The Military | Bob's Blog

Everyday Life : A Philippine Christmas (1922 – 1941)
Posted November 13, 2022
Everyday Life: The Balintawak Beer Brewery
Posted July 17, 2022
The Military: Flagships of the Asiatic Fleet (1930’s)
Posted May 3, 2022
The Manila Elks Lodge “I am an American Day” Celebration
Posted January 8, 2022
An Expats Life in Manila on The Eve of WWII- The 1941 Letters of Charles Mock
Posted October 4, 2021
Manila Falls to the Imperial Japanese Army – January 1942
Posted July 12, 2021
Everyday Life: Popular Brands and Products sold in the Philippines (1930s)
Posted April 11, 2021
Everyday Life – Popular Consumer Products and Services Marketed in the Philippines in the 1920’s and 1930’s (Part one of two-the 1920’s)
Posted January 16, 2021
Old Manila: The Plaza Lunch Plaza Goite, Escolta – ( Fred Harden Proprietor)
Posted October 3, 2020
Voyage to Adventure in the Philippines (1935)
Posted June 13, 2020
Philippine Inter-Island Travel Via Luxury Ships (1930’s)
Posted January 16, 2020
The Military: WW2- The Defense of the Philippines – Top Military Commanders 1941/1942
Posted October 5, 2019
Corregidor: The Bilibid Guard Battalion
Posted July 9, 2019
Life on the Rock- Corregidor Island Fortress Pre WWII
Posted April 7, 2019
A Trip to Baguio and Banaue (1940)
Posted January 19, 2019
“Help Wanted”
Posted October 6, 2018
Zamboanga Town- U.S. Outpost in Mindanao Island (1920s – 1930s)
Posted July 9, 2018
Pre-WW2 Manila and American Military Sites – (A self-guided tour)
Posted April 14, 2018
Manila and Principal Colonial Cities of Asia before WW2
Posted January 7, 2018
“Baguio the Summer Resort and Beauty Spot of the Philippines” (1927)
Posted October 1, 2017
The Manila Railroad (1920’s & 1930’s)
Posted July 2, 2017
Baguio 1930’s – America’s Hill Station in Asia The Pines Hotel and other Lodgings
Posted April 1, 2017
The Gold Mining Boom of the 1930’s
Posted January 16, 2017
Manila in the 1920’s and 1930’s, A City with Four Personalities (American/Spanish/Chinese/Filipino)
Posted January 16, 2017
Entertainment — Two Prominent Venues: The Santa Ana Cabaret and The Jai Alai Palace
Posted January 16, 2017
U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Fleet Based in Manila
Posted January 16, 2017
Air Travel in the 1930’s – The Iloilo-Negros Air Express Co. (INAEC)
Posted January 16, 2017
Japanese Forces attack Legaspi and Zamboanga
Posted January 16, 2017
The Road to Independence
Posted October 2, 2016
Cars, Radio and Talking Movies Come to Manila in the Roaring Twenties
Posted October 2, 2016
The Manila Hotel: “Nostalgia – The First 65 Years 1912-1977” By Historian Lewis Gleek
Posted October 2, 2016
The Army and Navy Club of Manila
Posted October 2, 2016
The Robert Dollar // American Mail Line and Canadian-Pacific Line serving the Philippines 1920’s/1930’s
Posted October 2, 2016
War comes to the Mountain Resort City of Baguio –A Reconstruction from the Diary of James J. Halsema (2002)
Posted October 2, 2016
The Philippines after WWI – Prominent American Businessmen in the Philippines 1910-1935
Posted July 3, 2016
The American Chamber of Commerce Moves into the New Heacock Building on the Escolta – October 1939
Posted July 3, 2016
Baguio as a Health Resort – 1920
Posted July 3, 2016
The Philippine Department- US Army and Fort William McKinley in Pre WWII Years – The Story of US Army Officer George Moore
Posted July 3, 2016
The Philippines First Commercial Air Line – PATCO (Philippine Aerial Taxi Company) “The Mile High Line” (1930”s)
Posted July 3, 2016
The Imperial Japanese Army takes charge of Manila, The War’s beginning December 1941-January 1942 (Headlines from the Manila Tribune)
Posted July 3, 2016
Governor Generals and High Commissioners 1900 – 1946
Posted April 2, 2016
Tom’s Dixie Kitchen and Tom’s Oriental Grill, Plaza Goite, The Escolta
Posted April 2, 2016
A Trip to Pagsanjan Falls (1920)
Posted April 2, 2016
American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay – The Quiet Years 1922–1940
Posted April 2, 2016
The Significance of the “Clipper Service” – Pan American Airways (1935)
Posted April 2, 2016
American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay
Posted April 2, 2016
American Round Tables in Manila
Posted January 13, 2016
Firewalkers in Our Garden by Joshena M. Ingersol Golden Years in the Philippines
Posted January 13, 2016
A Bachelors Life in Manila by Louis Gleek (1975)
Posted January 13, 2016
Letter of Captain George Steiger, US Army (1941)
Posted January 13, 2016
A Trip to Manila (by Stan Cohen-Wings to the Orient)
Posted January 13, 2016
Diary of Captain George Steiger US Army-POW by His Family (1940)
Posted January 13, 2016
Manila Fifty Five Years Ago by A.V.H Hardendorp (1975)
Posted October 11, 2015
Community Institutions – Club Life- Preserving American Identity
Posted October 11, 2015
Manila Shops
Posted October 11, 2015
The People / the Military: Apart from, but a Part of, the Community
Posted October 11, 2015
Clothes for your Oriental Adventure
Posted October 11, 2015
War in Pacific Skies – The Philippine Islands
Posted October 11, 2015
Through the Philippines – The Philippine Capital, Old and New
Posted August 14, 2015
Americans in the Philippines and Their Rights as Citizens in America’s Far Eastern Possessions
Posted August 14, 2015
American in the Philippines by One of Them
Posted August 14, 2015
Letter from “Betty”, Wife of the Captain of U.S. Destroyer Stewart DD 224
Posted August 14, 2015
Across the Pacific by China Clipper
Posted August 14, 2015
Bataan’s Own – The First Days of War
Posted August 14, 2015
The Philippines After WWI
Posted May 11, 2015
Daily Life
Posted May 11, 2015
Entertainment
Posted May 11, 2015
The Military
Posted May 11, 2015
Travel (Getting Home and Back)
Posted May 11, 2015
End of an Era (WW2)
Posted May 11, 2015