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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in extra tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Challenge of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero strolled through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the useless. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was also destroying her: leprosy, which so horrified japan they refused to search her. Following the war, army chaplains found her in a nightmarish leper colony and fought for the government to do something it had never done: welcome a foreigner with leprosy. This brought her movie star, which she used to publicly speak for other sufferers. However, the notoriety haunted her and she sought a way to disappear. Ben Montgomery now brings Guerrero's heroic achievements to light.
