Perdieron un total de 45 buques
La Vanguardia was the Spanish-speaking diary of the Roces group, which also owned The Tribune. Forcefully sold to the Japanese, it served during the Japanese occupation as a propaganda tool. In one of its latest numbers, on 20 October 1944, La Vanguardia announced an early victory of the Imperial Navy the first days of the biggest naval battle of the war, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, publishing that the US had lost 45 warships, 25.000 lives, and 500.000 tones, as well as 52 airplanes. That day’s issue opened with a picture of a shot-down US bomber and its burned crew, and another of the skies of Manila burning with anti-aircraft warfare, meant to convince the readers of Japanese military hegemony.
The conflict, which was divided into a series of smaller battles, started that day but would finish on the 25th with the destruction of the Japanese fleet and the break of Japanese supply lines to South Asia. A massive Us victory (although La Vanguardia would still announce their defeat on the 26th) would pave the way to a US landing in the Philippines and the bloody Philippines campaign, which ended with the destruction of Manila, and the newspaper.
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Fecha
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1944-10-20
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Fuente
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“Perdieron un total de 45 buques”, La Vanguardia, Vol. XXXV, num. 226, 20 October, 1944, p.1. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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Trota Jose, Ricardo. 1990. “The Tribune as a Tool of Japanese Propaganda, 1942-45”. Philippine Studies 38 (2): 135-50.
———. 1990. “The ‘Tribune’ During the Japanese Occupation”. Philippine Studies 38 (1): 45-64.
Willmott H. P. 2005. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Emilio Vivó Capdevila
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Idioma
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Spanish
