Part 6 Restless governor As military governor and district commander, Ramon Magsaysay assigned local guerrillas to US Army units in the towns to serve in various ways. He handpicked his office personnel ..

Part 5 Bad blood In Manila, the American Liberation forces stopped several Huk squadrons at the corner of Avenida Rizal and Antipolo Street. The Huks were promptly disarmed for entering the city without ..

Part 4   March to Nueva Vizcaya General Tomoyuki Yamashita’s Shobu Group continued their march towards northern Luzon. On February 1, they proceeded from Natividad, Pangasinan to Kuyapo, Nueva Vizcaya. ..

Part 3 Boone’s arrival It was late in the afternoon when local guerillas led by Colonel John Boone and Guillermo Arcenas showed up at the Layac Junction. They were welcomed by the American contingent. ..

Part 2 Atrocities in Manila In between air raids, the Japanese concentrated in Manila, the Japanese Naval Defense Force under the command of Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi, started a series of atrocities ..

Chapter 6 (1st of 6 parts) Liberation January 1, 1945 was the beginning of a glorious year for the Filipinos. The news about the naval victory of American forces at Leyte Gulf, launched on October 26, 1944, ..

War time By mid-1940, Adolf Hitler of Germany had already overran Europe. The Japanese, on the other side of the globe, joined the Axis powers in September 1940 and by April 1941, was ready to expand her empire ..