Editing Cavite (section)

===Japanese occupation===
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In May 1942, after the fall of [[Bataan]] and [[Corregidor Island]], the [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese Imperial forces]] occupied Cavite and made their presence felt in each town of the province and Cavite City itself, as well as in the young city of Tagaytay established in the 1930s.

After surviving the [[Bataan Death March]] and released from [[Capas, Tarlac]] concentration camp [[United States Army Forces in the Far East]] (USAFFE) Col. [[Mariano Castañeda]], returned to Cavite and secretly organized the guerilla forces in the province.

The Japanese authorities pressured him to accept the position as Provincial Governor of Cavite, he refused many times over until his excuses did not work, much against his will he was forced to accept the position by the Japanese, and by thinking that it would be beneficial to further organize the resistance movement as Governor by day and a guerilla commander by night. Eventually, the Japanese discovered his guerilla connection and raided his house in the attempt to capture him, but he escaped along with Col. Lamberto Javalera by swimming the Imus river up to Salinas, [[Bacoor]] and finally joined his comrades in the field in Neneng, the General Headquarters of the Fil American Cavite Guerilla Forces (FACGF) located in [[Dasmariñas]].

At this time due to his organizational skills the FACGF raised a regiment in each of the administrative units and also created attached special battalions. Overall, three special battalions, one medical battalion, one signal company, one hospital unit, and Division GHQ and Staff were raised to provide administrative and combat support. Later on, the FACGF, with a peak of 14,371 Enlisted Men and 1,245 officers, grew into a formidable force to take on the omnipresent rule of the Japanese in the province. At its peak the force contained 14 infantry regiments:

*1st Infantry Regiment, Imus (Col. Lorenzo Saulog)
*2nd Infantry Regiment, Bacoor (Col. Francisco Guererro)
*3rd Infantry Regiment, Silang (Col. Dominador Kiamson) 
*4th Infantry Regiment, Dasmariñas (Col. Estanislao Mangubat Carungcong)
*5th Infantry Regiment, Barangay Anabu, Imus (Col. Raymundo Paredes)
*6th Infantry Regiment, Cavite City (Col. Amado Soriano)
*7th Infantry Regiment, Alfonso (Col. Angeles Hernais)
*8th Infantry Regiment, Naic (Col. Emilio Arenas)
*9th Infantry Regiment, Mendez (Col. Maximo Rodrigo)  
*10th Infantry Regiment Kawit (Col. Hugo Vidal) 
*11th Infantry Regiment Imus (Col. Maximo Reyes)
*12th Infantry Regiment, Amadeo (Col. Daniel Mediran) 
*13th Infantry Regiment, Rosario (Col. Ambrosio Salud)
*14th Infantry Regiment, Brgy. Paliparan, Dasmariñas (Col. Emiliano De La Cruz)

On January 31, 1945, the liberation of the province of Cavite started with the combined forces of the American 11th Airborne Division under General Joseph Swing and Col. Harry Hildebrand and the valiant Caviteño guerilleros of the Fil-American Cavite Guerilla Forces, which liberated the province of Cavite from the Japanese occupiers, and protected at all costs the National Highway 17 (Aguinaldo Highway) from [[Tagaytay]] City to [[Las Piñas]] that serve as the vital supply route of the U.S. 11th Airborne Division, paving the way towards the road to the bitter but victorious [[Battle of Manila (1945)|Battle of Manila]].