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RHC-Dig-00056 |
| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Walker, Will
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| Title Statement |
- Title - War tunnel heritage :
- Remainder of title - the secret subterranean passage beneath Bonifacio Global City in Metro Manila, Philippine Islands /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Will Walker
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2016
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 26 pages
- Type of unit - application (.doc)
- Size of unit - 2 MB
- Accompanying material - + PowerPoint (.ppt)
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| General Note |
- General note - A paper about the Ft. McKinley Tunnels submitted and presented by Will Walker at the Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Harding University. It was awarded best Graduate Paper and Presentation.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "If one were to travel back in time to the first week of December 1941, you would find that the area now known as the Global City was a bustling American army base readying itself for war with Japan. It was named Fort William McKinley after the United States' twenty-fifth president, and was established in 1902 shortly after the Philippine-American War. President McKinley made the decision to annex the Philippines in 1898 and thus his name was used for the first long-term American military base in the islands. Shortly after the annexation he described to a group of Methodist missionaries visiting the White House that after wrestling with the idea of what to do with the Philippines, he was eventually given "divine guidance" before making his decision. Today, almost nothing remains of Fort McKinley, but over the past several years a subterranean relic has surfaced to the Philippine public which is both mysterious and compelling. Deep beneath the Global City lies a labyrinth of tunnels that are currently being explored for the development of an underground national heritage site and museum. Conflicting news reports as to the tunnel's origins and history could pose a problem for how the site will be interpreted for a national and global community who will essentially be the consumers of the proposed tourist site. Most articles place an emphasis on the tunnel's history during the Second World War, both as it was used by the Fil-American forces and the Imperial Japanese, but they are lacking in actual primary source documentation and scant in details of its actual purpose and importance. Furthermore, the landscape where the Global City is situated has dramatically changed since the 1940s, creating another dilemma for how the site will be used to represent the past. It is the aim of this article to shed some light into what was originally called the Fort McKinley tunnel, but later came to be known as the Fort Bonifacio tunnel."
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Will Walker
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Fort William McKinley (Philippines)
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Tunnel warfare
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Taguig (National Capital Region, Philippines)
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bonifacio Global City
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