Battle of Manila

This “extensively researched and well-illustrated” history recounts the bloody fight to liberate Manila from occupation during WWII ( WWII History Magazine ). For nearly four years during the Second World War, Japanese occupation had devastated the Philippines. Then, in 1944, General MacArthur led a massive army of American and Filipino forces determined to take back the island nation. Essential to the Philippine Campaign was recapturing the country’s once-glittering capital city, Manila. In lat