Upcoming Trips

APRIL 2012 P.I. WWII HISTORY TOUR

70^TH ANNIVERSARY OF BATAAN (DAY OF VALOR)

APRIL 7 TO 15, 2012    10 DAYS-9 NIGHTS PACKAGE

 HOST:  Edna Binkowski, author of CODE NAME HIGH POCKETS (story of Claire Phillips, a spy, and the resistance during WWII in P.I.) to narrate the outbreak of war, the bombing of various airfields in the islands,  the battle for Bataan, the surrender,  life of the captives, the resistance and underground,  life under Japanese occupation, and Gen. Krueger’s 6^th Army (liberation period).

ROUTE: Manila-Bataan-Subic-Clark/Capas-Cabanatuan- Corregidor-Manila

                                    ITINERARY

APRIL 7 SAT             Arrive Manila International Airport (NAIA)

                                    Airport transfer in

                                    Accomodation:  Bayview Park Hotel

APRIL 8 SUN                        MANILA – CLARK - BATAAN

                                    Learn about the 10-year espionage by the Japanese into the P.I.

                                    Learn about the outbreak of war, details about the Dec. 8 bombing

                                    Stop at former battle site: initial line of defense

                                    Listen to the accounts of our Veterans on board

                                    Watch the Bataan Parade at Capitol Ground

                                    Accomodation:  Crown Royale or GAP Plaza Hotel

APRIL 9 MON           BATAAN - SUBIC

                                    Observe the 70^th Anniversary of Bataan’s Day of Valor

                                    Stop  Zero Kilometer Bagac start of death march

                                    Learn about the Battle on Bataan

                                    Hotel:  Bayfront Hotel or Vista Marina in Subic

                                    Enjoy live music at the waterfront or try your luck at the casino

APRIL 10 TUE          SUBIC-BATAAN-SUBIC

                                    Depart for Mariveles, south of Bataan

                                    Stop at the hell ship memorial

                                    Learn about the Hospital 1 and 2 (Jungle Hospital)

                                    Visit the former battle sites memorials and markers

                                    Stop at Zero Kilometer in Mariveles, start of death march

                                    Return to Subic

APRIL 11 WED         SUBIC – CAPAS -CABANATUAN

                                    Stop at the train stations

                                    Learn about the miserable life of the captives in that HELL HOLE

                                    See one of the box cars that were used to haul the POWs

                                    Learn about the start of the UNDERGROUND movement that

                                    smuggled aid to the sickly POWs

                                    Proceed to Cabanatuan

                                              Accomodation at La Parilla Hotel

APRIL 12 THU          CABANATUAN - MANILA

Depart for Cabanatuan Memorial, former POW camp

Learn about the daring rescue mission staged by the 6^th Ranger

            Battalion headed by Capt. Robert Prince, and the Filipino

            Guerilla leaders

Learn about the liberation period

While on board watch the film “I Was An American Spy” by

            Claire Phillips

Stop at the American Cemetery for wreath laying

Accomodation at Bayview Park Hotel

APRIL 13 FRI                        MANILA

                                    Half day city tour:  former Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila

                                                Hotel, Old Manila downtown, Intramuros, Fort Santiago,

                                                Makati City

                                    Accommodation Bayview Park Hotel

                                    Cultural Dinner Show

APRIL 14 SAT           CORREGIDOR OVERNIGHT TOUR

APRIL 15 SUN          CORREGIDOR - MANILA

                                    Accomodation at Bayview Park Hotel

APRIL 16 MON         Take your onward flight

LAND ARRANGEMENT COST: 

Full tour April 7 to 16 (9 nights)    single  $1,148.50     double    $914.50 per person

APRIL 7 TO 13  (7 nights)             single $945.00         double    $750.00 per person

Cost includes:  airport transfer in, hotel accommodations, daily hotel breakfast, 4 lunches, 4 dinners, tourist bus, drinks on board, and entrance fees.

For more information, contact Edna Binkowski at  hipockets.edna@yahoo.com

To know about the abandoned markers/memorials that were rehabilitated because of Edna Binkowski’s P.I. WWII History Tour, browse at:

                  http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/

Past Mukden Trips 

2007

This pictures shows participants of the 2007 trip at the Three Friends Workshop in Shenyang, China.  The 3 friends the workshop gets its name from are men who worked as slaves at the Mitsubishi plant during W.W. II (alongside the POWs), they now manage this workshop that supports crafts from pottery to computer graphics.  Nine of the men seated in the first row are former POWs of Mukden camp and one is one of the men who parachuted into the camp at the end of the war to help liberate the camp.  Part of a model of the camp is in the front left corner.

Visa application for travel to China:  http://www.visarite.com/China_Visa_Form.htm

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