Boeing P-26, the Philippines’ WWII Peashooter
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For aerial defense against superior Japanese Mitsubishi planes, the Philippines had the P-26, a heroic fighter that couldn’t.
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Imprisonment and Torture at Fort Santiago in World War II
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A son shares his father’s written account about being imprisoned and tortured during WW II
Read MoreStorytellers of the Pajaro Valley
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A dedicated band of young researchers try to uncover and preserve untold stories of the Filipino farm labor community of the Pajaro Valley in California.
Read MoreThe Life and Times of My Father, Ponce Cazem
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The writer recalls the life of his father, Ponce Cazem, chauffeur to Hollywood stars, and brave Staff Sgt. with 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company B.
Read MoreDown From the Hill: Ateneo’s Modern Heroes Eman Lacaba and Edgar Jopson
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Two of the anti-dictatorship struggle’s most admired young martyrs were products of the elite Ateneo de Manila University.
Read MoreThe Pioneering Earnshaw Brothers
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The Earnshaws were prominent “Peacetime” shipbuilders and public servants.
Read MoreAn American in Manila, 1960
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Manila in the early 1960s, as experienced by a newly arrived American housewife.
Read MoreFermin Tobera: From Historical Footnote to the Big Picture
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A mural will honor Fermin Tobera, the lone fatality the 1930 Watsonville anti-Filipino race riots.
Read MoreSusan Magalona, an Inimitable Southern Belle
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Why Susan Magalona, who never joined a beauty contest, was the uncrowned queen of all Manila belles from around 1937 to 1941.
Read MoreThe Battle of Tamparan and the Forgotten Moro Heroes of World War II
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The following are excerpts from Moro Warrior: A Philippine Chieftain, an American Schoolmaster, and the Untold Story of the Most Remarkable Resistance Fighters of World War II in the Pacific (2022).
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