Post of Manila

The Post of Manila was a US Army post, in Manila, (Luzon, the Philippines), at which several U.S. Army units were stationed. On 7 December 1941, these were

  • the Philippine Division's 31st Infantry Regiment
  • 288th Signal Company (Operations)
  • 808th MP Company

See also:

  • Geography of the Philippines
  • Military History of the Philippines
  • Military History of the United States

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    A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.”
    William Harmon (b. 1938)