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Post by tomasctt on Jan 18, 2017 16:22:16 GMT 8
Hi Zak,
I'm going back to Corregidor in 9-10 (Thurs-Fri) February 2017 with a Spanish online friend. We'll be staying overnight at Freedom Cafe, and going around to see the batteries and other stuff like tunnels etc.
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Post by tomasctt on Jan 3, 2017 10:23:21 GMT 8
Hi all,
I'll be doing a road trip at Bataan sometime later this month and was planning to drive around the peninsula to Subic. I've seen maps showing the snaking/zig-zagging Mariveles-Bagac road, but from wot I've found on the net so far is dated (circa 2010-2014) information that most of the road is unpaved.
Any idea how much of the road is paved, and if the unpaved sections can be driven by a vehicle that is not a 4x4?
Thanks.
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Post by tomasctt on Jan 9, 2016 12:35:47 GMT 8
I, for one, am interested in this. Is there an official list of accused collaborators? IIRC, there is a Supreme Court decision out there that mentions several prominent Filipinos working in the puppet government who were charged as collaborators. They were imprisoned after the war but released after, IIRC with no hearing. One of those is IIRC an uncle of my grandfather.
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Post by tomasctt on Jan 9, 2016 11:58:30 GMT 8
Hi guys, been a looooooooooooong time since I visited this board. Anyhow, anyone here from Cebu and will be available on 21 January onwards? I've got a Singaporean friend (Tamil Muslim), around 50+ years old, with his son visiting Cebu at that time, and it will be nice if any of you Cebuanos (assuming there are any here) will be available to meet up with him and tell him about the place, etc. He's a lawyer and interested in military history particularly World War 2, hence this post-appeal on this board. I'd like to meet up with him but my work, schedule, and state of finance here in Manila aren't cooperating with that idea.
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Post by tomasctt on Dec 3, 2014 14:03:40 GMT 8
www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/390696/lifestyle/travel/corregidor-not-all-7-107-islands-are-created-equal?ref=secheadThe article above seems so shallow, with some errors that pisses me off ("As with any 21st century military base" and "We learned that had it not been for the lack of resources and ammunition, Corregidor would not have been surrendered to the Japanese forces on May 6, 1942 and the Philippines would not have been placed under Japanese rule until 1945"). It is as if it is yet another tourist destination. Sounds like the author was straining to sound interested in the trip, and that it feels that he felt bored about it. I dunno. That's how I somehow read the tone of it. Maybe I'm being unduly harsh? I dunno. At least it doesn't mention that the island is an adventure tourist destination blah blah *vomit*
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Post by tomasctt on Aug 27, 2014 13:24:49 GMT 8
Those photos are awesome. Thanks. Has batteryboy been here lately?
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Post by tomasctt on Aug 12, 2014 12:11:32 GMT 8
Hi guys,
An online friend is asking me for any info on Japanese operations at Banton, Romblon which was occupied on 21 March 1942, and Marinduque. He would like to know the correct dates, and as much information about the Japanese units doing the invasions of these two places.
I figured you guys would know.
Thanks.
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Post by tomasctt on Sept 28, 2012 9:24:00 GMT 8
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Post by tomasctt on Jun 27, 2012 7:48:43 GMT 8
Fascinating stuff. Any update on the Japanese veterans group?
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Post by tomasctt on Apr 5, 2012 19:45:00 GMT 8
okla, that sounds awesome. I wonder where your friend met Yamashita exactly. Another pre-WW2 house that still remains there in Manila is the old house of my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and dad's. It is located at Piy Margal Street, Sampaloc, within walking distance of UST. Well, sorta remains. It was renovated several times, and the ground floor is now a parlor or internet cafe. Anyway, I reckon some/most sections of that house are still WW2 era. During WW2, my grandparents and their children (my dad and his siblings - my aunts and uncles) stayed there. It was one of the bigger and more comfortable houses at that time, and so the Japanese "took control" of it, serving as an officers' quarters IIRC. Family was treated well. When the Americans were coming, the Japanese left without any issue. IIRC, my aunts said when the Japanese who stayed at home left, the commanding officer turned around, bowed at them, and then left. Shortly after, the Americans arrived. It was fortunate that the house was near UST and north of the Pasig River. That spared the house from the shelling, also was one of the earlier places to be liberated by the Americans, and as it was north of the river, it did not witness the massacres that took place in other parts of Manila. I used to live there when I was newly born, and remember visiting grandparents and aunts well into the 1980s when my grandma and aunties sold the house and transferred south. Dad was born in that house, 1944. It was my aunts who had a clear recollection of life during the Japanese Occupation. Grandpa was a lawyer and AFAIK, during the occupation, he wasn't able to practice law that much. As my aunts recall, life was hard but somewhat manageable at that time. My auntie remembers when the Americans arrived to liberate the place, she received a chocolate bar from one of the soldiers.
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