A Civilian’s Life in Misamis Oriental during World War II FILOMENO “Dodong” Avanceña Bautista Jr. was 14 and a second-year high school student when the war broke out between Japan and the United States on Dec. 8, 1941. At Misamis Oriental High School that Monday morning, as he stood waiting for the flag ceremony to …
Category Archives: World War II
The Secret Service
Spies of the Kagay-anon Guerrillas in World War II Aside from being Kagay-anon residents during World War II, the following names had another thing in common: they were Cagayan de Oro’s civilian operatives serving the Guerrilla Army as spies. I call them The Silent Warriors. They lived within Japanese-held Cagayan de Oro and lived with …
RELIVING MINDANAO’s LIBERATION 1945
US Vet’s kin makes nostalgic trip tracing the Liberation of Eastern Mindanao in 1945 Harry Balser and his wife Mary recently undertook a nostalgia trip to retrace the journey taken by his Uncle Macy’s unit during the liberation of Eastern Mindanao eight decades ago. Balser’s Uncle Macy Carneal served as an infantry man with the …
Rediscovering History
MacArthur returns to Cagayan and Malaybalay in June 5, 1945 During the 75th Anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur’s arrival in Cagayan de Oro on March 13, 1942 on the first leg of his famous Breakout from Corregidor, I joined a group of reenactors who traced the route of the convoy he took from the Macabalan …
82nd Anniversary of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s arrival in Cagayan de Oro commemorated with turnover of repaired PT-41 scale model
The City Government of Cagayan de Oro, the Cagayan de Oro World War II & Veterans Studies Committee, Veterans Federation of the Philippines Region X, Philippine Veterans Affairs Office and 4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army, commemorated the 82nd Anniversary of USAFFE Commander General Douglas MacArthur’s arrival at Macabalan Port aboard PT-41 piloted by Lt. John …
CDO in Agoda’s Top 5 most searched PH Travel Destinations in 2024
Cagayan de Oro is among the Philippines top 5 most searched travel destinations for 2024, according to the travel booking online platform Agoda. Agoda’s 2024’s “Philippines’ New Horizons” is a list of local destinations most searched by travelers year-on-year, who used agoda.com for search, travel and hotel bookings. “While the Philippines’ well-loved destinations continue to attract their fair share of …
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DAUNTLESS
The story of a top secret Filipino unit that fought Imperial Japan in Occupied Philippines The tensions growing with China’s incursions in the West Philippines Sea have again revived similar times during the early 1940s when Imperial Japan began expanding its empire by invading China, then Southeast Asia including the Philippines. Author Marie Silva Vallejo recalls those turbulent times …
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 A𝒓𝒕 : 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑾𝒂𝒓 M𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆
A professional lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines-Diliman has adopted an interesting tack in historiography through the art of two Japanese soldiers stationed in the Philippines during World War II. 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐥 Ian 𝐔𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐚’s lecture The Afterlives of Art: Problematizing the Anti-War Message proposes the creation of a space …
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Angeles L. Limena, Soldier-Priest
Angeles Labrador Limena was born October 2, 1899 in Sorsogon, Sorsogon. He was christened Angeles by his parents since his birth date fell on the Feast of the Catholic festival of the Guardian Angels. He went to study in Sorsogon to be a priest, but before he was ordained he left to join the armed forces in Manila …
Guerrilla Padres in Northern Mindanao during World War II
Fr Dimaano, Fr Moran, Bishop Hayes, and Fr O’Brien join Fr Haggerty during his installation as as Rector of Ateneo de Cagayan in 1937. (Jesuit Archives)