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Aaron A. Abston
Aaron A. Abston
8 posts
(August 16, 1916 — June 5, 1992), Commanding Officer, Battery G, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti Aircraft), Corregidor.
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Achille C. Tisdelle
Achille C. Tisdelle
27 posts
(March 17, 1909 -- April 30, 1986) , Major, U.S.A., 26th Cavalry, Philippine Scouts. Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Edward P. King on Bataan. P.O.W. in Japan, 1943-45.
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Aimé Ernest Motsch
Aimé Ernest Motsch
71 posts
(January 1, 1867 — April 30, 1911), French naval officer.
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Alan V. Jazmines
Alan V. Jazmines
1 posts
Writer, poet. Designated as a Peace Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
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Albert Chestnut
Albert Chestnut
2 posts
(February 16, 1918 – April 16, 2016) Civil engineer. Aviation officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps, assigned as a mine engineer in the Philippines. P.O.W. in the Philippines and Japan.
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Albert E. Holland
Albert E. Holland
61 posts
(July 28, 1912 — August 17, 1984), assistant to the vice president of the Ossorio Companies in the Philippines and served as a junior executive with the North Negros Sugar Company in Manila. Interned by the Japanese in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, from 1942 to 1945.
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Albert Klestadt
Albert Klestadt
5 posts
(October 30, 1913 — April 4, 2006). German businessman providing intelligence to Allied forces; sailed from the Philippines to Australia to escape the Japanese.
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Albert N. Brown
Albert N. Brown
5 posts
(October 26, 1905 – August 14, 2011), Captain in the Dental Corps. Spent three and a half years as P.O.W. in Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan and Bilibid Prison and Japan.
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Alberto Masoliver
Alberto Masoliver
10 posts
Spanish member of the Society of Jesus; parish priest in Surigao Province.
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Alessandro Malaspina
Alessandro Malaspina
2 posts
(1754-1810) explorer from Tuscany in the service of Spain. Undertook the Malaspina Expedition (1789–1794) 
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Alfred Burton Welch
Alfred Burton Welch
224 posts
(September 26, 1874 — June 30, 1945). Served with Company D, 1st Washington Volunteer Infantry in the Philippines, April 30, 1898 to November 1, 1899.
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Amado Picardal
Amado Picardal
21 posts
Member of the Redemptorist Congregation. Former Executive Secretary CBCP-BEC Committee.
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American Trooper
American Trooper
3 posts
Identified only as "a trooper," and published as "A Trooper's Diary" from 1898-99, the articles, however, end with the name "Huntington," though no first name is given.
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André Bellessort
André Bellessort
2 posts
(March 19, 1866 — January 22, 1942) French poet, essayist, translator, historian; member of the Académie française.
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Angeles Monrayo
Angeles Monrayo
6 posts
(1912 — 2000) Filipina in Hawaii.
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Angelica Carballo Pago
Angelica Carballo Pago
15 posts
Angelica Carballo Pago is a media campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia based in Manila, the Philippines.
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Anne Louise Goldthorpe
Anne Louise Goldthorpe
18 posts
Canadian nurse affiliated with the American Episcopal Church in the Philippines' efforts to set up rural clinics. Originally interned in Davao, then interned in Santo Tomas.
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Anonymous American Lady
Anonymous American Lady
1 posts
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Anonymous American POW
Anonymous American POW
11 posts
From names mentioned in the entries, it seems the author was an officer, a Catholic, and had the nickname, “Mac”. The names of certain American officers suggests, in turn, the possibility that the diary dates from the period that American P.O.W.s were incarcerated in Camp Casisang in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.
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Anonymous German Reservist
Anonymous German Reservist
30 posts
A German reservist in Manila, who shortly after the declaration of war in 1914, left to join the German defense forces in Tsingtao, China.
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Anonymous Japanese Soldier in Palawan
Anonymous Japanese Soldier in Palawan
2 posts
Refers to an unidentified Japanese soldier in Puerto Princesa, Palawan at the time American P.O.W.s were massacred on December 14, 1944.
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Antonio de las Alas
Antonio de las Alas
115 posts
(October 14, 1898 — October 5, 1983).Secretary of Finance and Secretary of Public Works and Communications, Quezon administration, 1935-1938; Commissioner of Finance, Philippine Executive Commission, 1941-43; Minister of Finance, Laurel administration, 1943-45.
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Antonio M. Molina
Antonio M. Molina
13 posts
(1918--2000) historian, educator, lawyer, linguist and diplomat. A professor, scholar, lawyer, and later press attaché and consul in the Philippine embassy in Madrid.
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Antonio Pigafetta
Antonio Pigafetta
78 posts
Antonio Pigafetta (1491 — 1534), Italian chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan's 1519-1522 expedition.
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Apolinario Mabini
Apolinario Mabini
47 posts
(July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903). Lawyer, prime minister in the First Republic; exiled to Guam where he kept this diary.
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Arthur L. Shreve
Arthur L. Shreve
17 posts
(July 16, 1897 — March 12, 1969) Colonel, Field Artillery, US Army.
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Augusto Caesar Espiritu
Augusto Caesar Espiritu
64 posts
(?, 1928 -- August 14, 1993). Lawyer and Economist. Delegate to the 1971-73 Constitutional Convention.
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Aurea Labrador
Aurea Labrador
5 posts
Aurea Labrador (1900 — 1991). Became nurse to the Quezon Family in 1919. Appointed Housekeeper of Malacañan Palace in 1938, accompanied the family into exile. After Quezon’s death in 1944 worked in the Lutheran Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
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Aurelio Alvero
Aurelio Alvero
16 posts
(October 15, 1913 — ?, 1958). Lawyer, educator, poet, essayist, novelist, affiliated with the Makapili, the New Leaders Association, Bisig Bakal ng Tagala during the Japanese Occupation.
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Aurora A. Quezon
Aurora A. Quezon
12 posts
Aurora Aragon Quezon (February 19, 1888 – April 28,1949). Wife of Manuel L. Quezon, First Lady from 1935 to 1944.
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Basil Jones Gilbert
Basil Jones Gilbert
3 posts
(1911-1968), banker. Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, served in Bataan, P.O.W. in the Philippines and Japan.
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Basilio J. Valdes
Basilio J. Valdes
217 posts
Basilio J. Valdes, M.D. (July 10, 1892 –January 26, 1970), soldier, doctor, cabinet member, businessman. Chief of Staff, Philippine Army, 1939-1945; Secretary of National Defense in the Quezon and Osmeña War Cabinets, 1941-45. Professor of Surgery at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), Medical Director of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, 1948-1970.
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Beatrice Livingstone
Beatrice Livingstone
8 posts
Wife of Lt. John Livingstone
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Benjamin Lincoln Ball
Benjamin Lincoln Ball
14 posts
(March 29, 1820 — December 11, 1859). Dentist, businessman, traveler.
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Bernard Moses
Bernard Moses
2 posts
American historian and political scientist; member of the Philippine Commission from 1900 to 1902.
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Bernard O. Hopkins
Bernard O. Hopkins
3 posts
(December 28, 1913 — October 24, 1944) Staff Sergeant, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment; POW in Cabanatuan; perished in the sinking of the Arisan Maru.
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C.B. Struthers
C.B. Struthers
2 posts
British subject.
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Calvin Jackson
Calvin Jackson
1 posts
(1904--1995). M.D. Served in General Hospital No. 2, Bataan. Thereafter, a P.O.W. in the Philippines and Japan.
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Carl E. Rice
Carl E. Rice
147 posts
(1877 — 1950). Veteran of Spanish-American War; served in Immigration Service; Senior Administrative Assistant in the Manila Base Quartermaster Depot. Married to a Filipina, he was eventually interned in Santo Tomas.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
6 posts
(January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947), suffragist, political strategist, and pacifist.
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Carter B. Simpson
Carter B. Simpson
24 posts
(November 3, 1915 — December 31, 1944), Captain, USMC. Served on Bataan and Corregidor; P.O.W.; perished on the hellship Oryoku Maru.
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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
2 posts
Filipino-American novelist, essayist, and editor born in Cebu.
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Charles C. Statler
Charles C. Statler
8 posts
Pilot on board the USS Bunker Hill and then the USS Essex in the Pacific Theater.
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Charles Dudley Rhodes
Charles Dudley Rhodes
1 posts
(1865--1948) Captain, 6th Cavalry, Served in the Philippines, Nov. 21, 1900 to April 4, 1903, commainf Post of Biñan and sub-district.
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Charles Mock
Charles Mock
69 posts
(1908 – 1964) an American originally imprisoned together with other Allied civilians in the University of Santo Tomas, kept a journal of his time in the prisoner of war camp in Los Baños, Laguna.
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Chriss A. Bell
Chriss A. Bell
55 posts
Corporal in the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry state militia.
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Claire Phillips
Claire Phillips
30 posts
(December 2, 1907 – May 22, 1960), her code name was "High Pockets." American-born entertainer, bar owner, and spy for the Allied cause who was awarded the Medal of Freedom.
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Clara L. Mueller
Clara L. Mueller
9 posts
Clara L. Mueller Fensch (November 16, 1901 -- December 11, 1989), 2nd Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps; served in Bataan, Corregidor; P.O.W. in Santo Tomas, Manila.
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Clarence Shearer
Clarence Shearer
9 posts
Pharmacist’s Mate, U.S. Navy, captured on Corregidor, May 6, 1942. P.O.W. in Old Bilibid prison, Manila, until liberated on February 5, 1945.
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Clinton S. Maupin
Clinton S. Maupin
22 posts
(January 13, 1908 — October 2, 1977), Major, U.S.A.; M.D. assigned to Hospital No. 2, Bataan; P.O.W. in the Philippines and Manchuria.
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Colin Kerr
Colin Kerr
17 posts
(1912 — 1982), Australian journalist. Assigned for two months in Leyte with the PWB (US Psychological Warfare Branch).
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Consuelo Ortiga y Peréz
Consuelo Ortiga y Peréz
26 posts
(c. 1863 -- ?). Her father, Pablo Ortiga y Rey, was a former Mayor of Manila.
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Cornelius B. Gold
Cornelius B. Gold
13 posts
(1839 — 1921). In December of 1861, Gold sailed for Hong Kong aboard the ship Oriental with a cargo of coal. In Hong Kong, he found passage on the Jabez Snow to Liverpool with a load of hemp and sugar. From Liverpool he made his way to Cork and then sailed home on the City of Manchester, arriving in March, 1863.
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Cummings
Cummings
1 posts
German Vice-Consul. A Scotsman who was a British citizen.
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Dale E. Detrick
Dale E. Detrick
7 posts
Medical Corps member.
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Daniel Roderick Williams
Daniel Roderick Williams
1 posts
(May 13, 1871 — September 21, 1931). Served as Secretary of the Philippine Commission, 1901-03.
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Danilo Vizmanos
Danilo Vizmanos
11 posts
(November 24, 1928 — June 23, 2008), former Captain in the Philippine Navy; in which he served until he resigned out of opposition to the dictatorship, 1951-72. Arrested by the government, May 25, 1974, held without charges until his release in August, 1976.
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Darwin Dormitorio
Darwin Dormitorio
6 posts
(May 6, 1999 – September 18, 2019). Cadet 4th Class, Philippine Military Academy, killed by fellow cadets by means of hazing.
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David L. Olbert
David L. Olbert
7 posts
(January 14, 1919 — February 24, 1991), Second Lieutenant, one of five flight leaders in the 17th Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group, Nichols Field. Escaped to Australia after the fall of the Philippines; returned to the United States, serving in the 12th Air Force in the Mediterranean.
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David Nash
David Nash
39 posts
(October 12, 1914 — August 3, 2007). Executive Officer aboard the U.S.S. Mindanao; surrendered on Corregidor, P.O.W. at Bilibid Prison, Davao Penal Colony, and Cabanatuan, then Korea and Manchuria.
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Dean C. Worcester
Dean C. Worcester
2 posts
October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924). Professor of Zoology of University of Michigan, member of the Philippine Commission, 1899-1913.
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Denny Williams
Denny Williams
29 posts
(July 28, 1907 — April 27, 1997), American nurse-anesthetist. Served in Bataan and Corregidor; P.O.W. in Santo Tomas.
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Doctors of President Quezon
Doctors of President Quezon
6 posts
Clinical Record kept by the doctors and nurses of President Manuel L. Quezon during the last months of his life, from April 18 to August 1, 1944.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
79 posts
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969). At the time of these entries, serving in the American Military Mission to the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935-1939) or the war Plans Division (1941-1942).
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E. Huntington Blatchford
E. Huntington Blatchford
8 posts
(October 9, 1876 — December 23, 1905). In 1898 he enlisted in the United States Cavalry and was stationed in Manila where he remained for six months.
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Edgar Alexander Mearns
Edgar Alexander Mearns
3 posts
American doctor, ornithologist, field naturalist. Military surgeon from 1882 to 1899, then medical officer, 1899 to 1903; traveled the Philippines 1902 to 1907.
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Edgardo J. Angara
Edgardo J. Angara
5 posts
Edgardo J. Angara (September 24, 1934 — May 13, 2018). Lawyer, educator, legislator, cabinet member, diplomat. Executive Secretary of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada from January 1-21, 2001 the period in which the failure of the impeachment trail of President Estrada led to People Power and the ouster of Estrada from office. Angara's diary was published and extensively cited by the Supreme Court of the Philippines in its decision on the question of whether Vice-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had assumed office permanently as the successor of President Estrada.
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Edith Moses
Edith Moses
1 posts
(May 11, 1859 -- ?). Wife of Bernard Moses.
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Edward Avery Bumpus
Edward Avery Bumpus
17 posts
(June 24, 1875 — September 28, 1901). Lieutenant in the U.S. Army from Massachusetts. Killed in action in the Philippines.
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Edward E. Brown
Edward E. Brown
2 posts
Company B, 35th U.S. Volunteer Infantry.
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Edward H. Bowes
Edward H. Bowes
2 posts
Edward Henry Bowes ( February 20, 1896 −December 15, 1944), Lt. Col., USA. CO, 1st Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment. Captured in Bataan. Died in captivity as a P.O.W.
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Edward P. King
Edward P. King
16 posts
(July 4, 1884 – August 31, 1958), Major General, U.S.A. Head of artillery at the outbreak of the war, made commander of USAFFE (later USFIP) troops in Bataan, March 11, 1942. Was held as P.O.W. for three and a half years.
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Edward R. Wernitznig
Edward R. Wernitznig
45 posts
March 9, 1906 -- May 4, 1976), Captain in the U.S. Army serving in the 12th Medical Regiment of the Philippine Scouts. P.O.W.
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Elizabeth Lautzenhiser
Elizabeth Lautzenhiser
19 posts
(July 5, 1927 — July 16, 2020) daughter of Roscoe E. Lautzenheiser and grandaughter of Nancy Belle Craft Norton. Interned in Santo Tomas.
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Elizabeth Vaughan
Elizabeth Vaughan
74 posts
Elizabeth Head Vaughan (1905 - September 29, 1957) journalist and Sociologist. Interned in the Bacolod Internment Camp and Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila, 1942-45.
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Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo
4 posts
(March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964), mayor of Kawit, member of the Katipunan, revolutionary general, dictator of the Philippines (1898-99) and president of the first Republic of the Philippines (1899-1901)
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Eriberto B. Misa Jr.
Eriberto B. Misa Jr.
37 posts
Eriberto B. Misa, Jr. ( October 8, 1921 — January 3, 2010), Ateneo ROTC cadet who reached the rank of lieutenant in the Philippine Army, seving in Bataan as part of  Company A, 2nd Anti-tank Battalion, Regular Division, USAFFE.
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Ericson L. Acosta
Ericson L. Acosta
2 posts
Poet, journalist and activist. Arrested in Samar on February 13, 2011, he wrote his prison diary while under detention in the Calbayog City sub-provincial jail in Samar. He died on November 30, 2022.
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Ernest E. Dieball
Ernest E. Dieball
116 posts
Company C, 47th U.S.V. ; U.S.S .Essex crewman.
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Ernest W. Hewson
Ernest W. Hewson
2 posts
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Ésteban Rodriguez de Figueroa
Ésteban Rodriguez de Figueroa
12 posts
Chief pilot of the ship Capitana in the Legaspi armada of 1565.
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Ethel Thomas Herold
Ethel Thomas Herold
5 posts
(1896 — 1988). Teacher in the Philippines from 1922-27, resident until 1959. Civilian internee during World War II.
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Fay Cook Bailey
Fay Cook Bailey
44 posts
American banker with the National City Bank of New York; interned in Santo Tomas with his family.
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Felipe Buencamino III
Felipe Buencamino III
117 posts
Felipe Buencamino III (March 28,1920 — April 28,1949), Served in G-2, Philippine Army, in Bataan.
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Ferdinand E. Marcos
Ferdinand E. Marcos
679 posts
Ferdinand E. Marcos (September 11, 1917– September 28, 1989), lawyer, soldier, legislator, twice elected President of the Philippines (1965, 1969), dictator, 1972-86.
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Fidel Segundo
Fidel Segundo
174 posts
(April 24, 1894–January 6, 1945), second Filipino graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. At the time of this diary, serving as assistant chief of staff of the Philippine Army.
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Francis Burton Harrison
Francis Burton Harrison
292 posts
(December 18, 1873 — November 21, 1957) , former congressman, Governor-General of the Philippines, and adviser to Philippine presidents.
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Francis M. Lunnie
Francis M. Lunnie
19 posts
1st Lt, Med. Adm. C. P.O.W. in Cabanatuan.
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Francisco Albo
Francisco Albo
62 posts
Botswain and navigator from the island of Rhodes. Originally botswain of the Trinidad in Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, he then became pilot of the Victoria under the command of Sebastian de Elcano.
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Francisco Javier de Viana
Francisco Javier de Viana
12 posts
(1763--1820) Uruguayan naval officer originally in the service of Spain. Served as an ensign on the Malaspina Expedition, of which his account was the first to be published.
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Franciso S. Hamoy
Franciso S. Hamoy
1 posts
2nd Lieutenant commanding the Philippine Constabulary Company in Tagbilaran, Bohol. On September 19, 1942 organized and commanded the Bravo Company of guerrillas.
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