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 …