A stretcher party brings out a wounded U.S. soldier after an attack by U.S. troops on Feb. 23, 1945, to liberate Filipino prisoners in Intramuros, Philippines. (Naval History and Heritage Command) The ...
The Manila American Cemetery has more than 17,000 marble headstones for Americans killed in the Pacific war. It is the largest U.S. military cemetery overseas. (Bob Drogin / Los Angeles Times) This ...
Rescue from the horrors of Auschwitz 60 years ago was commemorated at the end of January. Civilian prisoners of the Japanese had obtained their freedom in the Philippines soon after. The battle for ...
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 ...
A pair of U.S. veterans are headed home after one of the last visits to the Philippines by Americans who fought there during World War II. Navy veteran Arthur Grabiner, 99, of New York City, and Army ...
Van Sickle describes a twilight world in her memoir of her WW II experiences in the Japanese internment camp of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. Internees were not prisoners of war, but civilians who ...
To answer some of the questions subscribers all over the world have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news. Of all the thousands of Americans who entered Manila ...
Every now and then, I am struck by the stories of hardship and struggle that many readers carry with them in their daily lives. These are often tales told in letters based on firsthand experience — ...
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