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Kasaysayan — Stories from Our History

Longer stories and briefings behind the events — the background a timeline entry cannot hold. New articles appear here as they are written.

Found Again The Hofuku Maru: The Hell Ship Off Zambales An old freighter that sat two months at Manila with prisoners shut in her holds, broken in two by American planes on the day the sky changed sides — and found at last, eighty-one years later, by a Japanese record no one had read closely. Lives in the War José Abad Santos: A Rare Privilege The Chief Justice left to hold the free government in the south, who refused to serve the enemy and chose death over collaboration — and told his weeping son it was a rare chance to die for one's country. Lives in the War Manuel L. Quezon: The Government That Would Not Surrender The showman statesman from Baler who built the Commonwealth, then carried a free Philippine government out through the Japanese blockade — from the tunnels of Corregidor to a submarine, exile, and death still holding the office. Historical Briefing The Strategic Capture of Mindanao and the 1941 Southern Offensive Why the Japanese made Jolo and the southern islands a priority — a retrospective strategic analysis of the 1941 Philippine campaign.