A Filipino medical assistant bandages the injured arm of a woman in a PCAU clinic at San Rogue on Leyte Island, January 1945. Photo courtesy David Smollar America’s World War II return to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In the Philippines — where Spanish and later ...

From the many “Happy Independence Day” texts I received early yesterday morning, one stood out like a sore thumb with the question, “Is this our real Independence Day?” That question is something out ...

People participate in the Philippine Independence Day parade in New York on June 2. Independence Day in the Philippines is observed annually on June 12, commemorating the country’s independence from ...

In the Philippines — where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries — June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was the pivotal moment when the island ...