Camp SpencerCamp Spencer is a Marked Structure, NHCP; Registered Property, Province of La Union located at Luna, La Union, Region I.
Camp Spencer, the general headquarters of the USAFIP, NL located along Darigayos Cove in Luna, is reserved as a Military Shrine and Park by virtue of Proclamation 590 signed by President Fidel V. Ramos on June 1, 1995. Darigayos is approximately 34.2 kilometers north of San Fernando accessible through the Bitalag Junction in Bacnotan or through Balaoan.
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USAFFE-NL Military Shrine and Park; At Camp Spencer, the USAFIP-NL planned their operations and mapped out strategies for the capture of General Yamashita. It was also at Camp Spencer where Yamashita was held prisoner before he was executed at the Los Baños Prisoner of War Camp.
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Camp Spencer
Named in honor of Private Grafton Spencer, AUS, killed in action early 1943. This camp in Darigayos, site of the GHQ, was center and base of operations of the USAFIP, NL, during the liberation campaign of Luzon, from January to September 1945 when 52,033 enemy troops were killed and 32,001 captured. This camp was deactivated on orders of the Philippine Army, December 1946.
Darigayos cove was the landing scene of American submarine landings for vital war materiel and supplies from the south-west Pacific Area, command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, late 1944.
Year Unveiled: 1958