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Report prepared by the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (intelligence) and the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 (operations) of XIV Corps headquarters detailing Japanese personnel and organization, tactics, weapons, fortifications and operations in the…

Part of the series of pamphlets published by the US Army Center of Military History in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of WWII. This pamphlet deals with the US Army’s defense of and defeat in the Philippines 1941-1942.

Bailey summarizes the…

US unit pictorial, meant for its members to remember their wartime stations. Photographs essentially show scenery, people and the various bases the unit was stationed in during the war, from New Guinea to the Philippines.

Photos of the…

Written by a Filipino journalist right after the war, this book is a record of collaboration in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation and the postwar betrayal by Filipino “collaborator” politicians led by Manuel A. Roxas.

Abaya was…

Personal account (expansion of his earlier "Ghost of Bataan Speaks") of a Bataan combat veteran and American Prisoner of War.

Abraham was 28 years old when the war started, a sergeant in the US 31st Infantry Regiment. He saw combat in Bataan, the…

Personal account by an American non-commissioned officer in the defense of the Philippines in 1941-1942.

Abraham was with the American 31st Infantry Regiment and fought in Bataan. He witnessed the atrocities in the Death March and suffered the…

Gathers and publishes very clearly many of the more famous official US Army and Navy photographs of World War II in the Philippines. Includes a few photographs of the Philippine defense campaign (including a few photographs captured from the…

Autobiography of Sofia Dimitriades Adamson, an American of Greek origins, who moved around the U.S. with her family and wound up in Manila, where she met a Greek citizen, George Athos Adamson, visiting from the Philippines.

Adamson had helped his…

A researched study by a prominent Filipino historian who lived through the period.

Agoncillo briefly outlines the saga of Jorge B. Vargas, as Chairman of the Philippine Executive Commission, and Jose P. Laurel, president of the Japanese-sponsored…