THE JAPANESE NAVAL HEADQUARTERS IN BAMBAN HILLS: A JOURNEY INTO LOST WWII HISTORY THE JAPANESE NAVAL HQ IN BAMBAN HILLSHistorian Rhonie Dela Cruz has been gathering materials and conducts research in the past decade related to WWII in the region. In one of his discoveries, the Japanese Naval HQ of the 1st Combined Air Fleet …
The Battle of Bamban Hills was fought in 1945, on the strategic rough mountains north of Clark Field in the Philippines and overlooking the vast plains where the important Japanese-built air strips were located and used during the air campaign in WWII. By end of December 1944, the Japanese Army and Navy Air Service had …
Watch our Youtube video on the day about 1,000 students, parents and teachers from San Manuel, Tarlac visited the Bamban WWII Museum.
For the first time, about 1,000 Filipino elementary and high school students and teachers comprising 32 buses made the museum tour on the afternoon of April 21, 2024. This unprecedented number of guests in just a single museum tour has been made possible with the cooperation and assistance of Director Anthony Hernandez, Karen Lacsamana Carrera …
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2024 Bamban WWII MuseumBamban Historical SocietyProvincial Government of TarlacTarlac Provincial Tourism OfficeFIELD RECON ON JAPANESE WWII TUNNELS OF BUROG HILL (HILL 1500, YASHIMA MOUNTAIN) WITH THE TARLAC PROVINCIAL TOURISM OFFICE STAFFHigh above the Bamban Hills rough terrain, Burog Hill majestically located in the center of the Japanese last stand position in 1945; the 14th Naval …
Project Discovery WWII Japanese Tunnels: Target Lafe Hill A sunny Sunday morning led us for a field survey of the Japanese WWII tunnels of Lafe Hill; one of the several nose-ridges overlooking the main MacArthur highway north of Mabalacat and south of Bamban . Photographs in February 1945 taken by 40th Division U.S. Army shows …
As we are celebrating the Veterans Week 2024 to include the Filipino Valor in the Battle of Bataan and the enduring spirits in the Bataan Death March, as well as the resilience of the Filipino people especially the guerrillas during Japanese Occupation and the events of the Liberation 1945, we would like to extend our …
Bamban Hills was considered by the U.S. Army in their published Military Bulletin in August 1945 as “the most extensive tunnel defense ever fought in the Pacific outside of Okinawa.”. More than a thousand tunnels were constructed by the Japanese Imperial Forces in the Bamban-Clark area during the war. Many of these were sealed during …
Our town of Bamban had played in some significant roles in the development of our country as an independent and sovereign nation and in the fight towards independence at the height of the Philippine-American War of 1899. At times, this small town became the Presidential Office and Headquarters of General Emilio Aguinaldo on June 6, …
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Clark Field in late October 1944 till the end of December of the year became the basement of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force, with most of the tactical units (air group) of the 1st and 2nd Air Fleet. This was due to the activation of the Sho-Ichi-Go Operation (also known as the Leyte Operation), …
