Demanding immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, more than 1,000 GIs marched through the streets of Killeen, Texas, May 15. The demonstration was organized by the Ft. Hood Spring Offensive Committee. The significant turnout might have been even larger had the brass not restricted hundreds of GIs to base and placed them on "riot duty."
On May 16, 1,300 people, including more than 600 GIs from Ft. Bliss, gathered in McKelligon Canyon in El Paso, Texas, for a peace festival.
More than 1,000 people, including about 150 active-duty sailors, marched around the Great Lakes Navy training base in Chicago May 15 and then attended a rally in Foss Park, adjacent to the base.
More than 6,000 people, led by a contingent of 25 active-duty GIs, marched in Salt Lake City May 15 in the largest antiwar action ever held there.
On May 17 there was a smaller but not insignificant GI antiwar action. A tiny item in the May 18 New York Times reported that 31 GIs had been arrested while peacefully demonstrating in Seoul, South Korea, against the Vietnam war. "The soldiers, from military camps in and around Seoul," the Times reported, "were all clad in civilian clothes, many of them dressed like hippies. They wore black armbands," the report continued, "and chanted `peace now, peace now.' "<
May 25, 1946
It has been reported that 20,000 armed peasants are at this
moment waging civil war in the Philippines. They are revolting not
only against their U.S. imperialist masters, but also against the
native capitalists and landlords who for years have enslaved and
exploited them. This agrarian revolt is being led by the
Hukbalahaps, a guerrilla movement organized in 1935 with the
avowed purpose of taking the land from the landed aristocracy and
dividing the big estates among the peasants.
When the Japanese overran the Philippine Islands, the Hukbalahaps conducted extensive guerrilla warfare against the invaders and made every attempt to coordinate their forces with those of the regular Filipino and American armies. But [Gen. Douglas] MacArthur waged a ruthless campaign against the Hukbalahaps, for while these peasant fighters opposed Japanese imperialism, they refused to abandon their struggle against the native landlords.
The American military has established a puppet guerrilla organization known as USAFFE (United States Army Forces in the Far East) and is now sending it into the Luzon hills on punitive expeditions. On May 11, a six-hour battle between the Hukbalahaps and the USAFFE took place near Cabanatuan. At least three peasant fighters were killed.