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Personal account, based on an extensive diary kept by this civilian nurse who joined the U.S. Army.

The book begins with the entry for January 5, 1942, the date the author was to have married her fiancée, but which instead marked the beginning of…

First person account by the senior American adviser to the 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 21st Division, Philippine Army.

Mallonée was a professional army officer, and he recorded his experiences from the mobilization of his regiment, through its…

First person account by the senior American adviser to the 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 21st Division, Philippine Army.

Mallonée was a professional army officer, and he recorded his experiences from the mobilization of his regiment, through its…

“Gem”, as he was more popularly known by his friends, was an American civilian who was interned in Camp Holmes just outside Baguio. He edited the camps’ newspaper, "Camp Holmes Daily News," when its editor, James J. Halsema, was taken out of the camp…

Jim Halsema was the son of former Baguio Mayor E.J. Halsema, and grew up in Baguio. He was a budding correspondent for the Associated Press and correspondent for the Manila Bulletin when the war broke out, and his diary records in detail events in…

Unpublished personal diary of Margaret Helen McLeod Morris, covering the period February to November 1942. At this time she was living in the Mountain Province, Northern Luzon; she tried to stay out of Japanese hands when the invasion took place, but…

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines and internment in Santo Tomas from a different perspective.

Esmerian was a French national who was a young bank employee in Saigon until he was called to military service in 1939. He fought in the…

Based on the diary of Lt. Col. Campo, a retired PC officer living in Davao in 1941, this features the diary, the research done and other memories of Col. Campo’s family. Morales, Col. Campo’s granddaughter, took it upon herself to publish the diary…

Detailed daily record beginning from the start of the war until the end of the war in Europe, May 7, 1945.

The author was a Spanish Dominican priest assigned to the Philippines; he was Rector of Letran College from 1936-1945, and his vantage…