Museum Guests Testimonials: March 2024
Tim Cilso is a WWII enthusiast on vacation in the Philippines when he visited our Bamban WWII Museum. He is a descendant of WWII veterans.
INVESTIGATING HISTORY: HACHIRO AKASHI – THE JOURNEY OF FIREFLY: A VISIT BY DESCENDANT OF A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE PILOT AT BAMBAN MUSEUM: 日本海軍パイロット明石八郎とその家族のバンバン博物館訪問
Visit of Bereaved Families from Japan Seventy-five years ago, when the war ended in WWII, the effects of the war and the death of a member of family still linger on both sides; Filipino, Americans and Japanese. On my part, we lost our grandfather, 2nd Lieutenant Mauricio Cauguiran of the USAFFE guerrillas of Bamban. The …
INVESTIGATING HISTORY : THE CAPTURE OF HILL 1700 – BAMBAN & THE RAISING OF THE AMERICAN FLAG ON FEBRUARY 25, 1945
Unknown to many, there were also important events in the History of WWII in the Philippines that are worthy for remembrance. In our case in Bamban, Tarlac, our grandfathers and uncles fought in the many months of campaign in the mountains against the Japanese who were defending their positions in almost suicidal way. This was …
TARLAQUENA BENITA PEREZ & THE WOMEN FIGHTERS FROM TARLAC ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’s DAY (MARCH 8, 2024)
One of the photographs available at the U.S. National Archives related to Tarlac province in WWII is the photo of Benita Perez, a woman guerrilla fighter taken in 1945, most probably in February. A closer examination of this photograph shows Benita, with the Philippine flag, carries a revolver handgun on her left waist in a …
OPERATION FIREFLIES 2023: SEARCH & RECOVERY OF JAPANESE WAR DEAD
2023 Bamban Historical Society Bamban WWII Museum Center and Japanese Pacific War Studies Provincial Government of Tarlac Tarlac Provincial Tourism Office Visit of Tarlac Fact Finding Mission at Bamban WWII Museum The Mission Team composed of representatives and forensic experts from Japan Ministry of Labor, Health and Welfare, National Museum and Department of Interior and …
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JAPANESE WORLD PEACE DAY
2023 Bamban Historical Society Bamban WWII Museum Center for Japanese Pacific War Studies Province Government of Tarlac Tarlac Provincial Tourism Office OCTOBER 25 JAPANESE WORLD PEACE DAY At the former Japanese airfields in Mabalacat and at the 201 Meter Granite Hill of Lilly Hill, we visited these sites on the occasion the Japanese consider the …
PROJECT DISCOVERY WWII TUNNELS : Calang and Target Japanese War Tunnels Survey
2023 Bamban Historical Society Bamban WWII Museum Center for Japanese Pacific War Studies Provincial Government of Tarlac Tarlac Provincial Tourism Office In the pursuit of preserving WWII History, our Field Recon Team was joined by the Philippine MIA/POW Research Team and the Pacific War Stories led by Gerald Randy Anderson, Sr., Tim Beckensall, Kevin Hamdorf …
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WWII ARTIFACTS: Donation of Relic of Imperial Japanese Army Type 90 Steel Combat Helmet and Occupation Currency
2023 Bamban Historical Society Bamban WWII Museum Center for Pacific War Studies Our sincere thanks and appreciation to Joseph Daniel Timbol and his company for the donation of Japanese Type 90 helmet to Bamban Museum. Said Type 90 was recovered by a farmer from Consolacion, Cebu and most probably used by a Japanese soldier belonging …
INVESTIGATING HISTORY The Philippine-American War THE TINUBA INCIDENT – MARCH 4, 1900: THE FORGOTTEN BRUTALITY IN TARLAC DURING THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR
Copyright 2020 Bamban Historical Society Bamban Museum of History “Matakot sa kasaysayan, pagka’t walang lihim na di’ nahahayag.” Gregoria de Jesus Philippine-American War is considered by many, as the forgotten war. Simply the history of that dark episode in our nation in the fight for freedom and national sovereignty has not been published especially in …
BAMBAN AS GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO’s HQ AND CAPITAL, JUNE 5-6, 1899: A 125th COMMEMORATION OF OUR INDEPENDENCE IN 2024.
This is our institutions’ way of highlighting the role of our town of Bamban in the upcoming commemoration of our 125th Independence in 2024.