Correcting errors in narrating Manila’s liberation
The month of February 2018 was again the occasion to commemorate the Battle for Manila, the largest mass killing and destruction in Philippine history. There was attendance by diplomats and
The month of February 2018 was again the occasion to commemorate the Battle for Manila, the largest mass killing and destruction in Philippine history. There was attendance by diplomats and
Editor’s note: Excerpts from the author’s remarks during the 2017 Memorare Manila 1945. There has been nothing remotely approaching the Battle for Manila in terms of ruin, rape and death.
Late in the afternoon of Feb. 3, 1945, advance elements of the US 1st Cavalry Division rolled into Japanese-defended Manila and liberated Malacañang Palace first and then Santo Tomas Internment Camp.
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