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The South Pacific air ferry route was initially established in the 1920s to ferry United States Army Air Service aircraft to the Philippines. As the Japanese threat in the Far East increased in 1940, General Douglas MacArthur planned that in the event of war, the United States Army Air Corps would play a major role in defending the Philippines.
The Manila galleon (Spanish: Galeón de Manila; Filipino: Galyon ng Maynila), originally known as La Nao de China, [1] and Galeón de Acapulco, [2] refers to the Spanish trading ships that linked the Spanish Crown's Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, with its Asian territories, collectively known as the Spanish East Indies, across the Pacific Ocean.
The history of Filipino Americans begins in the 16th century when Filipinos first arrived in what is now the United States. The first Filipinos came to what is now the United States due to the Philippines being part of New Spain. Until the 19th century, the Philippines continued to be geographically isolated from the rest of New Spain in the ...
Philippine Standard Time (PST [1] [2] or PhST; [3] [4] Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), [citation needed] is the official name for the time zone used in the Philippines.
The Consulate General of the Philippines in San Francisco is a foreign mission of the Republic of the Philippines in the United States, representing the country's interests in northern California, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, and Alaska. It is located at the Philippine Center at 447 Sutter Street in Downtown San Francisco, just ...
During this time, the United States was heavily involved in the Philippines, with the Philippine–American War (1899-1902) and the American colonization of the Philippines (1898-1946). Typically, manong were recruited from the Philippines to perform low-wage agricultural work in California, Hawaii, and Alaska.
The Consulate General of the Philippines in Los Angeles is a diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines in the United States, representing the country's interests in southern California. It is located on the fifth floor of the Equitable Life Building at 3435 Wilshire Boulevard in the Koreatown neighborhood of central Los Angeles, a ...
As a consequence of the conquest of the Philippines, in 1565 the Manila galleon trade began, sailing from Acapulco – initially to Cebu, and after 1571 to Manila. These ships were crewed largely by Filipinos. The Filipinos who sailed experienced arduous conditions, poor rations, disease, and the lowest pay among the crew.