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 …
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 …
OPERATION FIREFLIES 2023: SEARCH & RECOVERY OF JAPANESE WAR DEAD Read More »
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 …
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 …
PROJECT DISCOVERY WWII TUNNELS : Calang and Target Japanese War Tunnels Survey Read More »
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 …
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 …
This is our institutions’ way of highlighting the role of our town of Bamban in the upcoming commemoration of our 125th Independence in 2024.
The Taiwanese had the share of WWII History in Bamban-Clark area, as more than 600 Formosans were deployed in the Bamban Hills in January 1945 as part of the labor force of the Imperial Japanese Navy Clark Defense Force under Rear Admiral Sugimoto. Called the Setsueitai, the Taiwanese were unarmed and non-combatants, were conscripted from …
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Two images of the Pampanga Capitol, the first one taken most probably in February 1945 by a US Army Signal Corps photographer with the Filipino forces in front of the entrance, and the other during my recent visit. The Filipino soldiers belonged to the HUKBALAHAP unit, responsible in liberating the area even before the coming …
Finally, Mike Howard’s collection mostly of Japanese artifacts from the Battle of Bamban Hills 1945 are back and now part of the permanent exhibit. The most prized items included the Grandpa Nambu 1902, triangle ruler, pencil case all with Japanese markings (probably name or identification of owner) and ampules with liquid still inside the container. …
RETURN INTO BAMBAN: THE JOURNEY OF WWII RELICS RECOVERED FROM BAMBAN HILLS Read More »
