Tag: Manila

• INTRAMUROS – A CITY WITHIN WALLS IN MANILA

  It seems like cities built walls around them for fortification against invaders and attacks during local uprisings by its own people. China has the famous Great Walls of China. Rome has the Aurelian Walls built between 271 AD and 275 AD in Rome, Italy, during the reign of the Roman Emperors Aurelian and Probus. England…

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  5 Feb 2014

  The Philippines, Tourist Attraction, WWII

  Historical Fiction, Intramuros, Manila, Philippine tourist spots, Places to see, WWII

• The Second Pearl Harbor

  In Manila, ten minutes after the first bomb hit Pearl Harbor, a startled radio operator at Asiatic Fleet headquarters intercepted an unencrypted Morse Code from Adm. Husband Kimmel, the Honolulu-based Pacific Fleet Commander: “AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL”. He alerted his duty officer, Marine Lt. Col. William T. Clement, who in…

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  14 Apr 2013

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  Manila, The Philippines, World War II