4. 3 Main Points
1.The controversy inWashington DC
over the Presidential succession of the
Commonwealth Government
2.The flight of Jose P. Laurel’s
government
3.The return of the Liberation Forces
5. Mrs. Aurora Quezon, Mrs. Jean Faircloth
MacArthur, Pres. Manuel Quezon., Arthur
MacArthur, Maria Aurora Quezon.
Corregidor, 1942
6. On March 29, 1942, President
Quezon and his family arrived
in Adelaide, Australia. They
next day they proceeded to
Melbourne where they were
welcomed by General Douglas
MacArthur and his wife.
9. CommonwealthWar Cabinet-
in-exile: (L to R)
Defense Secretary Basilio J.
Valdes, Resident
Commissioner Joaquin
Elizalde, President Manuel L.
Quezon,Vice President Sergio
Osmeña, Finance Secretary
Andres Soriano, Auditor-
General Jaime Hernandez.
Washington D.C. May 1942
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11. Quezon with Dr.Vinzon, 1942
President Quezon confers the
Medal ofValor on Major Emigdio
Cruz, Miami Florida.
March 1944
12. On the left, President Manuel
Quezon and Vice President
Osmeña strike a pose shortly
after their inauguration in
1934. On the right, Sergio
Osmeña pays respect to his
friend. He assumed the
presidency after Quezon’s
death. He was 67 years old.
18. In 1944, three days after the
arrival of theAllied Liberation
Forces at Red Beach, Ruperto
Kangleon, the Filipino leader
of the resistance movement
in Leyte is appointed the
military governor of Leyte.
20. Gen. Douglas MAcArthur and Gen.
Jonathan Wainwright in a Hotel in
Tokyo, in August 1945.This was the
first meeting of these two men, since
Gen. MacArthur left the Philippines for
Australia on Mach 11, 1942. Gen.
Wainwright was a POW from May 6,
1942 to August 1945.
21. In October 1942, approximately 1500 POWs, from Cabanatuan, boarded theTottori Maru, in Pier 7 in Manila.
The ship took them to Fusan, Korea where they boarded a train and were sent to Camp Hoten in Mukden,
Manchuria arriving in early November 1942. Most of these men were forced to work as slave laborers at the
Manchuko KK, a factory that made parts for Japanese tanks and other war related hardware.They were
liberated in August 1945.
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25. A burial detail of Filipino
POWs uses improvised
litters to carry fallen
comrades at Camp
O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac
1942 following the
Bataan Death March.
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30. In July 1961, Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur made
a sentimental journey back to the Philippines. Here
he’s shown in Cebu visiting former President Sergio
Osmeña. Three months later, the former president
passed away, on the eve of the anniversary of his
and MacArthur’s famous Leyte Landing.
31. The Camp O’Donnell Memorial Monument built
by the organization knonw as “The Battling
Bastards of Bataan” to honor those American
men who died at the camp while prisoners of
the Japanese.
32. Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who hid in the
Philippine jungle for 29 years.
Taken on March 11, 1974 shows former Japanese Imperial
Army soldier Hiroo Onoda offering his military sword to
former Pres. Marcos to express his surrender.
