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Yahagi Memorial Cemetery Monument Don Pedro Subdivision, Marulas, Valenzuela: May 27, 1942 Originally erected in 1938 to commemorate the 48 crew members of the IJN Yahagi who were buried at the British Cemetery Manila (current location). During, the Japanese occupation, the Imperial Japanese Navy celebrated their Navy Day with the rededication ...
Amphibious Training Base Morro Bay also called Camp Morro Bay and Morro Bay Section Base was a US Navy training base for amphibious beach assault during World War II. The base opened in 1941 to train troops for the Pacific theater of operations' island leapfrogging using landing craft and LCVP. The base was located in Morro Bay, California in ...
The cemetery, 152 acres or 620,000 square meters in area, is located on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. [1] With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations. [1]
Pages in category "World War II memorials in the Philippines" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
World War II memorials in the Philippines (5 P) Pages in category "World War II sites in the Philippines" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Manila American Cemetery maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission in Manila, Philippines Bataan Memorial Death March —A 26-mile (42 km) march commemorating the Bataan Death March, held yearly at the White Sands Missile Range , New Mexico, US, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars .
On the same day, the Japanese invaded several locations in northern Luzon and advanced rapidly southward toward Manila, capital and largest city of the Philippines. The U.S. army, consisting of about 20,000 Americans and 80,000 Filipinos, retreated onto the Bataan Peninsula .
American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress, 4). Osprey Publishing (UK). ISBN 1-84176-427-2. Morton, Louis (1953). The Fall of the Philippines. U.S. Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 5-2. Archived from the original on 2012-01-08