They were among the more than 250,000 able-bodied and patriotic Filipinos who heeded the call to get commissioned or enlisted in the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (Usaffe) under the ...

On November 5, 1942, members of the US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) inadvertently killed a Japanese soldier when they entered the foreign force’s garrison to steal some firearms. ... The ...

The Philippines were defended then by some 3,000 U.S. soldiers, a handful of mobile 155-mm. howitzers, some old 755, about 100 first-line planes and some old craft which, said the pilots ...

Eighty-two years ago, on April 9, 1942, approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) were forced to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army after ...

This is the Voice of Freedom broadcasting to you from somewhere in the Philippines. “Bataan has fallen. The Philippine-American troops on this war-ravaged and blood-stained peninsula have laid down ...

A diorama outside the Bataan World War II Museum in Balanga, Philippines, depicts the surrender of US forces to Japanese commanders on April 9, 1942. Brad Lendon/CNN. ... (USAFFE). Two weeks after ...

A diorama outside the Bataan World War II Museum in Balanga, Philippines, depicts the surrender of US forces to Japanese commanders on April 9, 1942. Brad Lendon/CNN. ... (USAFFE). Two weeks after ...

Her grandfather’s tombstone in the Philippines had letters on it that Jimiliz Valiente-Neighbours didn’t initially understand. It turns out that “USAFFE” stood for the United States Army ...

MANILA, Philippines — Almost eight decades after the end of World War II, 41 more Filipino veterans received the US Congressional Gold Medal (CGM) in rites held at Camp Aguinaldo on Friday. The ...