Talk:Military history of the Philippines during World War II
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[edit] Transferred from Talk:Military history of the Philippines
To Do - more prose to fill in the outline below: additions, corrections welcome!
- World War II
- Simultaneous attacks on Pearl Harbor, Manila, rest of Southeast Asia
- Scattering of the populace
- Retreat to Cordillera
- Fall of Bataan
- Bataan Death March
- 100 000 prisoners
- Torture to gain information
- Retreat of US military to the Cordillera
- We Remained COL Russell Volckmann
- The Japanese search for collaborators with the guerillas
- Island-hopping across the Pacific
- Preparation of elements of the US Army, Military Intelligence Division (3000 men) in Brisbane Australia
- During the pre-invasion of the Philippines, secret missions of the US Military Intelligence Division sent officers and men by submarine from Brisbane, Australia. They would rendezvous with sailboats in open waters, who would carry the soldiers to the Philippine coastline. During the transfer from submarine to sailboat, they used jerrycans to hold counterfeit Japanese money, which was intended to flood the countryside's economy with worthless currency.
- Some veterans of these operations still live today 2003
- US Link up with the US/Filipino guerillas (their khaki uniforms were a mass of stitches); fatigues were not government-issue before WWII
- Invasion from the south
- Lingayen Gulf invasion
- Freeing of the populace
- Bombardment of Manila
- Rescue of POW's near Cabanatuan, Luzon by US Army Rangers, Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
- Some Filipinos built an airfield with their bare hands
- Last stand of the Japanese in Luzon
- Defeat of the Japanese in Mindanao
File:SmallOCS.jpg
These Filipino soldiers would be sent from Brisbane, Australia to the Philippines by submarine, prior to the invasion
[edit] English
Can someone who speaks english as a native tongue please work on this article? I don't have time to correct EACH MISTAKE in this article, but the sentence structure and grammar is atrocious.Dragonnas (talk) 20:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Japanese Motives During World War II
The claims made in the article about how Japan came to attack U.S. forces in the Philippines is blatantly absurd. While the Japanese were hardly benevolent or benign, they were certainly not driven by a belief that "all Asian lands" somehow belonged to Japan. That's propaganda, and a particularly bad one at that. Somebody should write more factually on Japan's strategic rivalry with the United States in the Pacific and the evolution of its strategy in case of a war--and where in that strategy Philippines fit in.128.196.23.228 (talk) 21:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
