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US anti-Japanese #propaganda poster. #PsychologicalOperations during #WorldWarII sought to utterly demoralize enemy forces and civilian populations while simultaneously steeling the resolve and mobilizing the full industrial and military might of one's own nation.

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June 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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1942 - A Japanese soldier poses with captured ammunition at Corregidor. 🇯🇵
(GASEI)

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June 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Captain and Mrs. Alfredo Soniega, formerly commanding officer of Squadron 268 guerrillas, Capt. Soniega is now attached to a U.S. infantry regiment. Mrs. Soniega travels with her husband and helps him fight. Luzon 1945. (US Signal Corps)

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June 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa - June 1944, The US 5th fleet, commanded by Admiral Spruance, emerged victorious against Ozawa’s fleet that lost nearly 400 sea-based planes in the 'Great Marianas Turkey Shoot' due to being hampered by miscommunication.
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June 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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In commemoration for Women's Month: our admin's pics of a statue dedicated to Filipina Comfort Women along Roxas Boulevard back in March of 2018. Pressure from Japanese authorities at the time resulted in the statue being removed.

📸 R. Fortes (2018)

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March 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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30Mar1942: Japanese bombers attacked American field hospital No. 1 at Bataan, despite the large red crosses painted on the building's roof, killing 15. In the evening, Japanese radio broadcast an apology for this attack.

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March 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Feb 1945: Buildings at Gandara Street (now Sabino Padilla Street) in Binondo on fire.

March is also incidentally Fire Prevention Month in the Philippines.

Photo: LIFE Magazine
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March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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March 18, 1945: "'Cats' build a ramp to the LST to facilitate unloading on the beach at Panay, P.I."

(NARA)

Note: 'Cats' are the Caterpillar bulldozers and LST stands for Landing Ship, Tank.

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March 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Pet monkey argues with himself in mirror of jeep ambulance in the Philippines.

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March 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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IJN Light Cruiser Abukuma - the sixth and last of the Nagara class light cruisers completed for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Saw action in #PearlHarbor and the Pacific, disabled in the #BattleofSurigaoStrait in October 1944.

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March 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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A minor Japanese war tunnel exploration conducted by the Bamban WWII Museum / Bamban Historical Society. These structures remain all over the Philippines, largely forgotten.

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2025 Bamban Historical Society Bamban WWII Museum Center for Pacific War Studies PGT – Tarlac Provincial Tourism Office PROJECT DISCOVERY WAR TUNNELS IN BAMBAN HILLS 2025 Operation Fireflies 2025...
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March 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Quezon Bridge (then & now) - a combined arch & prestressed concrete girder bridge that connecting districts Quiapo & Ermita across the Pasig River. Named in honor of then Philippine Pres. Manuel Quezon, its Art Deco style was inspired from the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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March 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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February 24, 1945: M4 Sherman tank at the gate of Fort Santiago.

During the American mopping-up operations at Fort Santiago, bodies of victims of Japanese atrocities were discovered. The City Aquarium fell to the Americans in that afternoon.

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February 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Surviving Filipino children amidst the rubble during or after the Battle of Manila (1945)

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February 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Photo: "General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Commander of all Japanese forces in the Philippines, calmly puffing an American cigar as he surrendered to the 128th Regiment of the 32nd Division at Kiangan, PH"

He was executed by hanging at Los Baños Prison Camp on Feb. 23, 1946.

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February 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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February 19, 1945: Sergeant Henry L. Suzuki — US citizen with Japanese ancestry — attached to the 161st Regimental Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, looks over some captured Japanese documents at San Manuel, Luzon, P.I.

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February 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A 44th Tank Battalion Sherman destroyed by Japanese anti-tank assets. Likely an improvised depth charge mine.

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February 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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February 8, 1945: Filipino guerrillas and civilians bring in a captured Japanese tied to a pole for questioning in Manila.

Photo: US National Archives and Records Administration
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February 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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American soldiers patrolling down Avenida Rizal, Manila, Philippines 1945

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February 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Photo: University of Santo Tomas internees form a crowd to greet General Douglas MacArthur who has dropped by at the former prisoner of war camp in February of 1945

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February 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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1942: Japanese soldiers and Filipino porters crossing a river at Hermosa, Bataan.

(GASEI)

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February 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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February 8, 1945: Soldier watching Manila burn from the beach at Parañaque, Philippines

(NARA)

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February 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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#USArmy tankers who participated in the #BattleofManila 1945 (B Company, 44th Tank Battalion). The middle #tank (Battlin' Basic) was the first tank that went through the gate of the University of Santo Tomas internment camp on the night of Feb. 3, 1945.

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February 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Following the recapture of Clark Field in Luzon, Philippines, American intelligence officers inspect a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M-2 bomber, February 1945.

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February 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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On Feb. 3, 1945, a composite hull M4 Sherman tank that its crew named the “Battlin Basic” barreled its way through the front gates of the University of Santo Tomas, in Manila, Philippines. It was the first glimpse of liberation for over 3,000 interned civilian POWs.

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February 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM