M1917 Enfield .30 Caliber Bolt Action Rifles M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles M1923 Thompson Submachineguns M1917 Browning Machineguns TNT Charges Col. Albert Christie G2 Intelligence LCol Nicolas VelardoLCol Tomas Cabili G3 Operations LCol Macario Peralta The 61st Division of the Philippine Army was an infantry division from the 1941 to 1942.

He selected as his division chief of staff was 63rd Infantry Regiment commander Col. Albert F. Christie, replacing Lieutenant Colonel Juan Quimbo who was appointed as Provost Marshal.

The division primarily organized as infantry as 61st FA did not receive its 75mm guns, which sank with SS Corregidor in Manila Bay.

These officers and others went into captivity after the Corregidor surrender; Gen. Chynoweth survived three and a half years of horrible conditions as a POW The resistance movement on Panay was unique.

The guerrilla structure on Panay was built around a core of refugee troops of the Philippine 61st Division who had taken to the hills immediately after the surrender orders were published.

Scarcely ten weeks after the Japanese invasion, Colonel Macario Peralta, Jr., former G-3 of the division and a man of strong and driving character, assumed undisputed control of the main guerrilla groups.

The early emergence of a generally accepted leader and the availability of a relatively large amount of salvaged supplies and equipment gave a powerful impetus to the formation of a smoothly working guerrilla command.

The small guerrilla bands on Masbate, Marinduque, Mindoro, and Palawan, having no outstanding leaders of their own, remained under the domination of the 6th Military District.