Eighty years have passed since the Battle of Manila broke out on February 3, 1945. The month-long fighting to retake the nation’s capital from the Japanese occupation forces left an estimated 100,000 ...

Survivors of the 1945 Battle of Manila recount in ‘Children of the War’ how they escaped ‘mass executions’ during the ...

3 to March 3, 1945, battle for Manila, the largest urban warfare campaign ever engaged in by U.S. forces. More than 1,000 American troops and more than 100,000 Filipino civilians were killed in ...

As biographer Kenneth Ray Young noted, after a victorious battle in February ... have prepared the Filipinos for what happened in 1945, when Manila was utterly destroyed in a single month.

20, 1944, and in some areas lasting beyond the war’s official end in September 1945, was extremely complex. The Battle of Manila, which lasted from early February until the beginning of March ...

At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict. MacArthur's famous return to the Philippines ...

As the Philippines, United States, and even Japan look back at the lessons from the 1945 Battle of Manila, so too must the three allies think about the challenges of the present MANILA, ...

He fought in the Philippines as a private first class with the 11th Airborne Division, seeing intense action across the islands of Leyte and Luzon, and in the climactic Battle of Manila.

18 for a week of events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila ... The fight to free Manila, the Philippine capital, raged from Feb. 3 to March 3, 1945, as Allied forces ...

The film opens with one of the seven child survivors singing “Sakura” off-key and forgetting the lyrics, before the melody weaves into actual scenes from the Battle of Manila, with smoke ...