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(August 16, 1916 — June 5, 1992), Commanding Officer, Battery G, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti Aircraft), Corregidor.
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(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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(January 1, 1867 — April 30, 1911), French naval officer.
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Writer, poet. Designated as a Peace Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
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(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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(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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(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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(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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Spanish member of the Society of Jesus; parish priest in Surigao Province.
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(1754-1810) explorer from Tuscany in the service of Spain. Undertook the Malaspina Expedition (1789–1794) 
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(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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Member of the Redemptorist Congregation. Former Executive Secretary CBCP-BEC Committee.
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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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(March 19, 1866 — January 22, 1942) French poet, essayist, translator, historian; member of the Académie française.
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(1912 — 2000) Filipina in Hawaii.
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Angelica Carballo Pago is a media campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia based in Manila, the Philippines.
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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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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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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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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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(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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(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 (1491 — 1534), Italian chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan's 1519-1522 expedition.
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(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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(July 16, 1897 — March 12, 1969) Colonel, Field Artillery, US Army.
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(?, 1928 -- August 14, 1993). Lawyer and Economist. Delegate to the 1971-73 Constitutional Convention.
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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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(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 Aragon Quezon (February 19, 1888 – April 28,1949). Wife of Manuel L. Quezon, First Lady from 1935 to 1944.
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(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, 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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Wife of Lt. John Livingstone
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(March 29, 1820 — December 11, 1859). Dentist, businessman, traveler.
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American historian and political scientist; member of the Philippine Commission from 1900 to 1902.
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(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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British subject.
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(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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(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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(January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947), suffragist, political strategist, and pacifist.
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(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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Filipino-American novelist, essayist, and editor born in Cebu.
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Pilot on board the USS Bunker Hill and then the USS Essex in the Pacific Theater.
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(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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(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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Corporal in the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry state militia.
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(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 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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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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(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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(1912 — 1982), Australian journalist. Assigned for two months in Leyte with the PWB (US Psychological Warfare Branch).
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(c. 1863 -- ?). Her father, Pablo Ortiga y Rey, was a former Mayor of Manila.
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(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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German Vice-Consul. A Scotsman who was a British citizen.
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Medical Corps member.
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(May 13, 1871 — September 21, 1931). Served as Secretary of the Philippine Commission, 1901-03.
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(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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(May 6, 1999 – September 18, 2019). Cadet 4th Class, Philippine Military Academy, killed by fellow cadets by means of hazing.
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(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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(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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October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924). Professor of Zoology of University of Michigan, member of the Philippine Commission, 1899-1913.
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(July 28, 1907 — April 27, 1997), American nurse-anesthetist. Served in Bataan and Corregidor; P.O.W. in Santo Tomas.
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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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(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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(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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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 (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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(May 11, 1859 -- ?). Wife of Bernard Moses.
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(June 24, 1875 — September 28, 1901). Lieutenant in the U.S. Army from Massachusetts. Killed in action in the Philippines.
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Company B, 35th U.S. Volunteer Infantry.
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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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(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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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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(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 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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(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. ( 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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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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Company C, 47th U.S.V. ; U.S.S .Essex crewman.
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Chief pilot of the ship Capitana in the Legaspi armada of 1565.
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(1896 — 1988). Teacher in the Philippines from 1922-27, resident until 1959. Civilian internee during World War II.
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American banker with the National City Bank of New York; interned in Santo Tomas with his family.
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Felipe Buencamino III (March 28,1920 — April 28,1949), Served in G-2, Philippine Army, in Bataan.
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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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(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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(December 18, 1873 — November 21, 1957) , former congressman, Governor-General of the Philippines, and adviser to Philippine presidents.
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1st Lt, Med. Adm. C. P.O.W. in Cabanatuan.
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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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(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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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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