Araw ng Kagitingan 2024WWII HEROES PROJECT 2024IN SEARCH OF WWII HEROES 79 years since the end of WWII, we have seen the setting sun for our veterans of WWII due to old age, notwithstanding the impact of the current pandemic that targeted the senior citizens with our WWII Heroes the most vulnerable. A town who …
BONIFACIO LACANLALE: A FORGOTTEN HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BATAAN FROM BAMBAN Read More »
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
