Location: Ozamis City, Misamis Occidental
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 15 July 1965
Installed by: National Historical Commission (NHC)
Marker text:
WOMEN’S AUXILIARY SERVICE
ON THIS SITE MAY 18, 1943 WAS ADOPTED THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE WOMEN’S AUXILIARY SERVICE LED BY JOSEFA BORROMEO CAPISTRANO WHICH ASSISTED THE TENTH MILITARY DISTRICT UNDER CO. WENDELL W. FERTIC, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, IN RESISTING THE JAPANESE INVADERS. DEDICATED TO THE COURAGEOUS WOMEN OF MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL WHO VOLUNTEERED AND RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR FREEDOM.
