MESSAGE

Bataan Legacy Historical Society (BLHS) was originally conceived in

2012 to address the lack of information on the Filipino defenders of Ba-

taan during World War II in the Philippines. Since then, its mission has

evolved to instilling civic pride and engagement in young adults through

the lessons of WWII in the Philippines from the perspectives of Filipino

and American military and civilians. It worked successfully with the

California Department of Education to include WWII in the Philippines

in the Grade 11 U.S. history curriculum framework in California, the first

time that this seminal part of WWII is mandated in high schools in the

U.S. BLHS worked with high school teachers to create lesson plans in

accordance with California’s Common Core Standards and these are

available for free through its website including primary documents.

Since 2012 BLHS has organized the commemoration of the Bataan Death

March in the Bay Area and with each passing year, the event has grown

considerably in collaboration with many organizations. Since 2015 it has

organized the Conference on WWII in the Philippines and for 2019, the

theme is The Liberation of the Philippines—The Steep Price of

Freedom in keeping with the 75th Anniversary of the Leyte Landing and

the Battle of Leyte Gulf, two seminal events that are included in Chapter

16 of the Grade 11 U.S. History Curriculum Framework.

Please help Bataan Legacy Historical Society to continue its work to

teach the lessons of war to younger generations so that they can appreci-

ate the steep price of freedom and become responsible leaders of tomor-

row.

Thank you to our esteemed guests and speakers and our deepest grati-

tude to all of our sponsors, supporters and volunteers for their continued

commitment to this legacy.

Cecilia I. Gaerlan Consuelo Hall McHugh

Bataan Legacy Historical Society Memorare Manila 1945 Maj. Gen. Eldon Regua, USA (Ret.) James Zarsadiaz Chair, 2019 Conference Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program University of San Francisco

PROGRAM

9:30 Door Opens, Registration, etc.

10:00 Welcome by James Zarsadiaz, Director, Philippine Studies Program

10:05 Presentation of Colors by San Francisco Unified School District

JROTC Cadets from San Francisco Unified School District

10:10 National Anthems of the Philippines & the U.S. by TBC of USF

Kasamahan

10:15 Invocation by Father Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., President, University

of San Francisco

10:20 Maj. Gen. Eldon Regua, USA (Ret.), Chair of 2019 Conference &

Emcee

10:25 Welcome by Philippine Consul General Henry Bensurto, Jr.

10:30 Keynote Speech by Admiral William Fallon, USN (Ret.), Chair,

Naval Historical Foundation

10:40 Role of Filipino & American Guerrillas before and during the

Liberation

Prof. Bernard Karganilla, University of the Philippines

11:10 Richard Foye, Foye (USS Enterprise) and the Filipino Guerrillas

11:40 Q&A

11:50 Break

11:55 Leyte Landing

Walter Borneman, MacArthur at War, The Admirals

12:25 Q&A

12:30 Lunch Break - Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, USA (Ret.), Filipino

Veterans & Recognition Project

1:30 Battle of Leyte Gulf

Prof. Jose Custodio, The Battle of Surigao Strait

2:00 James Hornfischer, Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

2:30 Q&A

2:40 Break

2:45 Zonification & War Crimes

Prof. Mark Hull, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, Ft.

Leavenworth

3:15 Cecilia Gaerlan, Bataan Legacy Historical Society

3:45 Q & A, Discussion with Panelists

4:15 Thank You, End of Conference, Book Signing

SPEAKERS

James Zarsadiaz is Assistant Professor of History and serves as Director of the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. His research and teaching in-terests include urban and suburban studies, California and the U.S. West, Asian American history, and the twentieth-century United States. He re-ceived his PhD and MA in History from Northwestern University and his BA in American Studies and Political Science from George Washington University. James was a Fellow at both the Smithsonian Institution's Na-tional Museum of American History and Asian Pacific American Center. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J. (Invocation ) was elected in 2014 as the 28th Presi-dent of the University of San Francisco. He received his B.A. in History from Santa Clara University in 1980 and two years later, entered the Socie-ty of Jesus. He subsequently earned a Masters in Divinity and a Pontifical Licentiate at Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, a Doctor of Let-ters in Sociology of Religion from the Sorbonne and a Pontifical Doctorate from the Institut Catholique de Paris. Prior to USF, he served as Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at Fair-field University and as Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Santa Clara University. Major General Eldon P. Regua, USA (Ret.) served in the United States Army for over 36 years with his last assignment as Deputy Commanding General/Chief of Staff for the 8th U.S. Army headquartered in Yongsan, Korea. His assignments included tours in Germany and South Korea along with numerous visits to Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006-2010. He com-manded two Army Reserve Training Divisions and was recognized for nu-merous unit and individual awards. He served on the Secretary of the Army’s Reserve Forces Policy Committee in the Pentagon. He served on the Board of Advisors for NextStep Services and the city of Campbell Vet-eran’s Memorial Foundation. He is currently a member of the California Governor's Military Council. Henry S. Bensurto Jr. assumed his post as the Philippine Consul General to San Francisco in June 2014. Consul General Bensurto is a career diplo-mat and a respected member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), and was part of the Philippine team that won the arbitration case against China on the West Philippine Sea, at the International Tribunal in the Hague. Immediately prior to his current post, he served as the Assistant Secretary of the West Philippine Sea Center (WPSC) in the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Secretary-General of the Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs Secretariat (CMOAS). He has degrees in Political Science as well as in Law from the Philippines and pursued further studies at Oxford University.

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Admiral William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.) retired from the U.S. Navy in 2008 after a distinguished 40-year career of military and strategic leader-ship. He has led U.S. and Allied forces in eight separate commands and played a leadership role in military and diplomatic matters. He received his first star in 1992 as Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans and Policy for Su-preme Allied Commander, Atlantic at NATO. A year later, he became Commander of Carrier Group Eight and commanded Battle Force Sixth Fleet during Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia. He became Deputy Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, confirmed as a Vice Admiral and assigned as Deputy Commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command. From November 1997 to September 2000, he served as Commander of the U.S. Second Fleet and Commander, Striking Fleet Atlantic. In 2000, he began his four-star assignment as Vice Chief of Naval Operations. He personally directed the recovery of the Navy staff in the wake of the 9/11 attack and led in the plan-ning of the retaliatory attacks on Al Qaeda and Taliban forces. In 2003 he took command of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and U.S. Fleet Forces Command. He began a two-year tour in 2005 as Commander, U.S. Pacific Command and in his final active duty assignment, he was confirmed as Commander, U.S. Central Command before stepping down in March 2008. He current-ly serves as the 6th Chairman of the Naval Historical Foundation and serves on the board of various universities, organizations and corporations. Bernard Karganilla holds the University of the Philippines’ Professorial Chair Award in the Social Sciences for Outstanding Teaching and Re-search. He is the former Chair of the University of the Philippines (Manila) Social Sciences Department and also serves as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Management. He is the Chairman of Kaisahan para sa Kamalayan sa Kasaysayan, Inc. (Synergy for Historical Conscience) and also serves as a Board Member and Spokesman for the Philippine Council of Management. He is a columnist for Malaya Business Insight. He is a founding officer of the Hunters ROTC Historical Society and currently serves as its Corporate Secretary. He has written several books on Philip-pine history including the Japanese occupation and presented many papers about WWII in the Philippines in international conferences. He was in-spired by his father, a member of the Hunters-ROTC Guerrillas. Richard Foye spent his career in education much like the subject of his book, Foye and the Filipinos, the story of his father Ensign William Foye during WWII in the Philippines. Ensign Foye was an F6F Hellcat Pilot and a member of the Air Group Twenty assigned to the USS Enterprise, CV 6 when his plane was shot down on Oct. 18, 1944. Rich only learned about his father’s WWII experiences before his death and made a journey to the Philippines to search for the people who saved him. After an

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illustrious career of over 37 years in the education system as principal/headmaster/superintendent in several schools in Connecticut, Rich retired as interim Superintendent of Schools for the New London Public Schools in Connecticut. He continues to serve as President of the Bulkeley Scholarship Trustees in New London, CT.

Maj. General Antonio Taguba, USA (Ret.) (Lunchtime Speaker) re-tired in 2007 after having served in the U.S. Army for 37 years. His ser-vice tours include assignments in the United States, South Korea, Ger-many and Kuwait. He served as Chief-of-Staff of the Army Reserved Command, as Assistant Division Commander of the 24th Infantry Divi-sion and as Commanding General, U.S. Army Community and Family Support Command. He became Acting Director of the Army Staff, Head-quarters, Pentagon. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was assigned as Deputy Commanding General for Support, Coalition Forces Land Com-ponent Command of ARCENT/3rd U.S. Army deployed in Kuwait over-seeing logistical and support services for U.S. and Coalition Forces. Up-on his redeployment, he was assigned as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs For his final assignment he served as Deputy Commanding General for Transformation, U.S. Army Reserve Command. He currently serves as Chairman of the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project which worked successfully for the Congressional Gold Medal for WWII Filipino veterans. He is also Chairman of the Pan Pacific American Leaders and Mentors and serves as a spokesperson for AARP. Walter R. Borneman is an American historian and lawyer. He is the prolific author of several books on American history from the saga of a fledgling nation to World War II in the Pacific. His books include Alaska – the Saga of a Bold Land, 1812 – The War that Forged a Nation, The French and Indian War – Deciding the Fate of North America, Polk – The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America, Iron Horses – America’s Race to Bring the Railroads West, The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King – the 5-star Admirals who Won the Wat at Sea which won the 2013 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, American Spring – Lexington, Concord and the Road to Revolution, MacArthur at War – WWII in the Pacific and his latest book Brothers Down – Pearl Harbor and the Fate of Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona.

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Jose Antonio Custodio is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy, Strategy and Development Studies Inc., and has been an active writer on defense and security issues since 2013. He has held various consultancy positions in the Philippine national government He also has served as a consultant on Philippine security and military issues such as coups, de-stabilization, the Chinese threat, alliances, among other issues, in the past decades. He also has lectured in local and international forums on such issues. He has served as Consultant for the Office of the Vice-President of the Philippines since March 2019. James Hornfischer is one of the most commanding naval historians writing today. His books have been selected by the Chief of Naval Oper-ations Professional Reading Program and the U.S. Naval War College. His books include The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers about the Battle off Samar, which won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, Ship of Ghosts, - The Story of the USS Houston, FDR’s Legendary Lost Cruiser and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors, Neptune’s Inferno – The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, Service: A Navy Seal at War written with Marcus Lut-trell and The Fleet at Flood Tide – America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-1945. He serves on the Board of the Naval Historical Foundation. Aside from being a prolific writer, he is also a literary agent and a lawyer. Mark Hull is a full professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS, where he teaches both military and international criminal law, and history. He earned his doctorate from University College Cork in Ireland, and Juris Doctorate from the Cumberland School of Law. Prior to teaching at CGSC, Dr. Hull worked as a criminal prosecutor and served as a military intelligence officer to the U.S. His books include Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ire-land and Masquerade: Treason, Holocaust Denial, and an Irish Imposter (University of Oklahoma Press 2017). He has published on topics ranging from prosecuting war crimes to military intelligence. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is currently in the Doctor of Law program at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen/Nürnberg, Germany to study the topic of Speech as Genocide. Cecilia Gaerlan is the Founder and Executive Director of Bataan Legacy Historical Society (BLHS). BLHS worked successfully with the Califor-nia Department of Education to include WWII in the Philippines in the Grade 11 U.S. history curriculum framework. She was inspired by her father, Luis Gaerlan, Jr., a veteran of WWII in the Philippines and a survivor of the Bataan Death March.

OUR PROUD SPONSORS

AMBASSADOR & MRS. HOWARD LEACH

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE 40TH TANK BATTALION OF

SALINAS, CA (COMPANY C, 194TH TANK BATTALION)

& JOSEPH R. MCMICKING, PHILIPPINE ARMY AIR CORPS &

USAFFE/GHQ SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA

CONSUELO HALL MCHUGH & FAMILY

IN MEMORY OF THE 100,000 CIVILIANS KILLED DURING

THE BATTLE OF MANILA, FEBRUARY 2 TO MARCH 4, 1945

JOSEPH & MERCEDES MCMICKING FOUNDATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bataan Legacy Historical Society Board, Volunteers, Members & Supporters

Handlery Hotel

Marines Memorial Club

San Francisco Unified School District JROTC & NROTC Programs

University of San Francisco Media Services

USF KASAMAHAN Volunteers

Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program, University of San Francisco