Philippine Military Academy & Related Stories

[Karl Welteke]

Philippine Military Academy & Related Stories.

This album is established for pictures I obtained of the Philippine Military Academy and related stories of Officer Candidates and other Personnel of the Philippine and U.S. Services.

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These first 5 pictures in this album were obtained by John Duresky and he said this on 31. Jan 2023:

Hi Karl, I just got this Wirephoto on EBay. It was dated Dec 1, 1941, which was Nov 31, 1941, in Pearl Harbor, so exactly one week before Pearl Harbor and the Philippines were attacked. I haven't found it anywhere else online. It began showing up in newspapers after the war started such as the attached newspaper dated Dec 14, 1941.

You're welcome to use this photo. Also, the current Philippine Military Academy doesn't seem to have an email address. Perhaps you could call them here to see if they might like a digital copy. I'm wondering if any of the cadets in the photo could possibly be identified. Tel. Phone #: [phone] [phone] 3690 www.pma.edu.ph/about.php

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Zg185. Filipino Cadets from the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio march in Manila Nov. the 15 1941 during the celebration of the 6th year of the Commonwealth Government. This was original Associated Press photograph acquired by John Duresky on E-Bay.



Zg186. Filipino Cadets from the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio march in Manila Nov. the 15 1941 during the celebration of the 6th year of the Commonwealth Government. This was original Associated Press photograph acquired by John Duresky on E-Bay.



Zg187. Filipino Cadets from the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio march in Manila Nov. the 15 1941 during the celebration of the 6th year of the Commonwealth Government. This was original Associated Press photograph acquired by John Duresky on E-Bay.



Zg188. Filipino Cadets from the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio march in Manila Nov. the 15 1941 during the celebration of the 6th year of the Commonwealth Government. This was original Associated Press photograph acquired by John Duresky on E-Bay. (This was the information on the back of the above picture).



Zg189. Filipino Cadets from the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio march in Manila Nov. the 15 1941 during the celebration of the 6th year of the Commonwealth Government. This was original Associated Press photograph acquired by John Duresky on E-Bay. The above picture began showing up in newspapers after the war started such as this Atlanta GA Constitution newspaper dated Dec 14, 1941.

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In connection with Baguio Military Academy images above, John Duresky sent me these three (3) related pictures and said this:

Attached is Chester Britt's page from the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society. Chester graduated from West Point on June 11, 1940. He and 21 other men from that class went to the Philippines that fall, of those 10 died as POWs or in combat. Attached are the memorials to the two Filipinos from that class in our book. Best regards, John

John Duresky is the researcher of the writing team of the new book “Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival, by David L. Britt”. I have helped him out with some information and John Duresky is sharing almost all his finds with me. Thank you very much, John.



Zg190. Chester Britt's page from the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society. Chester graduated from West Point on June 11, 1940. This picture was acquired by John Duresky.



Zg191. 1LT Felicisimo Sulit Castillo WEST POINT 1940. This picture was acquired by John Duresky.



Zg192. Capt Vicente Ebol Vincent Gepte WEST POINT 1940. This picture was acquired by John Duresky.

[Karl Welteke]

Unsurrendered 2: The Hunters ROTC Guerrillas: the Story of Young and Brave Filipinos During WWII

It is a Filipino World War II Documentary, a Bani Logrono Film and is a Lucky Guillermo and Peter Parson Presentation. It was shown to the public free at the Metropolitan Theatre in Manila. I was invited and took these pictures.

It was great production and very well attended. I especially licked when the interviewed Guerrilla Veterans expressed themselves forcefully in the film about their actions to fight for their country and Freedom.

These cadets, in the 2 lower classes were ordered by Gen MacArthur and the Philippine Government to go home after the war started. Some of them had other ideas and eventually organized as the Hunters ROTC Guerrilla Forces. They accomplished some outstanding missions like the daring guerrilla raid on June 24, 1944 at the New Bilibid Prison and the Most famous success of the Hunters ROTC was their participation in the liberation of Los Baños prison camp on February 23, 1945, Read about it in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_ROTC


If you are interested!

I made 2 albums with 35 images each in high and low resolution:

Uploaded into a Flickr album, high resolution:
www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72177720307332223


Uploaded as an album in Photobucket, Philippine Historical No 2, And Other Historical: When the album opens, click on the first picture or the one you would like to view, then click the icon “i” and that will open the title and description of the image or images.

app.photobucket.com/u/PI-Sailor/a/2eb65a41-19ea-41ce-ac22-7fb4d75bcf3c?field=TITLE&desc=asc

For this Facebook presentation I chose only 15 images. The picture numbers referred to are based on the two previous albums picture numbers!

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-#00 to #03 pictures show the Documentary cover plaque, the film presentation program, the book table and the well attended theatre hall. I bought two books, one I have to decide to who I want to give it to.







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-#04 to #07 pictures show the VIPs at today’s film documentary showing greeting each other, Some of these Gentlemen were:
Dr. Emmanuel F. Calairo Chairman of the National Historical Commission of the Philippinws, Peter Parson-Founding Member of the Spyron AV Manila, Lucky Guellermo-Founding Member of the Spyron AV Manila, MMDA Undersecretary Frisco San Juan Jr., Dr. Roberto F. Decampo OBE Chairman of the Philippine Veterans Bank, Bani Logrono Director of the film.





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-#08 to #19 pictures show the introduction of the VIP Speakers at today’s film documentary and showing them giving their speeches. The words of Dr. Roberto F. Decampo OBE Chairman of the Philippine Veterans Bank impressed me most, he stressed war is real and the average young man does not seem the think about that. These Gentlemen were:
Dr. Emmanuel F. Calairo Chairman of the National Historical Commission of the Philippinws, Peter Parson-Founding Member of the Spyron AV Manila, MMDA Undersecretary Frisco San Juan Jr., Dr. Roberto F. Decampo OBE Chairman of the Philippine Veterans Bank, Bani Logrono Director of the film.





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-#20 to $23 pictures is screenshots of the film Unsurrendered 2: The Hunters ROTC Guerrillas: the Story of Young and Brave Filipinos During WWII, although image #21 shows two young artists sing two , I assume, were patriotic songs.





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-#24 to #28 pictures show the VIP room for the personally invited guests, that is where I met Peter Parson, an old friend. He came with his staff and friends and we joined a table with two Filipino Gentlemen, One of them was kind and shot a picture of Peter and me, thank you Gentlemen.










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-#29 to #34 pictures show the entrance to the Manila Metropolitan Theatre and were the guests signed in and the book Unsurrendered 2: The Hunters ROTC Guerrillas: the Story of Young and Brave Filipinos During WWII were for sale. I bought two books, one I have to decide who I want to give it to. I’m glad I came it is an impressive production. And I really liked that it was a full house of people who came and are interested in their history.