MANILA, Philippines (AP) – The Philippines said Wednesday its oldest World War II veteran, who escaped from Japanese troops before the infamous Bataan Death March and became a guerrilla fighter, has ...
As a young girl, Remedios Gomez-Paraiso loved all things beauty-related. One of eight children, she made dresses and perfumes to help her family earn money, rode horses and started competing in beauty ...
The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...
In 158 pages of text and 53 pages of footnotes, James A. Villanueva gives us an information-dense yet readable overview of the logistics, politics, and intelligence of the anti-Japanese guerilla ...
When 103-year-old Celestino Almeda received the Congressional Gold Medal award on behalf of the more than 260,000 Filipino and Filipino American soldiers who served in World War II, he closed his ...