Category: Philippine History
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Christmas poems for our military (1)
Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: Sailor Santa “A Different Christmas Poem” The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming…
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Conclusion
Originally posted on Subli: St. Lo exploded after a kamikaze attacks. Photo Credit: US Navy – http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/063.htm A significant epilogue to the Battle of Leyte Gulf came on Oct. 25, the day when the Japanese assaulted the Seventh Fleet with a new weapon – Kamikaze suicide pilots made up entirely of volunteers led by Lieutenant…
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Dec. 8 – A significant date for Filipinos
Originally posted on Subli: In the Philippines, December 8 is the Feast of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception where festival honoring the Virgin Mary are taking place in several towns. This is celebrated with evening processions, supplemented by cultural presentations, beauty pageants, and fireworks. December 8 is also marked as the Second Pearl Harbor.…
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 5
Originally posted on Subli: Gambier Bay and her escorts laying a smoke screen early in the battle.Photo Credit – U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation Kurita emerged unopposed from San Bernardino Strait and was racing southward heading for Leyte Gulf. At daybreak on Oct. 25, American carriers were sighted on the horizon. Kurita thought…
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 4
Originally posted on Subli: Vice Adm. Shoji Nishimura – Photo Credit – Wikipedia At the same time that Halsey was chasing Ozawa’s decoy carriers, the second arm of the Japanese pincers, Vice Admiral Nishimura’s Southern Force, was approaching Surigao Strait, the southern entrance to Leyte Gulf. Although he knew that Kurita had been delayed and…
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Veterans Day 2019
Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: For each and every veteran – Thank You!! For All Our Todays and Yesterdays Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier…
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 3
Originally posted on Subli: Admiral Halsey’s pilot reported that four of Kurita’s battleships had been severely damaged, that nine cruisers and destroyers had been sunk or heavily damaged, and that the remains of the armada were retreating westward. Halsey assumed that the Center Force was no longer a threat. On the contrary, air attacks by…
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 2
Originally posted on Subli: The bridge of Musashi The messages from the Dace and the Darter, warning of the advance of Kurita’s fleet, began arriving in Flag Plot aboard USS New Jersey at 6:20 am on Oct. 23. Halsey and his staff pondered the significance of the sightings by the two submarines. Halsey was not…
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Battle of Leyte Gulf – Part 1
Originally posted on Subli: The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the last great naval confrontation in history and the largest naval battle of World War II in term of ships and men. It was fought from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, between combined American and Australian forces and Imperial Japanese Navy in the waters off…
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Mort Künstler’s exhibition at The Hecksher Museum of Art
Originally posted on Long Island Past and Present: Mort Kunstler is best known for his incomparable paintings of Civil War events. However, he earned his stripes as an illustrator for pulp fiction magazines with his illustrations for men’s pulp adventure magazines published in the 50s, 60s and 70s. For the first time, more than 80…
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