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	USAFFE - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		USAFFE (United States Army Forces - Far East) included the Philippine Department, Philippine Army (2 regular and 10 reserve divisions), and the Far East Air Force (formerly, Philippine Army Air Corps).
		USAFFE Headquarters was created on July 26, 1941, at No.1, Calle Victoria, Manila, Luzon, the Philippines, with Major General MacArthur as commander.
		At the same time, MacArthur was recalled to active duty as the USAFFE commander, from his position as military advisor to, and Field Marshall of, the Philippine Army.
	open-encyclopedia.com /USAFFE (685 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Bataan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From January 1-5, 1942, as the entire USAFFE converged from south and north, delaying actions were fought to allow the struggling withdrawal to Bataan.
		On March 12, General MacArthur, his family, and several USAFFE staff officers left Corregidor on four PT boats for Mindanao, and were eventually flown to Australia where he broadcast to the Filipino people his famous "I Shall Return" promise.
		MacArthur's departure marked the end of the USAFFE and by March 22, the defending army was renamed United States Forces in the Philippines (USFIP) and Lt. Gen.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Bataan (4206 words)

	Manila: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Manila
		The headquarters for USAFFE were located here as were the 31st Infantry Regiment and the 808th Military Police Company[?].
		The headquarters and bulk of the Philippine Division was located just to the south, at Fort William McKinley.
		The headquarters for the USAFFE Air Force was on the outskirts of town, at Nielson Field.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Manila.html (360 words)

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		Tank Headquarters learned subsequently that "the alert had been called off." The Tankers were eating in the vicinity of their tanks, at 1230 when a handsome V formation of 53 planes appeared from the north at between 20 and 23 thousand feet; and almost as soon as discerned began bombing Clark Field.
		USAFFE, that battalion (less one company) was ordered to the Lingayen area by daylight for supporting moves as might be directed by the battalion commander after his contact with the commanding general North Luzon Force.
		Group Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, without a mess or any of the supplies or equipment available to the permanent garrison (However lately organized, they came from fixed installations and were familiar with local resources)--were unwelcome pensioners with whatever unit in contact or associated.
	www.memorialmuseum.org /TankGrp.htm (12428 words)

	Chapter XXII: The Southwest Pacific Area
		USAFFE's remaining 198 enlisted women were assigned to various headquarters offices, including 55 to the adjutant general, and from one to ten each to G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4, the chaplain, inspector general, headquarters commandant, judge advocate, provost marshal, special services, information and education, and finance.
		As a result, a headquarters in the urgent days of preparing for movement was faced with the necessity for retraining chauffeurs and other workers as clerks and typists-a problem which occasionally left the impression that untrained Wacs had been shipped.
		Colonel Baird of USAFFE likewise indicated that the decision was a military necessity.
	www.army.mil /CMH-pg/books/wwii/Wac/ch22.htm (14771 words)

	Philippine Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This unit was formally organized in 1913 and, on July 26, 1941, was attached to US Army Forces - Far East (USAFFE).
		Following the creation of USAFFE, the Philippine Department became, in effect, a corps area service command.
		At the time of USAFFE's formation the unit consisted of 22,532 troops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippine_Department (372 words)

	Rearguard on Bataan photos and text related to The Edge by First Lieutenant George Francis, USMC, Retired
		The rapid advance of the Japanese southward from Lingayen Gulf led the USAFFE commander to abandon Manila and to declare it an open city.
		The USAFFE Headquarters moved inland on 27 January, reportedly because of proximity to the offensive being conducted in the vicinity of Pucot Hill and Longoskawayan Point.
		Marines in the detachment with bolos cut a perimeter path from the jungle around the headquarters at approximately 500 yards from the outermost structure.
	www.fourthmarinesband.com /guard.htm (1897 words)

	The Southwest Pacific Area
		The other was the absence of a surgeon at the headquarters of the command with theaterwide responsibilities (the reestablished U.S. Army Forces in the Far East) from September 1943 to January 1944, as the result of a shift of all the theater chiefs of services to Services of Supply headquarters.
		The headquarters of the Australian base sections contained at the peak of their development in 1943 about 10 or 12 Medical Department officers each, including a dental officer, a veterinary officer, a venereal disease control officer, and a chief nurse.
		After General Headquarters had moved to Hollandia in 1944 and was poised to go on to Leyte, it became difficult for the committee to hold effective meetings, since some of its members had primary duties with headquarters of commands located elsewhere.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/orgadmin/org_admin_wwii_chpt10.htm (17411 words)

	TITLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		HQ USAFFE was reduced to a nominal staff and General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) was established; both were commanded by General MacArthur.
		Headquarters, USAFFE was expanded to assume administrative functions for all U.S. Army forces in the Southwest Pacific.
		The new headquarters in Japan was assigned responsibility for phasedown of Army operations in Japan.
	www.usarj.army.mil /history/army_usarj.htm (537 words)

	THE GALLANT YEARS OF WORLD WAR II
		Among the units of the Division, the 43d Infantry was the last to be organized and had to be left behind in Tagaytay to continue training and organization while the 41st Division was deployed to the shorelines of Batangas at the outbreak of hostilities.
		USAFFE activated the Bataan Defense Force under Major General Parker to prepare the ground for the withdrawing force.
		USAFFE Headquarters sent an advance echelon under Brig Gen. Richard Marshall to supervise the defense preparations and the occupation of Bataan by the withdrawing forces.
	www.geocities.com /afpmuseum/history/history_chapter03.htm (16775 words)

	Truman Library - Col. Laurence H. Bunker Oral History Interview
		That service started within six months after the Headquarters transferred to Tokyo for the Occupation, and then I returned to the States with General MacArthur when he was recalled in '51, and stayed with him in New York for a year and a half, until the time of the election in 1952.
		The first year I was not in the top headquarters, the General Headquarters, but I was in the Headquarters of the U.S. Army forces in Australia, and in the office of the General Purchasing Agent.
		When we first went into the USAFFE Headquarters and he made me secretary to the General Staff that put me right outside his office together with the Adjutant General of the headquarters to handle all sorts of things.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/bunker.htm (4933 words)

	USAFFE Headquarters
		USAFFE Headquarters was the command element for US Army Forces - Far East (USAFFE), during World War II, under General Douglas MacArthur.
		USAFFE Headquarters was located at No.1, Calle Victoria, Manila, Luzon, the Philippines.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USAFFE_Headquarters.html (99 words)

	Encyclopedia: Philippine Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Corps Area is a term used, by the US Army, as a replacement for Department, the name given to pre-World War I military commands.
		Fort William McKinley, during the World War II era, was where USAFFE had its headquarters for the Philippine Department and the Philippine Division.
		History of the 43rd Infantry Regiment The 43rd Infantry Regiment was formed in June of 1917, at Fort Douglas, Utah.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Philippine-Department (1620 words)

	Sources3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Admiral Hart states that Colonel Clement, unable to "get response from USAFFE Headquarters," passed the news "to one of the staff duty officers at his home." Ltr, Hart to Maj Gen Orlando Ward, 19 Dec 51, OCMH.
		It is evident from internal evidence that the diary for this period was put in its present form at a later date and cannot therefore be considered always a contemporaneous record.
		Walter D. Edmonds, who was commissioned by the air force to write the account of air operations in the Philippines, interviewed General Sutherland in Manila in June 1945, as well as a large number of air force officers.
	c.1asphost.com /scanhead25/sources3.htm (2209 words)

	Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
		This area was directly under the control of MacArthur's headquarters and contained the Philippine Division (less one battalion), the 71st and 91st Divisions (PA), the 86th Field Artillery (PS), the Far East Air Force, and the headquarters of the Philippine Department and the Philippine Army.
		Richard K. Sutherland announced the decision and stated that the headquarters was to be moved to Corregidor that evening.
		Brereton closed his headquarters in Manila at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th and left that evening in a PBY to join his bombers at Batchelor Field near Darwin.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_06.htm (8043 words)

	Malinta
		The headquarters was bare, glaringly lighted, and contained only the essential furniture and equipment for administrative procedures.
		The USAFFE Headquarters was situated in Lateral No. 3, which was bare except for a row of desks and a minimum of office equipment.
		Pieces of cardboard had to be placed over documents lying on desks to keep off the seepage that occasionally dripped through the rock ceilings.
	corregidor.org /chs_battery1/malinta1.htm (1028 words)

	Wainwright Papers - The Moore Report - Part C
		Word was received that General MacArthur and family with USAFFE Headquarters, U.S. High Commissioner Sayre with his family and staff, and President Quezon with family and staff, would arrive on Corregidor that night.
		It was assigned by USAFFE to the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays and the regiment was given the mission of manning the beach defenses of Corregidor.
		After a few days at II Corps Headquarters, Colonel Boudreau rejoined the Harbor Defense and was assigned to command Fort Frank which position he held until the surrender.
	corregidor.org /chs_moorerpt/moore3.htm (11861 words)

	TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PACIFIC
		In February 1943, when USAFFE was activated, a Chemical Warfare Section was set up in that Headquarters with an Intelligence officer detailed to formulate plans for more comprehensive Intelligence organization.
		The Company Headquarters conducted administration of the Company and coordination of the activities of the several sections.
		On 19 February 1944, a directive was received by Headquarters, USASOS, from the Commanding General, USAFFEE, to the effect that photographs, prints, rubbings and drawings of all nameplates or nameplate data from all captured enemy equipment would be forwarded to that Headquarters.
	www.wlhoward.com /id575.htm (3654 words)

	Fourth Marine Regiment - China Marines
		Headquarters det. composed the first detail and it was up to us to help load the gear on barges and we had bad moments with the French Freighter still blazing in the harbor, a result of a Japanese bombing visit on the 26th and a reminder that the war was still on.
		That afternoon we met a soldier who was eventually responsible for getting Dave and I a good berth in Usaffe Headquarters Radio Station in Corregidor’s biggest bomb-proof, Malinta Tunnel.
		Akin requested our transfer to the Usaffe Radio Station (Dave and me) so now we were hard at work setting up communication in No. 12 Lateral.
	www.chinamarines.com /docs/rodenburg3.htm (2792 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Fall of the Philippines [Chapter 7]
		USAFFE placed enough reliability on the report to order the Philippine Division there to meet and destroy the enemy.
		Fort Santiago, headquarters of the Philippine Department, was on the edge of this area, as was the mouth of the Pasig River, now jammed with inter-island freighters and other craft.
		General MacArthur optimistically reported that the Philippine people had withstood the shock of war "with composure," and that there were "no signs of confusion or hysteria."[31] The Japanese moves were correctly analyzed but a counteroffensive was not launched to drives off the invaders.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/USA-P-PI-7.html (3999 words)

	HyperWar: History of USMC Operations in WWII, Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Part IV [Chapter 1]
		At USAFFE headquarters, amidst the bustle attendant on its move to Corregidor, Howard got a cordial welcome from his new chief and then received orders to move the 4th to Corregidor and take over its beach defenses.
		The headquarters of MacArthur, Rockwell, and Major General George F. Moore, commanding the fortified islands, were all eventually located in the tunnels and laterals that spread out beneath the hill.
		Almost all of the barracks and headquarters buildings and a good half of the wooden structures on the island were battered, set afire, or destroyed.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USMC/I/USMC-I-IV-1.html (8925 words)

	Wainwright Papers - The Moore Report - Part A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A number of guns of both calibers were on hand, extensive surveys had been made by PCAC Staff Officers, and construction on some batteries had started prior to the outbreak of hostilities.
		The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays consisted of four fortified islands (Corregidor, Caballo, El Fraile, and Carabao) at the entrance of Manila Bay and one fortified Island (Grande) at the entrance of Subic Bay.
		Headquarters of the Harbor Defenses was located at Fort Mills on Corregidor.
	corregidor.org /chs_moorerpt/moore1.htm (1764 words)

	Wikipedia:Reference Desk archive 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		What was the relationship between the Far East Air Force, USAFFE, and the Philippine Army Air Corps?
		Likewise, what was the relationship between the Philippine Department and USAFFE Headquarters.
		Was the Offshore Patrol part of USAFFE or not?
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_Desk_archive_3 (1310 words)

	Major Campaigns in World War 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Meanwhile, on the night of 24-25 December, MacArthur had moved his USAFFE headquarters and the Philippine government to Corregidor.
		At this point the awful consequences of the shifts in USAFFE defense plans became clear.
		To support MacArthur's plan for a defense of the entire island chain, supplies had been dispersed from their original depots in Bataan and Corregidor to support the units of the North and South Luzon Forces.
	www.world-war-2-history.com /campaigns-page/30/6 (657 words)

	Malinta Tunnel
		MacArthur set up the headquarters of USAFFE inside the tunnel where men and women would live and work during the siege of Corregidor.
		The third lateral on the North side from the East entrance served as the USAFFE Headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur.
		In the South side, the first lateral from the East entrance was designated as headquarters of the Harbor Defense Command under Maj.
	corregidorisland.com /malinta.html (1246 words)

	Squadron History - February 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron was reorganized, effective 5 February 1945, without change in station or assignment.
		The authority for this reorganization is to be found in the 1st Ind. Headquarters USAFFE 22 January 1945 on War Department Letter, AG 322 (21 Dec 44) OB-AFB-GM, 2 January 1945, Subj.
		The Squadron was reorganized in accordance with revised TO/E
	www.pbyrescue.com /History/feb_1945.htm (450 words)

	Chapter XIV: The End of an Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Apparently MacArthur made no attempt to notify the Japanese forces in the Philippines of his intentions, but a mimeographed announcement of the open city declaration was in the hands of the Japanese troops by 31 December.
		Since Manila was used as a base of supplies, and since a U.S. Army headquarters was based in the city and troops passed through it after 26 December, it is difficult to see how Manila could be considered an open city between 26 and 31 December 1941.
		"By New Year's Eve the rear echelon of USAFFE headquarters under General Marshall had completed its work and was prepared to leave the "open city." The capital was subdued but ready to greet the New Year.
	www.ranger95.com /military_history/philippines/Chapter_XIV.html (4797 words)

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