Philperiodicals

Battle of Manila

The Philippines Armed Forces Journal was the journal of the Philippine Armed Forces, assembled after independence in 1946 with Filipino veterans from the U.S. Army Forces Far East (USAFFE). In February 1956, Betty S. Mata published an illustrated history of the Battle of Manila narrating the operations. On January 29th, the “D-day” for Luzon, USAFFE forces advanced into Manila liberating Santo Tomas University on February 5th, and then crossing the Pasig while Manila’s business district had been set afire by the Japanese “with disregard of laws and ethics” as a weapon of vengeance on the hopeless civilians. The Japanese, depicted as suicidal fanatics offering bitter resistance, made a last-ditch stand in Intramuros until US reinforcements secured the rest of the city, and made a final assault on February 16. The USAFFE had to fight for each building and drop an incredible amount of artillery until the 5th of March both Intramuros and the Japanese were annihilated. The destruction of Manila was blamed on the Japanese, and not on the new world power, conveniently depicted in this and other articles during the upcoming Cold War as a liberator, not only of the Philippines but of all of Asia.

Fecha

1956-02

Fuente

“Battle of Manila”, Philippine Armed Forces Journal, Vol. IX, num. 4, February 1956, pp. 26-31. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Nagai, Hitoshi. "Hiroshima and Manila: Experiences and Memories of Loss in World War II." Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 10.1 (2022): 271-286.
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes. Telling the Story and Telling the Story Not: U.S. Army-Media Relations During the Battle of Manila, American Journalism, 37 (2020): 1-26.
Ortuño Casanova, R. “Manila existe: Filipinas y la recuperación de la memoria histórica en la novela española”. Neophilologus 99, 433–448 (2015).

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Idioma

English

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Materia

Battle of Manila

Japanese occupation

Philippines Armed Forces Journal