Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
12 November 1942 Why The Early Guerrillas In MindanaoFactors Favorable For Guerrilla Growth: a) Natural Barriers: Mindanao turned out to be a fertile field for originating, nurturing, maturing and welding into a compact organization, guerrilla units. The island abounds in jungles, irregular land surface, rivers, mountains, steep cliffs, swamps and two big lakes (Lanao and …
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10 November 1944 On 10 November 1944, about 3:00 AM, no less than 400 Jap regulars and marines riding in Q-boats, launches and boats, landed at Madaum under cover of darkness. The men of Cos “G” and “H” deployed along the beach of Madaum discovered the presence and immediately fired at them, inflicting some casualties. …
5 November 1944 The attack on Pagadian was undertaken to disperse the eighty to one hundred Japs entrenched in the heart of the town, who were heavily armed with one 50 cal machinegun, BARs, rifles, cal 25, and one stock mortar. The attacking guerrilla mobile units had an average strength of fifty men and four …
30 October 1944 Misamis was considered the most strongly fortified garrison of the enemy in the province of Misamis Occidental. Since their wide-scale invasion on Northern Misamis Occidental and Zamboanga on 26 June 1943, they had entrenched themselves and found security in a four hundred year old moss covered Spanish fort situated on a promontory …
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18 June 1945 Combined American and guerrilla operations in the area of the 106th Division forced the remains of the enemy, as elsewhere, to flee to the mountains. 300 to 400 Jap troops sought refuge in the Mt Blik area, Cotabato (present day Talayan, Maguindanao), but hot on their trail were the combined American and …
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25 October 1942 Kabacan, in the heart of Cotabato, was garrisoned by the Japanese in 1942, and the government run by puppet officials. When the Rio Grande Rubber Estate was sold by the Filipino Incorporators to the Japanese Imperial Government, it became the site for the provisional municipal government with Cenon Doctolero as the appointed …
1 May 1945 The 130th Regiment, 107th Division, under the command of Major Saturnino R. Silva Sr., with a strength of eighty-nine officers 4nd 1,292 enlisted men, aided by the 111th Provisional Battalion (Bn), launched the Ising, Davao (present day Carmen, Davao del Norte) offensive on 1 May 1945 following orders from Col. Wendell W. …
18 APRIL 1945 The Combat Battalion (Bn), 113th Infantry Regiment, 110th Division, stationed at Butuan, Agusan, with a total strength of 363 officers and men, aided by the 3rd Battalion (Bn), 113th Inf Regt and supported by Navy Task Group No. 70.4, two LCIs Nos. 363 and 249 escorted by two LC’s Nos. 9 and …
3 March 1945 The “Private Road” encounter came to be so called because it happened on a “Private Road” leading to a hacienda occupied by a Japanese enterprise before the outbreak of the war. At 6:00 AM, 3 Mar 1945, a group of thirty to forty Japanese were encountered by the outpost of the Combat …
6 February 1945 Plans for the attack on Malabang, Lanao started 6 February 1945 but the general attack was not made until 6 Mar 1945 – it lasted for thirty-three days! The operation was undertaken to eliminate and wipe out the enemy in its garrison. The guerrilla forces in the engagement were: the Expedfitionary Battalion …
