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They're known to be corrosion-resistant.
You've probably seen this distinct steel fence in different parts of the Philippines, especially in post-war houses or in towns that have been around for a while. It's these steel planks with holes in rows and with teeth-like ...
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The 201st Fighter Squadron, known as the Aztec Eagles, would be given a rank of Legionnaire within the Philippine Legion of Honor.
The prevailing history of World War II in the Philippines is unsurprisingly focused on the defeat and the return of the American forces. Whether this angle is out of genuine affection or is just another example of victors writing the history that ...
The complainants were taken to the dreaded Bahay na Pula, where mass rapes and murders were committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
On March 8, the United Nations (UN) Women's Rights Committee ruled that the Philippines "violated the rights" of Filipino women who were forced into sexual slavery by the the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Also known as comfort women, ...
Unknown to many, Czech civilians fought alongside Filipino and American soldiers against the Japanese.
History books are filled with stories of how Filipino and American soldiers bravely fought Japanese invaders during World War 2, but not many people know of the heroism of a group of foreigners who defended the country at the time, even if ...
Jesus Villamor’s squadron of six repelled 54 Japanese air raiders in Batangas.
On a bright and sunny day in July 1941, five months before the Philippines was dragged into World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur formally drafted into the USAFFE the best pilots at the time. It was composed of 141 Filipino and American ...
It's the same site where Maria Orosa's grave marker was rediscovered.
Archaeologists from the University of the Philippines in collaboration with the Malate Grave Project have discovered a mass grave of war heroes who died at the Remedios Hospital in Malate during World War II. It is the same site where Maria Orosa' ...
Often untold but never forgotten, the Wha Chi battalion fought alongside Filipino soldiers in the fight against the Japanese.
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In another episode of alternate histories.
The Philippines is no stranger to colonization. Spain, the United States of America, and Japan all fought to keep the Philippine islands under their rule. And Germany, through Denmark, could have been another Philippine colonizer if history had gone another way.Before ...
The hideout was used by the Japanese in the 1940s.
War has no winners, as the saying goes. An underground tunnel is testament to this: the Onishi Peace Shrine in Tarlac serves as a memorial for the fallen soldiers of World War II. The tunnel was used as a communications base by ...
Most of them were women.
Last year, Peter Eisner authored a book called MacArthur's Spies, accompanied by the subhead "The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II." Here, the author chronicles the secret lives of three American personalities in ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s team located the USS Indianapolis on August 18, 2017. Its sinking is considered one of the worst disasters in US Navy history.
Last month, on August 18, 2017, Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen's team found the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis 5,500 meters below the surface of the Philippine Sea, using Allen's Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel.According to a ...
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