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unusual facts about Morong, Bataan


Philippine Refugee Processing Center

The Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) was a large facility near Morong, Bataan, Philippines, which was used as the final stop for Indochinese refugees making their way to permanent resettlement in other nations.


524th Special Operations Squadron

Bataan, Luzon, Philippines, 5 January 1942 (Air echelon operated from: Malang, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 18 February–c. 1 March 1942, Archerfield Airport 10–24 March 1942)

Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi

Together with nearly 250 Libyan recruits, he was sent to the Kamaya Point Training Center in Bataan, Philippines, but the program failed and they returned to Libya.

Alfredo M. Santos

Then Captain Santos was the most decorated Unit Commander of the 1st Regular Division in the memorable Bataan campaign, even dubbed by Commanding General, Brigadier General Fidel V. Segundo, as the "Hammer of the Division" when he brilliantly outmaneuvered and outsmarted the enemy during their attempt to pocket their area.

Bataan Memorial Death March

The Bataan Memorial Death March is an annual commemoration of the Bataan Death March attended by many of the survivors of the march, along with thousands of supporters from around the world, held at

Bino Realuyo

His next poetry collection, On which the Summer Leans will chronicle his father's experiences during World War II, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's recruitment of young Filipinos into the U.S. Army through the terrors of the Bataan Death March and Japanese Camps to the denial of their war-time benefits as a result of the approval by the U.S. Congress of the Rescission Act of 1946.

Geography of Manila

The Tondo Province annexed to this new district the towns of Cainta, Taytay, Antipolo and Boso-boso, while Laguna contributed the towns of Angono, Binangonan, Cardona, Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla and Jalajala.

Joe Bataan

As a vocalist, Bataan's fame in the Latin music scene at the time was only rivaled by Ralfi Pagan.

Mariveles

Mariveles Naval Section Base, Mariveles, Bataan, a US Navy base completed in 1941

Mark Cojuangco

As the main proponent of the Bill is Representative Mark Cojuangco's presentation at the Congressional hearing on February 2, 2009 came under scrutiny from the Bill's oppositors for citing Wikipedia articles about nuclear plants in other countries and quotes from non-experts like Patrick Moore, who left Greenpeace in 1986, to argue for the re-commissioning of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.

Missionaries of Mary

The Missionaries of Mary is a new community of apostolate established as a Public Association of the Faithful in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Balanga in Bataan, Philippines.

Morong River

It covers 14 barangays and stretches 10 kilometers from Antipolo City down to Teresa, Rizal, Morong, Rizal and finally to Laguna de Bay.

North Luzon West Expressway

The first leg of the expressway will begin in Hermosa in Bataan and from there it is called as "Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway" and was developed by the joint-venture of First Philippine Infrastructure Development Corporation, Tollways Management Corporation and Egis Projects.

Tipo, Hermosa, Bataan
North Luzon Expressway (R-8) in Clark Logistics Area, Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City

Passi, Iloilo

Passi was made the quartermaster depot of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for the food of the army that resisted in Bataan through Capiz.

Patrick J. Hurley

Hurley received a promotion to brigadier general in 1941 when the United States entered World War II, and General George C. Marshall dispatched him to the Far East as a personal representative to examine the feasibility of relieving American troops besieged on the island of Bataan.

Rizal

This consisted of the towns of Antipolo, Bosoboso, Cainta and Taytay from the Province of Tondo; and the towns of Morong, Baras, Tanay, Pililla, Angono, Binangonan and Jalajala from the Province of La Laguna, with the capital at Morong.

Antipolo, Taytay and Cainta serve as the economic centers of the province, while Angono, Rodriguez, Morong, San Mateo, Tanay, Binangonan and Teresa are taking successful steps to urbanize areas within their jurisdiction.

Saint John Academy

Saint John Academy is a Catholic school for secondary students situated in Rizal Street, Dinalupihan, Bataan, Philippines and is in the Diocese of Balanga.

Samuel L. Howard

In the early stages of World War II, General Howard commanded the 4th Marine Regiment on Bataan and Corregidor from December 7, 1941 to May 6, 1942.

Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report

It questioned standards at "diploma mills" and called for incentives to bring health professionals into poor communities, while criticizing the chilling effects of a "raid on a training session of health-care workers" as subversives in Morong, Rizal.

Sonneratia

The Sonneratia are called 'berembang' in Malaya, 'mangrove apple' in English, and 'Mangrovenapfel', "Pagatpat" in the Philippines, particularly in the Bataan and Pampanga region or 'Holzapfelmangrove' in German.

Steven Okazaki

Okazaki was also involved as a multi-instrumentalist in a San Francisco punk-rock music group called The Maids in 1977-1979, whose sole record, a single called 'Back to Bataan', gained some notoriety by way of later punk music compilations.

Subic–Tipo Expressway

The Subic–Tipo Expressway or the NLEx Segment 7 is a two-lane expressway approximately 8.8 kilometers in length whose alignment traverses the provinces of Zambales and Bataan.

Terowie, South Australia

Whilst transferring trains in Terowie on 20 March 1942, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur made his famous speech regarding the Battle of the Philippines in which he said: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

Texas to Bataan

Texas to Bataan is a 1942 American film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey featuring the Range Busters.

Tiburcio de León

"Heneral Tibo", as he was often referred to, is credited for having established units of the Katipunan in the towns of Polo, Obando, Marilao, Meycauayan, Bocaue, Santa Maria, and San Juan del Monte in Bulacan, and of Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas in Bataan.

Tomas Mateo Claudio

The Tomas Claudio Memorial College in Morong, Rizal, Philippines, which was founded in 1950, was named in his honor.

Wilhelm D. Styer

General Styer also chaired the tribunal that tried General Masaharu Homma (1887–1946), the Japanese conqueror of Bataan and Corregidor, for war crimes, and ordered Homma's execution.


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