• Battle of Corregidor 1942

Date of birth:

August 19th, 1878 (Baler/El Príncipe, Philippines)

Date of death:

August 1st, 1944 (Saranac Lake/New York, United States)

Buried on:

Quezon Memorial Shrine

Nationality:

Philippine

Manuel Quezon was the president of the Philippine War Cabinet 1941–1944 and was the head of the Philippine government-in-exile. He died of Tuberculosis.

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Awarded on:

December 21st, 1937

Presented by Mayor Wu in Shanghai, China on January 28, 1937.

Awarded on:

June 18th, 1939

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

June 8th, 1940

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

2015

In recognition of his Open Doors policy which enabled the influx into his country of more than 1,300 European Jewish refugees who fled from the horrors of Nazism.

The ceremony took place on 19 August 2015. Posthumously awarded

• Photo 1: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Reproduction Number: LC-USW33-019075-C (Public Domain)
• - Quezon, Manuel L., The Good Fight (1946)
  - https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/20053
  - President Manuel Quezon was posthumously awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Medal; The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
  - Speech of President Quezon on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Decoration of the Order of the Brilliant Jade to the President, January 28, 1937 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines
  - An Act Authorizing His Excellency, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, to Accept the Decoration Known as the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Conferred Upon Him by His Majesty, the King of Italy
  - An Act Authorizing His Excellency, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, to Accept the Decoration Known as the Order of the Brilliant Jade, Conferred Upon Him by the National Government of the Republic of China
  - Annual Report of the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine ... - United States. High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands
  

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Presidential Car Museum

Quezon City - National Capital Region

Memorial U.S.S. Maine Mast Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington - Virginia

Battle of Corregidor 1942