Alphabetical list of Authors

(June 22, 1890 — 1945), Major General in the Philippine Army, former Chief of Staff; at the time of the writing of the diary, general manager of the National Land Settlement Administration.

(1888-1978), short story writer, editor, philanthropist.

Pedro Walpole, S.J., is the Director of Research at the Institute of Environmental Science for Social Change in the Philippines and the Coordinator of Reconciliation with Creation for the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific. He holds a doctorate in land use change from King’s College in London. He is a practitioner in sustainable environment and community land-management in Southeast Asia.

(December 27, 1864 – April 13, 1955), American officer who organized, equipped and commanded the Astor Battery (financed by John Jacob Astor IV) in the Philippines and received field commands including at the Battle of Tirad Pass.

(1876 — 1972) Radcliffe-educated American schoolteacher in the Philippines from 1901 to 1908.

Major, U.S. Army, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 57th Infantry Regiment, 21st Infantry Division, Philippine Scouts. P.O.W. in Cabanatuan. Perished on the Hell ship Enoura Maru in December, 1944.

Colonel, U.S.A. Commanded the 57th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Scouts, from Jan. 21-28, 1942 when the he had a heart attack Last reported to have boarded transport for Formosa, August 11, 1942.

Pierre Plin (also, Pierre Plun). Pilot in the Legaspi armada of 1564-65.

Identified only as “Diary by Probationary Officer Baba” from a diary retrieved by American forces in Manila and subsequently included in documents for war crimes trials.

(October 24, 1874 – May 24, 1939) journalist, lawyer, legislator and educator.

(August 15, 1915 — June 25, 2009), member of the first cadre of officers for the Philippine Navy (Offshore Patrol of the Philippine Army); founder of the Philippine Marines.

(July 12, 1881 — February 12, 1945) former chief of police of Manila; since he was married to a Filipina, only he was interned in Santo Tomas.

(d. November 6, 1979), Chief Pay Clerk aboard USS Fremont, APA-44.

Identified in Free Philippines newspaper only as "one who survived the shambles and slaughter of Ermita."

(1899-1969) Colonel, US Army. Senior instructor for the 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 21st Division, Philippine Army. Served in Bataan, subsequently, P.O.W.

(?, 1872 — November 8, 1937), Private in Company D of the First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

(October 20, 1923 – November 10, 2015). Conductor and friend, collaborator, and ammanuensis to the composer Igor Stravinsky from 1948 to 1971.

March 20, 1844 – May 16, 1932). Lumber baron, shipping magnate, founder and owner of the Dollar Line (known after his death, as the American President Line).

Captain, Medical Corps, USN. Commanding officer, Cañacao Naval Hospital, Sangley Point, Cavite which was moved to Sta. Scholastica's College, Manila, until interned by the Japanese on January 2, 1942.

(January 5, 1861 – September 11, 1947) American officer.

(1885 — 1952), sugar technologist, plantation manager, and industry lobbyist. Interned in Baguio by the Japanese.

(January 29, 1917 — November 29, 2003), stationed at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Cañacao, serving as a pharmacist mate. P.O.W. in Bilibid Prison, Manila.

(1925--2012) one of the Nampo Tokubetsu Ryugakusei (Special Overseas Scholars from the South), Japanese government scholars sent from the Philippines to Japan in 1943 and 1944.

Assistant pilot in the armada of Legaspi.

(? — July 4, 1942) , Army Air Corps Lieutenant.

(February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)) Actor, Governor of California, 40th President of the United States, 1981-89.

(November 7, 1892 -- January 8, 1951), Colonel, U.S.A. Served in Bataan; P.O.W., 1942-1945.

(1863-1948) Quaker leader, theologian and historian, writer, editor, educator at Haverford College.

(November 18, 1928 – January 27, 2004). Lawyer, legislator, Vice-President, 1986-1992. Tasked by his father to write a diary of their escape to Japan, 1945; kept a diary of the Snap Election campaign of 1985-6.

(August 7, 1924 — September 7, 2015), medical corpsman in the US Navy.

(May 23, 1863 — March 25, 1937), represented Butuan as an appointed delegate to the Malolos Congress.

(? — 1945). Personal physician of Emilio Aguinaldo. Colonel in the Philippine Army.

Nives Ličen, university of Ljubljana; Katja Lihtenvalner, Solidarity Tracks; Vesna Podgornik, university of Ljubljana.

(April 19, 1925 — ), Physical Oceanographer. Served aboard USS Conway.

(November 22, 1907 -- January 1, 1994) U.S. Army officer; captured on Corregidor, subsequently P.O.W. in various camps until his escape with nine others from Davao Penal Colony on April 4, 1943, the only successful P.O.W. escape in the Philippines. After a period with guerrillas, in July 9, 1943, transported to Australia by submarine.

Age 20 at the time of publication of her diary which was "as told to" the journalist Carmela Fonbuena.

Japanese political scientist, member of the Research Commission on the Philippines; he translated and published a third of the entries that he kept from December 1942 to October 1943 while on the Commission's business in the Philippines.

(1873 — 1916). Spanish gendarme, officer in the Philippine Army.

March 31, 1884 — December 5, 1940), scholar, legislator, journalist, educator and historian.

(December 24, 1914 -- January 20, 2001). Journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet. At the time these diary entries were written, staff writer in the Philippines Free Press.

(1761-1816) Bohemian botanist. Member of the Malaspina Expedition which visited the Philippines, from March 4 to December 5, 1792.

Served with the 18th Infantry Regiment in the U.S. Army during the Filipino-American War.

(June 12, 1877 — July 4, 1971), Admiral, USN. In April 1939 he was designated Commander in Chief, U.S. Asiatic fleet, in the Philippines.

(1904-2016) Major, USAFFE (later, USFIP). Aide-de-Camp of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright.

(? 1886 -- December 29, 1905), Company G, Third Battalion, First Regiment, of the South Dakota Volunteers.

Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy; imprisoned in Bilibid Prison, Manila from July 2, 1942 until December 13, 1944; became chief surgeon in in October, 1943. Perished on the prison ship Oryoku Maru in 1945.

(1891 — 1951), lawyer, legislator, constitutional convention delegate, governor of Iloilo, resistance leader. The diary covers his escape to Leyte to join Allied forces in 1945.

(September 14, 1903 — May 6, 1991). Nurse at Sternberg General Military Hospital. Interned with her future husband in Santo Tomas, 1942-45.

War diary of U.S.S. Canopus (AS-9).

An individual who penned a diary which was retrieved by American forces during the Battle of Manila in 1945.

Identified only as “Member 9th Shipping Engineer Regiment, Japanese Army” whose diary was recovered by American troops and included in war trial documents.

1987 Philippine Training Mission of USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), U.S. Navy hospital ship. Built as a San Clemente-class tanker, S.S. Worth in 1976. Renamed in July, 1984 and launched in July, 1985. Entered service in 1986, homeported in San Diego, CA.

Major General in the Philippine Army; Councilor representing Capiz in the Federal State of the Visayas; represented Iloilo in the Malolos Congress; military commander of Pampanga.

(November 29, 1888 –- September 6, 1971). Pioneer aviator in the United States Army Air Corps.

(1888 — 1977), first Filipino veterinarian, government official, businessman. Vice-President and Manager, National Rice and Corn Corporation, 1936-1943. Vice-Chairman, National Produce Exchange. Food Administrator, Civilian Emergency Administration, 1941-42.Father of Felipe Buencamino III.

(November 8, 1918 — April 4, 2016). Served on the USS Fremont APA-44.

Captain, 60th C.A. (A.A.), U.S.A., Battery Commander “H” Battery on Corregidor.

Medical Corps, assigned to General Hospital No. 2 on Bataan. He became the third and last American senior medical officer at Bilibid Prison, Manila, on December 13, 1944.

(May 12, 1880 — July 18, 1950), Chief of the Division of Mines, Bureau of Science, insular government of the Philippines.

December 16, 1900 – March 24, 1975). American mining engineer, reserve officer, and guerrilla leader in Mindanao.

(October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) journalist, politician, diplomat. Member of the Peace Commission representing the United States in negotations with the Spanish government to conclude the treaty ending the Spanish-American War.

(? — October 1975), Engineering officer for the 19th Bombardment Group, Clark Field, Pampanga. Evacuated to Australia on the SS Mactan, 1942.

(March 9, 1857 — March 14, 1938), Quaker recorded minister of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

(May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959) American banker, colonial official, diplomat.

(1652 — March, 1715) British ship captain and buccaneer.

(1721 — 1787) British brigadier general, colonial official.

(1907-1991) Captain, U.S. Army. Served in the Philippines from September, 1941, received battlefield commission. POW, 1942-1945.

(1867 — 1901), Captain, Company B, 21st U.S. Infantry. Killed in action in the Philippines.

Major, Philippine Scouts. P.O.W.

(June 1, 1913 — October ?, 1944), 1st Lieutenant, US Army; P.O.W., perished on Arisan Maru in October, 1944.

(December 5, 1880 -- March 18, 1952). Originally Corporal, Company K of 22nd Regiment, U.S. Infantry as of January 3, 1899, arriving in the Philippines March 4, 1899, and serving as such until he resigned in July, 1899 (he was reappointed to the same rank one year later); made Quartermaster Sergeant in October, 1901 until mustered out in December of that year.

Served aboard USS Fremont APA-44.

The author is unknown, except for some details: she was a niece of Henry Clay Ide, and stayed with her cousins Annie and Marjorie Ide in Manila. At the time the diary was written, Henry Ide was Vice Governor-General of the Philippines.