File No. 60: Marcos’ invented heroism
THE U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. is home to the Philippine Archives Collection. Within that collection is File No. 60, which documents Ferdinand E. Marcos’s claim of being a guerilla leader and founder of a guerilla unit called “Ang Manga Maharlika” with thousands of men in its roster from 1942 to 1945 in Northern Luzon. Marcos himself later changed it to “Ang Mga Maharlika.”
