#WW2inPH
LightNews LightNews
ww2inph.bsky.social
American soldiers patrolling down Avenida Rizal, Manila, Philippines 1945

#WW2inPH #History #WWII #WW2 #BattleofManila #Manila
February 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) firing her 16-inch primary guns during a drill in the Pacific Ocean, 1944.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Battleship #BattleshipIowa #USNavy #Navy
January 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Tram lines in Corregidor (1941)🚃 = The island boasted its own rail infrastructure which transported men and materiel to key points located in the military facility known as Fort Mills.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Tram #Corregidor #FortMills
January 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Captain and Mrs. Alfredo Soniega, formerly commanding officer of Squadron 268 guerrillas, Capt. Soniega is now attached to a U.S. infantry regiment. Mrs. Soniega travels with her husband and helps him fight. Luzon 1945. (US Signal Corps)

#Guerrilla #Guerrillas #Luzon #WW2inPH #WWII80 #WW2 #WWII
June 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Baluarte de San Andres, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, December 1941

Looking northwest across Intramuros

LIFE photograph collection
📸 Carl Mydans

#WW2inPH #Intramuros #Manila #History
December 3, 2024 at 9:09 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
1945: Americans Lee Rogers & John Todd outside the University of Santo Tomas concentration camp in the Philippines. The liberation of these camps shed light on the immense human cost in the Pacific theater.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #PrisonerOfWar #ImperialJapan
January 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
A minor Japanese war tunnel exploration conducted by the Bamban WWII Museum / Bamban Historical Society. These structures remain all over the Philippines, largely forgotten.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #WWII #Manila #BattleofManila
Bamban WWII Museum / Bamban Historical Society
2025 Bamban Historical Society Bamban WWII Museum Center for Pacific War Studies PGT – Tarlac Provincial Tourism Office PROJECT DISCOVERY WAR TUNNELS IN BAMBAN HILLS 2025 Operation Fireflies 2025...
www.facebook.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
"GIs pose with Filipino women at a bar. Many of them hold glasses. Christmas decorations hang from the ceiling. 1945." 🌟

Collection of Louis Zorko Jr via ww2online[dot]org

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Christmas
December 26, 2024 at 5:10 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
LST unloads trucks and ammunition under fire on Luzon.
#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Army #Navy #Luzon
January 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Photo: University of Santo Tomas internees form a crowd to greet General Douglas MacArthur who has dropped by at the former prisoner of war camp in February of 1945

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #UST #UniversityOfSantoTomas #Manila #MacArthur
February 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Imperial Japanese troops arrive in Manila on bicycles. January 2, 1942.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Bicycle #Manila
January 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
“To them, we must have seemed a vision from another century, wild-eyed horses pounding headlong, cheering, whooping men firing from the saddles.”

Edwin Ramsey was a 26th Cavalry lieutenant when he led the final cavalry charge in US Army history against the Imperial Japanese Army.

#WW2inPh #History
January 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
ww2inph.bsky.social
December 8, 1944 - "RAAF personnel serving in the Philippines campaign show keen interest in the Filipino method of pounding rice in a large bowl."

(Australian War Memorial)

#WW2inPH #WW2 #RAAF #Australia #History
December 4, 2024 at 12:40 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Dec 27, 1941: During an air raid on #Manila, Japanese planes bombed the old Santo Domingo Church in #Intramuros. After taking 2 direct hits, a great fire destroyed the entire church and its convent. The church's gutted shell was demolished in 1959.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2
December 28, 2024 at 3:50 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
The salute was a little #Filipino boy's own idea when a Coast Guard Combat Photographer encountered him somewhere on #LeyteIsland circa 1944/1945.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Leyte
December 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Santa Cruz, #Manila 1942, during Imperial Japanese Occupation.

#WW2inPH #WW2 #History
December 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
A 44th Tank Battalion Sherman destroyed by Japanese anti-tank assets. Likely an improvised depth charge mine.

#WW2inPH #History #WWII #WW2 #ShermanTank #Tank #Manila #BattleofManila
February 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Imperial Japanese reenactors

📸 (courtesy of the Philippine Living History group via Sir Perry Javier)

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #ImperialJapanese #Reenactors
January 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
#WorldWarII Imperial Japanese #propaganda poster. The "Asia for the Asiatics" doctrine (achieved purportedly by freeing Asia from Western powers) was one of the central themes the Imperial forces sought to push during their occupation of territories like the #Philippines.

#WW2inPH #History
December 9, 2024 at 10:38 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
March 18, 1945: "'Cats' build a ramp to the LST to facilitate unloading on the beach at Panay, P.I."

(NARA)

Note: 'Cats' are the Caterpillar bulldozers and LST stands for Landing Ship, Tank.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #LST #LandingShipTank
March 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Registration is now open for “War & Memory: 80 Years After”, the 2025 International WW2 Conference (Feb 18-19 @ Intramuros, Manila), presented by the Philippine World War II Memorial Foundation, in partnership with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

#WW2inPH #History #WW2
www.pia.gov.ph
January 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Jan 9, 1945: Amphibious ships from Task Force 78 & 79 landed the 6th Army on Lingayen Gulf. Preceded by shore bombardment, supported by Army land-based planes & aircraft via carriers, they were lightly opposed.

The kamikaze presence would only be felt after sunset.

#WW2inPh #History #WW2
January 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
ww2inph.bsky.social
25 January 1945: US Naval Air units strike Japanese installations at Cavite Naval Base.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #USNavy #Cavite
January 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
Some of the defenders of Bataan standing in formation. January 1942.

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Bataan #BattleofBataan
January 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
ww2inph.bsky.social
G.I.s photographed during the Battle of Balintawak Beer Brewery (February 1945) 🍻

Cheers folks! 😁

#WW2inPH #History #WW2 #Beer
December 29, 2024 at 11:20 AM