What is "philippine"

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Following the Manila campaign, the regiment reorganized and re- equipped in Manila and, on 7 April 1945 received orders to move to Naguilian to join in the attack on Baguio, the Philippine summer capital and one of the remaining Japanese strong points on Luzon.

Philippine roads, columns of unshaven, ragged, bowed Americans march to captivity from Bataan under the guns of scowling yellow dwarfs.

The three flattop groups on hand were to space themselves along two hundred fifty miles of the eastern Philippine coast for air searches and strikes next morning, when the Jap battleships would be steaming within range.

Pacific Strategy Again WE LEFT THE PACIFIC WAR at the end of July 1944, with the Battle of the Philippine Sea won, Saipan, Tinian and Guam secured, and General MacArthur in control of Biak and the New Guinea Vogelkopf, poised to cross the Celebes Sea into Mindanao.

Trial records and documents from the Philippine National Police show that Nichols was in Cebu City at the same time as Yousef in December 1994 - staying in a section of the Visayas island group that was a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.

Despite this, carrier Chitose and one destroyer were sunk by a cluster of bomb hits, and big Zuikaku, veteran of Pearl Harbor, the Coral Sea and the Philippine Sea, took a torpedo which knocked out her communications and caused Ozawa to shift his flag to light cruiser Oyodo.

But, judging by the insane flaccid-ity, the pottering idleness with which, in the winter of 1923-4, the Filipinized Agricultural Department and the entirely preoccupied Legislature confronted a deadly hemp pest, the life of the Philippine hemp industry depends on its unaided star--and may at any moment flicker out for all time.

Puerto Galera, a resort across from Batangas on the southern Philippine island of Luzon.

Page one ran a story about the Philippine Igorots, who stood accused of kidnapping local dogs for their cooking pots.

Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians,when Russians fight with Chechens,when Indians fight with Kashmiri Muslims, and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Muslims in its southern islands.

Passing by the north of the Philippine Islands into the Pacific, she steered to the southward until she sighted the Pelew Islands, about eight degrees north of the equator.

I introduced the practical-joke aspect of psywar to the Philippine Army, it stimulated some imaginative operations that were remarkably effective.

As Calinan dropped behind, the country turned to tropical forest, with tall lauan and tanguile trees, the source of so-called Philippine mahogany.

Ameriean businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals who formed the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 and carried on a long campaign to educate the American public about the horrors of the Philippine war and the evils of imperialism.

Whereupon, Provincial Governor Carlos, with the local caciques, besieged the Philippine Legislature with imperative demands that the Rural Credit be kept out.