Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
A small crowd of fifty gathered on May 12, 2023 to commemorate the 78th Anniversary of the Liberation of Cagayan de Oro during World War II at the Xavier University Museo de Oro with the opening program for The Road to Victory Exhibit and Lecture Series. Although the organizers invited local officials from the local …
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Aside from the accounts of military historians and members of his staff who traveled with him from Corregidor to Cagayan, Misamis on his famous Breakout, here are two extant eyewitness accounts of civilians who had first hand encounters with General Douglas MacArthur during his arrival in Mindanao and layover at Tankulan, Bukidnon from March 13-17, …
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March 13, 1942 is frequently mentioned in the annals of the Second World War in the Pacific Theatre as the date of the arrival of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his family and general staff at the Macabalan Wharf in Cagayan de Oro (formerly Cagayan de Misamis, Misamis Oriental) after a harrowing two-day trip from Corregidor aboard …
Continue reading “Del Monte to Oz : MacArthur’s Flight to Australia”
By Raul B. Ilogon In time for the celebration of Araw ng Kagitingan, I would like to honor a group of patriots whose small but dangerous organization was credited to have contributed materially to the eventual defeat of the enemy during World War II. The heroic story of these young men and women must be …
Continue reading “The Live Or Die (LOD) Unit of the Mindanao Guerrillas”
The Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park in Bukidnon is an ASEAN Heritage Park that holds a special place in the history and heritage of World War II. With a total land area of 47,270 hectares, it is located in northern Mindanao in the province of Bukidnon in Region 10. Mount Kitanglad is one of five peaks in …
Continue reading “Quinine from Bukidnon a key to Allied Victory in the Pacific during World War II”
The Battle of Dipolog is an interesting study of World War II in the Pacific Theatre, because not only was it a small scale showcase of the American armed forces joint operation tactics to retake its Philippine territories from the Imperial Japanese Army, featuring close coordination not only between the US Army, Navy and Marines but even more strategic, how the intelligence on the ground and support from local Filipino-American guerrillas contributed to the eventual victory.
75th Cagayan Liberation Feature When Cagayan de Oro had to mark the 75th Anniversary of its Liberation from Imperial Japan on May 12, 2020 behind closed doors, it recalled a similar situation when everyone’s freedom of movement was drastically curtailed by the Japanese Occupation from 1942 to 1945. The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) imposed tight restrictions …
