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On This Day in the Philippines: July 24
Action of July 24, 1945
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On this day one of the final naval battles took place in the Pacific when the Japanese naval forces armed their submarines with manned torpedoes called kaitens to attack and destroy as many US naval ships as possible. US Navy ships off Luzon clashed with the Japanese fleet. The Japanese naval forces successfully sunken USS Underhill in the battle with their kaitens.
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Kaiten (回天, literal translation: “Return to Heaven”, commonly rendered as “turn of the Heaven’s will”, “the heaven shaker”) were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.
Kaitens were successful in the second world war because there manned by japanese suicide pilots. Kaitens are the equivalent of kamikaze planes during the second world war.
Guillermo Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan
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Guillermo Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan in July 24, 1890 a national artist for visual arts of the Philippines and was known for his notable sculptures, among them are the Bonifacio Monument and the UP Oblation.
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Guillermo is the fourth child of seven siblings. He showed an early talent in sculpting and started molding horses, dogs and other model in clay.
He went to Malolos Intermediate School and continued his high school in the same City. He then studied Fine Arts in the University of the Philippines.
He was declared a National Artist for Visual Arts on May 15, 1973. He died at the age of 85 on July 12, 1976.
