Category: Luz Banzon Magsaysay

Part 6 Restless governor As military governor and district commander, Ramon Magsaysay assigned local guerrillas to US Army units in

Part 5 Bad blood In Manila, the American Liberation forces stopped several Huk squadrons at the corner of Avenida Rizal

Part 4   March to Nueva Vizcaya General Tomoyuki Yamashita’s Shobu Group continued their march towards northern Luzon. On February

Part 3 Boone’s arrival It was late in the afternoon when local guerillas led by Colonel John Boone and Guillermo

Part 2 Atrocities in Manila In between air raids, the Japanese concentrated in Manila, the Japanese Naval Defense Force under

Chapter 6 (1st of 6 parts) Liberation January 1, 1945 was the beginning of a glorious year for the Filipinos.

War time By mid-1940, Adolf Hitler of Germany had already overran Europe. The Japanese, on the other side of the