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Post by jimmay on Dec 7, 2007 23:09:34 GMT -5
Hello everyone. It's been almost a year since I have started studying and researching the Philippine Scouts and the Bataan Campaign. I looked back and thought, "what got me started researching on the Bataan Campaign?" I guess that I was half Filipino and interested in WW2, I wanted to know how the Philippines was related to WW2. It was a bit difficult at first, in High School, the only thing I knew the Philippines in WW2 was the death march and MacArthur, hardly any info from my school about it. However when I ran into the PSHS website, there was A LOT of info what actually happened on Bataan. I was amazed of the hardships these soldiers dealt with, Bataan grabbed my attention more than the European Campaign.
I was wondering what got your attention when you have heard about the Bataan Campaign for the first time?
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Post by VeeVee on Dec 7, 2007 23:59:31 GMT -5
Hello Jimmay, Glad to hear you got interested in Philippine WW2 history. As for me, I can't say there was one defining event that got me started in it. I'm actually the most fascinated in the Bataan campaign. As far as I can remember it had already fascinated me back when I was a kid. Can't explain why, there was just something about it.
Some members in these forum have their own areas of interest. It's great because we can all learn from one another. -victor
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Post by legionnaire on Dec 8, 2007 13:36:32 GMT -5
I only got into the Bataan campaign when I really got into the reenacting hobby. And quickly discovered there was no group except the Dizon and sons who were showing to the American and Filipino public here about the role of the Filipino soldiers in WWII and it's relationship to American history. What was schocking to me was the total ignorance of a lot of the American and Filipino's here in the US about this big event in the two countries histories.
Another major influence for me was meeting veterans of the greatests generation who are slowly being forgotten. This is were my passion to help keep the spirit and memory of the bataan campaign alive keeps me going. As i started to read and collect as much material on that fateful period, I realized that it is not commemorated here in the US and it seems all the sacrifices of the Bataan veterans were in vain. It makes me angry and feel betrayed that historians and the media always loved to focus on the European theater and when it comes to the Pacific it is always about IWO Jima a spec in the biggest Ocean on earth.
Ask any person about the pacific war and the first thing that comes to in mind is always Iwo Jima even before the films came out. As if the entire pacific war was fought in just that spec of an island. So it is up to us to try and educate and raise as much awareness about the biggest land and Naval battle in the Pacific including the longest seige and delayiing action ever held in WWII was in the Philippines. They must not be forgotten and the spirit kept alive through our hobby.
Philip
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Post by flatbar on Dec 11, 2007 8:12:06 GMT -5
I only got into the Bataan campaign when I really got into the reenacting hobby. And quickly discovered there was no group except the Dizon and sons who were showing to the American and Filipino public here about the role of the Filipino soldiers in WWII and it's relationship to American history. What was schocking to me was the total ignorance of a lot of the American and Filipino's here in the US about this big event in the two countries histories. found this on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfjC3DFb5UQwww.youtube.com/watch?v=fo09sUtFmnAflatbar
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Post by legionnaire on Dec 11, 2007 18:10:38 GMT -5
Hi Flatbar,
Are you Danon Dizon? If you are Danon i got to meet and visit your brother Ged in his talyer and your father in his residence in Pampanga in 2000 through Col Aguilar.
Philip
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Post by flatbar on Dec 12, 2007 0:57:23 GMT -5
Philip,
No I'm not Danon, but i am a close friend and also a Dizon. I Also have have a 1943 Willys MB that was restored at the Dizon Motorpool, and proud to have done by them. great guys...
Flatbar
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Post by VeeVee on Dec 12, 2007 9:55:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the video links. That's a really good coverage of their historical hobby. I hope their hobby gets more exposure back home.
Regards to the Dizons. Do you have a picture of your jeep that you can share with us? Thanks. -victor
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