Pacific Wars Archive

Lt. Cesar Fernando Basa

pacificwars | January 5, 2015

Lt Cesar Fernando Basa (June 21, 1915 – December 12, 1941) Cesar F. Basa was born in Isabela , Negros Occidental on June 21,1915. His parents were Fernando

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Pacific Wars

Who was the President of the Philippines during World War II?

pacificwars | January 4, 2015

President Serge Osmeña wearing a Sun Helmet seated next to Gen. MacArthur on his return to the Philippines. October 1944 (Left to right: Lieutenant General George Kenney, Lieutenant

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Military Collectibles & Novelties

M1911A1 vs. A6M Zero, the story of 2Lt. Owen J. Baggett’s Unusual Aerial Victory

pacificwars | January 4, 2015

Owen John Baggett (August 29, 1920 – July 27, 2006) was a second lieutenant in the USAAF 7th Bomb Group based at Pandaveswar, in India, during the World War 2.

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Pacific Wars

The Littlest Soldier

pacificwars | January 3, 2015

13-yr old Adone Santiago, believed to be the youngest soldier in Philippine Army uniform, talks with Lt. Col. Robert W. King, to whose 38th Infantry Division battalion the

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Pacific Wars

The Ponson Island Massacre, Barrio Dapdap, Ponson Island, Camotes Islands, Province of Cebu.

pacificwars | January 3, 2015

Geoge Daugherty pointing to victims of the Ponson Island Massacre (Photo taken 29 Dec.1944) “Mistreating and killing without cause or trial more than 300 unarmed non-combatant civilians, and

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Pacific Wars

The Soldier’s Son, Arthur MacArthur IV

pacificwars | December 19, 2014

Four year old Arthur MacArthur IV, in the Malinta Tunnel entrance Corregidor.(Wide World Photo) Born in Manila on February 21 1938, Arthur was named after his famous

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Cagayan de Oro

The Sinking of the SS Corregidor Dec. 17 1941. 900-1,200 Lives Were Lost.

pacificwars | December 15, 2014

It was the fastest air-conditioned Inter-Island passenger ship during its time. It was owned by Compania Maritima, with Capt. Apolinar Calvo a veteran skipper of Spanish descent

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Designed by John Browning, the M1911 is the best-known of his designs to use the short recoil principle in its basic design.

Military Collectibles & Novelties

The M1911 is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, recoil-operated pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge, which served as the standard-issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces from

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