Gen. Vicente Lim was the first Filipino graduate of West Point, commanded troops on Bataan, and was executed by the Japanese in the closing weeks… Read More »Civilian-Military, and American-Filipino Military, relations in the late prewar Commonwealth, 1939
News is that the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) has approved a Feasibility Study to proceed for the proposed Mindanao Railway Project. The map… Read More »Railways in Mindanao: Then and Now
This 1942 New World Order map attributed to Maurice Gomberg is interesting in that it gives a snapshot of emerging thought about the United… Read More »Philippine wartime views on the future of Indonesia, China and Japan
The Philippine Diary Project contains diary entries from a leading figure in the Leyte Landing: Major General Basilio J. Valdes. His diary, as encoded, edited,… Read More »Diary entries on the Leyte Landing: October, 1944
In October, 2013, the country will mark the 70th anniversary of the so-called Second Republic established under Japanese auspices. In anticipation of that event, the… Read More »Life, death, decisions, during the Japanese Occupation
(entry updated January 25, 2016) The beginning of World War 2, despite the immediate setback represented by Pearl Harbor, was greeted with optimism and a… Read More »The debate on taking the Philippines out of the war: January 28 to February 12, 1942
Long talk with Dr. Trepp the day after the funeral. What an extraordinary career was Quezon’s!–born a village boy in Baler in 1878, of mixed… Read More »August 4 and 5, 1944
Towards the middle of December 1943, Quezon moved with his family to Miami, Florida. He craved the sunshine and warmth of a climate more nearly… Read More »December 1943–May 31, 1944
did not see Quezon this day; he had a Cabinet meeting for half an hour at 11:30 a.m. and then “slept” the rest of the… Read More »September 30, 1943