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Researched account by a retired journalist of the experiences of Glen McDole, a US Marine assigned to the 1st Separate Marine Battalion in Cavite. When the war broke out, he was in the Cavite Navy Yard, then sent to Los Baños, to guard American…

Compilation of letters, vignettes, and prose and poetry by a granddaughter trying to reconstruct the life of a grandfather (William Harrington) she never knew, and the love story he and the author’s grandmother shared.

Bill Harrington was an…

Personal account of a US Marine stationed in Cavite prior to the outbreak of the war, and an eyewitness to the naval base’s destruction two days later. Williams was a member of a unique unit: an Air Warning Group with one of the few radar sets…

Brief but solid account of the US Marines in the Bataan and Corregidor campaign. The Fourth Marine Regiment and its operations in the Philippines in 1941-1942. The regiment had been stationed in Shanghai since the 1920s, but was ordered to the…

Haney joined the US Marines in 1938, in search of a different life; he was underage and lied about his age to get in. He was sent to China and became part of the “China Marines” – the 4th Marine Regiment. This regiment was sent to the Philippines on…