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The Woman in the Photograph

A tiny, untrained school teacher turned 110 men, with 3 American rifles between them, into a terrifying unconventional insurgency, lurking in the jungle brush with bolos, gas pipe guns, and handmade bombs with gunpowder and old nails. American units later named the unit the Gas Pipe Gang.
The Woman in the Photograph
Nieves Fernandez--School teacher, Community Organizer, One-Woman Death Squad.

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