell the Moro to surrender.
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Guy Fort was then paraded through the city of Dansalan and executed by a firing squad under the order of Lt.
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Guy Fort is the only American-born general officer to be executed by enemy forces.