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Pacific War Trials – part two

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5 Nov 2020

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: Courtroom spectators, Manila The Allies also established the United Nations War Crimes Commission (the UNWCC) in 1943. The UNWCC collected evidence on Axis war crimes and drew up lists of suspected war criminals for Allied prosecution after the war. In 1944, a sub-commission of the…
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Batangas Province During The Spanish Regime

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10 Oct 2020

Originally posted on Subli: Map of Batangas Province – Photo Credit – Wikipedia by Roel Balingit 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…
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Historical Events, Pacific War, U.S. History, WWII

Lucky 666 – The Story of the Longest Continuous Dogfight in the Annals of USAAF History

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20 Sep 2020

Most WWII books are written about the European Theatre, but few are written about the war that took place in the South Pacific. With most attention given to the European Theater, it is great to see books written about the forgotten men not only fighting the Japanese aggression in the…
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The Provisional Recon Platoon – Spearhead of the Los Banos Raid

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17 Sep 2020

Originally posted on Subli: Terry Santos – Photo Credit – The History Channel 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…
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Historical Events, HOLIDAYS, U.S. History

9-11-2001 – “To remember, lest we forget.”

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11 Sep 2020

On September 11, 2001, an evil force struck the heart of New Yorkers and all mankind for that matter. There isn’t an American who is not affected by it. Everyone who died in that tragedy left someone behind who loved them. Show respect for police officers and firefighters. Remember 9-11.
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Sept. 2, 1945

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2 Sep 2020

Seventy-five years ago today, Japan surrenders, bringing an end to WWII. This post was originally posted at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945 – Photo Credit: Army Signal Corps photographer LT. Stephen E. Korpanty – Naval Historical Center Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo…
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Food for Thought – Why the Philippines have Ineffective Government Leadership

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2 Sep 2020

Originally posted on Subli: 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.…
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National Aviation Day – Aug. 19, 2020

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19 Aug 2020

This poem is part of “We Swoop at Dawn” and written by a pilot from Jay Zeamer’s old 22nd Bomb Group. The poem had been copied and passed around to airmen in theater, many of whom flew with it stuffed into a pocket of their boilersuits. The poem went on…
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Monday Motivation

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17 Aug 2020

While cleaning up my husband’s papers, I came across this piece of ethos amongst his notes while a student at a Dale Carnegie class. That must be at least 40 years ago. It applied then and it still very much applies today. What it means to be an American.
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Batangas’ Ancient History

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13 Aug 2020

Originally posted on Subli: ? 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…
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