Guiuan as a Naval and Air Base in WWII
By Ricardo Trota Jose
This is an article published in the Journal of History Vol. LXIX {January-Dece4mber 2023}: 50-79 2023 The Philipp0ine National Historical Society, Inc.
The article has 15 pages which include 17 images and you can read it with this URL, but you got to copy and post it in another browser:
Dr. Rico Jose is the most important Philippine Historian about WWII, click here:
Dr. Rico Jose is my friend and he gave me permission to use his article. I copied the 1st page and the 17 pictures and present them here.
For various historical reasons I have visited that area several times and have documented those visits, here are two URLs, click here:
He did not mention these two stories I know of, “The Bells of Balangiga” and Gen. MacArthur sent coast watchers into the Philippines and with great help from local Guerillas they established themselves on Luzon, and the Visayan Islands. Two coast watcher details I know of landed here, coming by boat from Mindanao, and marched up the Samar east coast with help of the local Guerillas and carabaos sleds and banca boats. Here are the URLs, click here:
And in 1949 the White Russians refugees were housed here for a few years in the former Guiuan Naval Base Receiving Station, look it up.
