An article about the pivotal WWII Battle of Leyte Gulf between American and Australian naval forces against the Japanese fleet in the Philippines... (Read More)
When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last year, it destroyed everything in its path including the local civil registration offices containing the area birth, marriage and death records. According to a recent article in the Deseret News: “By the time the storm got to Tacloban, there was a storm surge behind it with 10-foot... (Read More)
“What have I done I asked myself, to deserve to be remembered by strangers in a town in which I had never been…” You can almost hear him ask that now, over 100 years later as we remember him. Corporal Wilson Mcpherson Osbon (1877-1899) wrote the letter on 28 Dec 1898, in... (Read More)