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May 11, 2021 · When Tokyo decided to make the Philippines the decisive battleground of the Pacific war in mid-1944, the guerrillas remained positioned to play a major role in that fight. The war between Japan and the U.S. caught the Philippines in transition to national independence and riven by social and political divisions. Many Filipinos agreed to ...
- The Philippines and Japan
- The Landings
- Withdrawal
- The Battle of Bataan
- The Battle of Corregidor
- Aftermath
During the 1930s, Japan began a campaign of imperial expansion in the western Pacific. They wanted to gain power over their neighbors and also to oust American and European influences from the region. Early in 1941, the western powers were beginning to pay attention to the situation. America sent troops to the Philippines. Although they were trying...
On December 8, 1941, around 3 am local time, the news reached US forces in the Philippines that Pearl Harbor was under attack. The long-awaited war with Japan had finally come. Confusion followed about what to do with American planes on the ground in the Philippines. No decision to prepare for a defense or to attack Japanese positions lead to unrea...
Led by General MacArthur, the Americans began following their contingency plan – to withdraw into the Bataan Peninsula. Confusingly, it is not on Bataan Island, but a defensible part of Luzon. Supplies were hastily pulled backed into the peninsula and troops rushed to join up with their comrades there. Meanwhile, American forces carried out delayin...
Three months of fighting followed as the Japanese tried to defeat the American peninsula stronghold. Early on, over-confidence and poor planning led to mistakes on the Japanese part. The experienced troops who had brought them success were replaced by inexperienced ones. It was done to free the veterans to fight elsewhere. With the work of taking t...
Corregidor was a coastal artillery position at the mouth of Manila Bay. It was equipped with mines, anti-aircraft guns, and shore batteries. At the start of May 1942, 11,000 troops were there. The Japanese bombarded Corregidor in preparation for an attack. Their bombers destroyed most of the shore batteries, taking heavy casualties from the AA guns...
The Battle of the Philippines was one of America’s greatest military defeats. It was also one of the most successful acts of resistance to Japanese expansion in the early war. It held up Japanese forces while the Americans regrouped from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and while MacArthur prepared a new base of operations in Australia. For the ...
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In 2015, as we observe the 70 th anniversary of the end of World War II, the history of kamishibai offers a rare opportunity to reflect on why and how so many different types of kamishibai emerged and flourished during this turbulent time in Japanese history.
May 7, 2024 · Follow. 6 min read. ·. May 7, 2024. 2. The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, spanning from 1942 to...
- Jessica Faye
Jun 25, 2022 · Americans remember the Liberation of the Philippines beginning with MacArthur’s return in October, 1944. Yet in the two-and-a-half years after the fall of Bataan, Filipino insurgents waged a bloody guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation army. Indeed, Tokyo’s determination to hold the islands in the face of local resistance ultimately ...
- Lena Yang
James Kelly Morningstar’s new book War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 fills an important historical gap by detailing the guerrilla war waged by Filipino insurgents and US soldiers who refused to surrender or avoided captivity during the Japanese occupation.
kamishibai became a primary form of propaganda and indoctrination. This paper will briefly explore the history of kamishibai , and in particular, the ideological uses to which kamishibai was put during the. prewar and wartime periods. As this history shows, the human. connection storytelling creates is a powerful one, and that power is not.
