Today in history: Generals confront looming defeat

The only eyewitness account of a meeting of the senior generals on Bataan

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Today in history: A Cavite cemetery, 1899

Hammock-style coffins and mummified friars on display

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Today in history: Touring the provinces

With renowned archeologist Otley Beyer as your guide, no less in 1936

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Today in history: Filipino eyewitness to Tokyo bombing

What it was like to live in a capital undergoing systematic destruction from the air

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Today in history: Ike unhappy with Mac

The former subordinate confesses he prefers his old boss to stay in Bataan

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Today in history: Discomfort in the deep

It turns out submarines had airconditioning (when it was working)

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Today in history: Escape from Corregidor

Boarding an American submarine to escape the Japanese

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Today in history: A hostile look at Manila

Observations from 1866 might strike a chord with present-day readers

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Today in history: Mabini and American censorship

A letter to his brother ends up irritating his jailers in Guam

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Today in history: Sundaes and suffering

The former very good in 1915-era Manila; the latter, elicits a strange response

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