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Post by VeeVee on Jan 9, 2007 9:40:42 GMT -5
I found this interesting website. www.pma40.com/One of the Acostas in the class of 1940 was my childhood buddy's grandfather. He commanded a 21st Division field artillery battalion in Bataan and was favorably mentioned many times in the book, The Naked Flagpole by Col. Mallonee. I met him in Baguio in 1988 but didn't know that he was a PMA and Bataan vet.
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Post by RayAdillO on Jan 9, 2007 21:28:03 GMT -5
Wow, that's very interesting. Are the two Acostas brothers? That's very rare for blood relatives, let alone brothers to be in the same PMA class. I remember that my dad kept my uncle's PMA original yearbooks for class 39, 40 and 41. Two still exist, but they are misplaced somewhere at my dad's house in Ouezon City. One got wet with its pages stuck together and finally rotted. I don't recall which class yearbook it was.
I'll post some pages as soon as get my hands on them again when I get back to the Philippines before summer this year.
The big tragedy is that my uncle was able to keep an almost complete set of the pre-WW2 "The Corps" magazines because he was a cadet photographer for this PMA monthly publication. My dad lent it to a classmate of my uncle's back in the 70's and we never saw it again.
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