Talk:Military history of the Philippines during World War II

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To Do - more prose to fill in the outline below: additions, corrections welcome! These Filipino soldiers would be sent from Brisbane, Australia to the Philippines by submarine, prior to the invasion
 * World War II
 * Simultaneous attacks on Pearl Harbor, Manila, rest of Southeast Asia
 * Scattering of the populace
 * Retreat to Cordillera
 * Fall of Bataan
 * Bataan Death March
 * 100 000 prisoners
 * Torture to gain information
 * Retreat of US military to the Cordillera
 * We Remained COL Russell Volckmann
 * The Japanese search for collaborators with the guerillas
 * Island-hopping across the Pacific
 * Preparation of elements of the US Army, Military Intelligence Division (3000 men) in Brisbane Australia
 * During the pre-invasion of the Philippines, secret missions of the US Military Intelligence Division sent officers and men by submarine from Brisbane, Australia. They would rendezvous with sailboats in open waters, who would carry the soldiers to the Philippine coastline. During the transfer from submarine to sailboat, they used jerrycans to hold counterfeit Japanese money, which was intended to flood the countryside's economy with worthless currency.
 * Some veterans of these operations still live today 2003
 * US Link up with the US/Filipino guerillas (their khaki uniforms were a mass of stitches); fatigues were not government-issue before WWII
 * Invasion from the south
 * Lingayen Gulf invasion
 * Freeing of the populace
 * Bombardment of Manila
 * Rescue of POW's near Cabanatuan, Luzon by US Army Rangers, Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
 * Some Filipinos built an airfield with their bare hands
 * Last stand of the Japanese in Luzon
 * Defeat of the Japanese in Mindanao

English
Can someone who speaks english as a native tongue please work on this article? I don't have time to correct EACH MISTAKE in this article, but the sentence structure and grammar is atrocious.Dragonnas (talk) 20:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

English, when being referred to as a language is a proper noun. As such, it should be capitalized.

You erroneously used the word atrocious to describe the sentence structure and grammar in this article. Other than two or three words that should not have been capitalized and it's instead of its, the whole article was intelligible right up to March, 2008. I understood the whole article; that is what matters to me.

Are you sure that those atrocious sentence structure and grammar were not done by native English speakers?IsaLang (talk) 11:58, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Japanese Motives During World War II
The claims made in the article about how Japan came to attack U.S. forces in the Philippines is blatantly absurd. While the Japanese were hardly benevolent or benign, they were certainly not driven by a belief that "all Asian lands" somehow belonged to Japan. That's propaganda, and a particularly bad one at that. Somebody should write more factually on Japan's strategic rivalry with the United States in the Pacific and the evolution of its strategy in case of a war--and where in that strategy Philippines fit in.128.196.23.228 (talk) 21:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:30, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

All the lands of Asia?
In the section on the Japanese decision to attack it is stated, without providing a source, that Japan "viewed all the lands of Asia to be the rightful property of the Imperial Japanese Government and the Emperor" and that "central to the Japanese goals was the taking of all Asian lands." This would seem to be extraordinary if true (all the lands of Asia, right up to the Bosphorus and the Urals?); if Japanese policy-makers in fact held such ambitions it needs to be sourced. 850 C (talk) 14:04, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

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i just want to ask cause my great grand fathr is register nunder june 10 1942 date of induction under gen. miguel sayson and date of discharge march 11 1945, cant seem to find the organization49.149.6.225 (talk) 03:21, 4 November 2015 (UTC)jeoffrey san jose

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