Roosevelt signed a bill that made the Philippines a commonwealth until 1946, when it would become fully independent. Quezon was elected president of the new commonwealth. World War II interrupted ...
The last time Japan’s army came to the Philippines in big numbers was during World War II, amid an invasion that left the country in ruins. But that was 80 years ago. Now, the Philippines wants ...
Cox, a retired US admiral who heads the NHHC. The Philippines was one of the main Pacific battlegrounds of World War Two, as the US fought to retake its former colony from the Japanese Imperial Army.
A 25-year-old Milwaukee airman, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, has been accounted ... when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December.