How the Japanese Army set up Defenses against Allied Forces in Santo Tomas, Batangas in 1945
[Keywords: Batangas, Santo Tomas, military intelligence, Japanese Imperial Army, Nasugbu Landing, bunker, entrenchment, trench] From a de...
May 2018
The Hukbalahap in Batangas in the Immediate Post-WWII Years
[Keywords: Huk, Mateo del Castillo, Partidang Komunista ng Pilipinas, Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan, Peasant Revolt in the Philippines, Comm...
More about Base R, an American Logistics Base in Batangas City in WWII
[Keywords: Batangas City, Base R, United States Army, Historical Data, Barrio Santa Clara, Hilltop, Mainaga Cove, military logistics] In ...
Historical Landing Fields or Airstrips in Batangas
[Keywords: Aerodrome, Airstrip, Landing Field, Airdrome, Nasugbu, Calatagan, Batangas, Lemery, Tanauan, Lipa] Up to the present day, ther...
A CIA Report’s View on Elpidio Quirino’s Presidency and the Continuing Influence of Batangas’ Jose P. Laurel
[Keywords: Elpidio Quirino, Jose P. Laurel, 1949 Philippine Elections, Nacionalista Party, Liberal Party, fraudulent election 1949, declass...
Taysan, Batangas in the 19th Century as Described by a Spanish Historian
[Keywords: Batangas, Taysan, Batangay y su Provincia, Manual Sastron, 19 th century Batangas, Monte Mapolo, Toribio Mateo, Fr. Gregorio Pa...
Picture Compilation of Evidences of Japanese Atrocities in Santo Tomas, Batangas in 1945
This post contains a compilation of photographs taken in 1945 of survivors of Japanese atrocities committed earlier that same year in the t...
US Army Signal Corps Pictures taken during the Liberation of Santo Tomas, Batangas in 1945
A set of pictures taken by the United States Army Signal Corps in the Philippines in 1945 and filed away at the United States National Arch...
US Army Signal Corps Photos taken while in the town of Lipa in 1945
This is the second article featuring photographs taken by the United States Army Signal Corps while stationed in Batangas. Those posted ear...
Brief History of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception of Batangas City
[Keywords: Batangas Church, Immaculate Conception, Minor Basilica, Batangas City, Fray Diego Mojica, Fr. Pedro Cuesta, Monsignor Cirilo Cas...
Particulars of the Now-Defunct Nasugbu ‘Landing' or Airfield, Pre-WWII and onwards
[Keywords: Batangas, Nasugbu, Nasugbu Landing, Nasugbu Airfield, Nasugbu Aerodrome, Roxas y Cia, Ayala y Cia, American Era Philippines] Fr...
US Army Signal Corps Pictures while in Batangas City Post-World War II
In the months immediately after the conclusion of World War II in the Pacific Theater, the United States Army Signal Corps maintained a fac...
Controversy in the Recognition of Guerrilla Groups by the US Army in 1946
[Keywords: guerrilla activity in Batangas, Hunters/ROTC, Filipino-American Irregular Troops, FAIT, World War II, Japanese occupation of the...
Examining a “Tale” of Corruption during Spanish-Era Tanauan, Batangas
[Keywords: Tanauan, Batangas, Antonio Villapando, Doña Maria Tapia, Doña Vicentica Leyba, corruption, panguingue, capital municipal, gobern...
The Torture of Filipinos in Calaca by US Soldiers during the Fil-Am War
[Keywords: Frederick T. Arnold, Private Andrew K. Weir, Sergeant Edwards, Calaca, Batangas, water torture, water cure, Philippine-American ...
Calatagan, Batangas: Historic and Folkloric Notes about some of its Barrios
[Keywords: Batangas, Calatagan, History of Calatagan, Folklore of Calatagan, Western Batangas, Barrios of Calatagan, Baha, Balibago, Balito...
Conditions of Bus Transportation around Batangas in the 1950s
[Keywords: Batangas Transportation Company, BTCo, Laguna Tayabas Bus Company, LTB, Calaca, Balayan, Lipa, Candelaria, Lemery, Batangas trav...
Balayan, Batangas in the 19th Century according to a Spanish Historian
[Keywords: Balayan, Batangas, Manuel Sastron, Batangas y su Provincia, 19 th Century Batangas, 19 th Century Balayan, Spanish Era Batanga...