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Yank was a US Army weekly aimed at building morale and providing information to the American GI in the various fronts.

This issue is of the American edition (from March 1945 there was a Far East edition, printed in Manila), and contains sketches…

Compilation of humorous cartoons sketched by the author (then a teenager) depicting life in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, covering the January 1942 through December 1944.

These were presented to the author’s mother as a Christmas gift and morale…

An exhibition catalog which features the drawings of a Montana cowboy who joined the Air Corps to escape the hardship of the Great Depression. He wound up in the Philippines, and was at Clark Field when the war started. He fought in Bataan and became…

Trudl Zipper was the wife of Manila Symphony Orchestra conductor Herbert Zipper, and was an acclaimed dancer and artist in her own right. Both got out of Europe in time to escape Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, but arrived in Manila in time to get…

A quick introduction to the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines through photographs (some published for the first time; others from contemporary publications) depicting the different aspects of the occupation years. Short textual essays provide a…

“A project of the Department of National Defense in cooperation with the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office and the Veterans Federation of the Philippines.”

Mainly written by Dr. Cesar P. Pobre and Brig. Gen. Juanito T. Rimando (ret.). Published…

Not a diary written at the time the events occurred, but an illustrated memoir written by a Filipino teenager who was taken by the Japanese Army in Leyte and forced to become a “comfort woman”, or sex slave.

The memoir and its illustrations were…

A collection of humorous cartoons, verse, letters and statistics (not all humorous) reflecting on the recently concluded three years of internment in Santo Tomas under the Japanese. Includes a map of Manila and Santo Tomas Internment Camp (STIC).…

Specialist publication on World War II Prisoner of War and internee mail emanating from or bound for the Philippines and Taiwan. Profusely illustrated by color photographs showing the various types of envelopes, censor stamps, and form mail cards…

General account, heavily illustrated, of the defense and fall of the Philippines in 1941-1942. Written by a Briton without much knowledge on the Philippines, the book suffers from a number of factual and spelling errors. Some of the photos are good,…