Luis Cardona Bosque Training at Camp Beale

A photograph of Luis Cardona Bosque (left) and an unknown man (right) training at Camp Beale. Luis served in the First Filipino Regiment.

unknown

c. 1942

Sharon Bosque-Wiebe Hoffmann

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For more information on Camp Beale and the First Filipino Regiment:

US Army Corps of Engineers, “Former Camp Beale: MRS03, Southwest Combined Area Use.” https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/military/FUDS/Camp%20Beale/Draft_Posters_CampBeale_J09CA013605_Nov2015_reduced.pdf

Izon, Noel M. An Untold Triumph: The Story of the 1st & 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments, U.S. Army. San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media, 2005.

Moore, Colin. “Soldiers of a Forgotten Empire: American Memory and the Battle for Filipino Veterans’ Benefits.” War & Society 42, no4 (2023): 366–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2023.2245256.

8.5x5.5 inches

Still Image

HOF.2021.12

Photograph