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Capas National Shrine in Capas, Tarlac. The Philippines being one of the major theaters of World War II, has commissioned a number of monuments, cemeteries memorials, preserved relics, and established private and public museums, as well as National Shrines, to commemorate battles and events during the invasion, occupation, and liberation of the country.
Oakdale Cowboy Museum: Oakdale: Stanislaus: History: website, saddles, branding irons, boots, spurs and chaps, ranching, rodeo cowboys and cowgirls Oakdale Museum and History Center: Oakdale: Stanislaus: Local history: website, operated by the Friends of Oakdale Heritage in the mid 19th-century Sydnor-Prowse House Patterson Township Historical ...
World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-military Study. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313313950. Sandler, Stanley (2001). World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780815318835.
Camp O'Donnell is a current military base and former United States military reservation in the Philippines located on Luzon island in the municipality of Capas in Tarlac.It housed the Philippine Army's newly created 71st Division and after the Americans' return, a United States Army camp.
It stretches 2.24 kilometres (1.39 mi) at an average depth of 70 feet (21 m) that spans from the Pasig River, to the area now called Pembo and East Rembo. The Fort McKinley Tunnel was intended for the creation of an underground aerial bombing-free Air Warning Service of the Army Air Force known as “The Fort McKinley Project”.
The Battle of Ormoc Bay was a series of air-sea battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in the Camotes Sea in the Philippines from 9 November-21 December 1944, at Ormoc, part of the Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
May 19—More than 40 years after being killed in action in the closing days of World War II, a memorial stone was dedicated for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joseph Donini. The dedication was held May 28 ...
The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined United States Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp.