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WWII - U.S. Forces in the Philippines: Too Little, Too Late
In the South Pacific, U.S. forces in the Philippines felt the brunt of Japanese military might on December 8, 1941.
Here s What You Need to Know: The ultimate fate of the Philippines had been determined long before the first bombs fell at Clark Field.
In the popular history of World War II, the assertion that the United States was caught unprepared in Hawaii and the Philippines has become widely accepted as fact. However, in the case of the Philippines, the proper word should be “under-prepared,” as this term more accurately represents the true situation that existed in the Philippine Islands in the early morning hours of December 8, 1941.
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PAMPANGA Sangil: Even Santa Claus will be stopped at the gates (A lingering memory of Christmas with the GIs in Clark)
+ December 14, 2020 THIS is a flashback. This is a story good to tell because it happened years ago. This was before the pandemic and the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. I will retell it once again. Even the forty years of age will only have any faint memory of what was Clark Air Force Base, the largest military installation outside of continental America. We were neighbors. ( The Americans settled in this country at the turn of the century after vanquishing the Spaniards in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. They were neighbors since Fort Stotsenberg in 1902 until their sudden departure in June 1991).