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P-38 in the Pacific Perhaps Colonel Ben Kelsey, a P-38 test pilot, summed up the war bird’s legacy best of all. “(That) comfortable old cluck,” he said, “would fly like hell, fight like a wasp upstairs, and land like a butterfly.” The P-38 was the most successful USAAF fighter in…
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Yamashita at his trial. One of the most monumental surrenders in the Pacific War was General Tomoyuki Yamashita. General Tomoyuki Yamashita as he led his staff officers of the 14th Area Army to surrender, 2 Sept. 1945. He did not believe in hara-kiri.? He said, “If I kill myself, someone…
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I wish all of the distinguished artists of WWII could have been included – here is the final year of the Pacific War… “Battle of Luzon” by: Yorozujiro Terauchi, 1945 Mandalay, Burma, by: David Pentland, Feb. ’45 Pacific Glory” by: Nicholas Trudgian It is March 1945 and the P-38’s of…
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As promised, here is an example of other works of art for the following year of the Pacific War… USMC in the Marshall Islands, 31 Jan 1944, by: James V. Griffin Truk Island, Carolinas, by: Frank Lemon RNZAF, May 1944 with Corsairs Saipan Jun-july 1944, by: Robert…
Large centers of population already thrived in Batangas before the Spaniards arrived. Native settlements lined the Pansipit River, a major waterway near Taal Lake. Batangas first came to be known as Bombon. It was named after Taal Lake, which was also originally called Bombon. Some of the earliest settlements in Batangas were established in the … More Batangas Province During The Spanish Regime
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USS West Virginia, pre-WWII Her wounds had been grievous that morning in 1941, when Japanese torpedo bombers swept low over the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor and unleashed their deadly cargoes at the easy targets moored along Battleship Row. The surface might of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was virtually helpless…
I was just reading Pacific Paratrooper’s blog by GP Cox when I saw the farewell salutes. One of them is Terry Santos. I remember the name from the Los Baños rescue mission. I searched my archives and I saw this article by Terry Santos himself about that raid. I’m reprinting it in his memory. Two … More The Provisional Recon Platoon – Spearhead of the Los Banos Raid
Ayala Avenue, Makati Photo Credit – Patrickroque01@English Wikipedia A friend of mine, Benjamin R. Punongbayan, the founder of Punongbayan and Araullo, one of the largest accounting firms in the Philippines and founder of Buklod National Political Party, spoke at a virtual book launching event recently. He gave some insights on why the Philippines have … More Food for Thought – Why the Philippines have Ineffective Government Leadership
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Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino Jr. was a prominent Philippine journalist and politician. He served the province of Tarlac as the mayor of Concepcion, provincial vice governor, and provincial governor, and then Senator of of the 7th Congress. Image courtesy of http://www.kahimyang.com During his term as a senator, he was the…
Because of their geographical position between southern China and Melanesia, the Philippines have marked importance for many aspects of Oceanic prehistory. By Southeast Asian standards, they are fairly well-studied archaeologically, and this situation is partly due to a half-century of research carried out by Henry Otley Beyer (1883-1966), an American archaeologist. Beyer showed in … More Batangas’ Ancient History
