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During the Japanese occupation of the islands in World War II, there was an extensive Philippine resistance movement ( Filipino: Kilusan ng Paglaban sa Pilipinas ), which opposed the Japanese and their collaborators with active underground and guerrilla activity that increased over the years. Fighting the guerrillas – apart from the Japanese ...
Josefa Madamba Llanes Escoda (born Josefa Llanes y Madamba; 20 September 1898 – 6 January 1945) was a Filipino civic leader, social worker, World War II heroine, and suffragette. She is most known for campaigning for women's suffrage and as a founder [ 1] of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines .
Ramon A. Alcaraz. Commodore Ramon Abacan Alcaraz (August 31, 1915 – June 25, 2009) was a Filipino World War II hero, Naval officer, and businessman [1] best known as a recipient of the Silver Star for heroism and gallantry as part of the Offshore Patrol unit of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) during the Second World War; [2] [3 ...
Signature. Vicente Lim y Podico (February 24, 1888 – December 31, 1944) was a Filipino brigadier general and World War II hero. Lim was the first Filipino graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (Class of 1914). Prior to the establishment of the Philippine Army, he served as an officer in the Philippine Scouts (a now ...
Josefina Guerrero (August 5, 1917 – June 18, 1996) was a Filipina spy during World War II. [ 1] Guerrero had leprosy and was an unsuspicious and effective surveillance asset for American allied forces. [ 2][ 3]
230 missing, 5,069 wounded. The Battle of Bataan ( Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Imperial Japan during World War II. The battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
Nieves Fernandez (born circa 1906) was a Filipino guerrilla leader in Tacloban City, during World War II. [2] [3]Before the war, Fernandez worked as a school teacher. When the Imperial Japanese began occupying the Philippine Islands, including her hometown of Tacloban, Fernandez organized a resistance movement that numbered around 110 fighters. [4]
Young Barre Plains men Sgt. Joseph Illiscavitch and Sgt. Thomas Power were both casualties in the fierce fight for the Philippines in World War II.