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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
From the Philippines Magazine, dated January 1944, is a blurb on Ritchie Boy Marcos B. Roces attended the Infantry School at Ft. Second Armored Corps, is now at his new post at Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Md.
Marcos B. Roces was a U.S.-born Catholic Ritchie Boy from a Filipino family of Spanish landowners. He finished schooling in Schwyz, Switzerland (from 1933), earned a high school certificate at St. Joseph's College in London, enrolled at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, in 1937, and later studied at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. After the fall of Bataan in April 1942 he joined the U.S. Army.


While on furlough recently in Washington he married Mary Lou Stagner. Commissioned in the Army of the U. after his graduation in September, 1942, he reported to the Intelligence Division of the First Filipino Infantry. He served with the First Filipino Regiment in California until July, 1943, when he was transferred to the Second Armored Corps at Fort Ord.
He graduated from the Fort Benning Infantry School as a second lieutenant in October 1942 and was assigned to the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment at Fort Ord, California, as an intelligence assistant under Col. Jaime Velazquez. He served with the First Filipino Regiment in California until July 1943, then with the Second Armored Corps at Fort Ord; from June to October 1943 he trained at Presidio of Monterey and was promoted to first lieutenant. He later trained at Camp Ritchie (class 13).


Coming from a large family of rich Spanish landowners, he was sent to Schwyz in Switzerland in 1933 to finish his schooling, and then to St. Joseph's College in London for a high school certificate.
While on furlough in Washington he married Mary Lou Stagner. A January 1944 notice in ''Philippines Magazine'' placed him at the Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie. In May 1944 he was assigned to the G-2 section of the Fifth U.S. Army in Europe and served in southern France, taking part in the Rome–Arno campaign and operations in the northern Apennines. Promoted to captain in 1944, he was sent to Leyte the following year and helped organize the G-2 section of the reconstituted Philippine Army. He was honorably discharged at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Returning to Manila in 1946, he managed Cine Ideal for the next 32 years.
 
Two years later, in 1937, he moved to South Bend, Indiana, to enroll at the Catholic University of Notre Dame. He was attracted to a diplomatic career and so enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in the School of Foreign Service. By that rime, in April of 1942, Bataan had fallen to the enemy; and Marquitos felt he had to be of service to his country.
 
Army, and was sent to the Fort Benning Infantry School. He graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant in October of that year, and was assigned to the 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment at Fort Ord, California, where he served as intelligence assistant under Col. From June to October 1943, he was sent to a special training school in Presidio Monterey, where he was pro-moted to 1st Lieutenant.
 
Knowing his value as an intelligence officer, his superiors sent him to the Camp Ritchie Military Intelligence School for several months. In May 1944 when he was assigned to the G-2 Section of the 5th US Army in Europe. He would have preferred to see action in the Philippines, but he was sent instead to southern France.


== Research notes ==
== Research notes ==
* 12/16/1917-
* Birth date noted as 16 December 1917.
 
== Technical record ==
== Technical record ==
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