Remembering The Battle of Manila...

The Battle for Manila from February 3 to March 3 1945, fought by U.S. and Japanese forces, was part of the Philippines' 1945 campaign. The one-month battle which culminated in a terrible bloodbath and total devastation of the city was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater, ended almost three years, 1942-1945 of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines. The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest.

The battle for Manila was the first and fiercest urban fighting in the entire Pacific War, from the time MacArthur started his leapfrogging campaign from New Guinea in 1942, leading to the invasion of Japan in 1945. Few battles in the closing months of World War II exceeded the destruction and the brutality of the massacres and savagery of the fighting in Manila.

A steel flagpole at the entrance to the old U.S. Embassy building in Intramuros, which was pockmarked by numerous bullet and shrapnel hits, and still stands today, a testament to the intense, bitter fighting for the walled city. In this category, Manila joined the company of Warsaw as the most devastated cities of World War II, as well as being the host to some of the fiercest urban fighting since Stalingrad....

Filipinos lost an irreplaceable cultural and historical treasure in the resulting carnage and devastation of Manila, remembered today as a national tragedy. Countless government buildings, universities and colleges, convents, monasteries and churches, and their accompanying treasures dating to the founding of the city, were decimated. The cultural patrimony (including art, literature, and especially architecture) of the Orient's first truly international melting pot - the confluence of Spanish, American and Asian culture - was eviscerated. Manila, once touted as the "Pearl of the Orient" and famed as a living monument to the meeting of American,Asian and European cultures, was virtually wiped out.......

The Worst Kind of Tragedy in The Philippines' History!!!!....

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[thereathing100]

I can guess how it may feel to have y'alls country destroyed in a war was terrible but im not going to say anything to insult or make America a savior but the Japanese was the aggressor and had plotted to destroy Manila and to kill every single filipino not leaving one single soul to survive. Yes it was bombed but how else are you to get the roaches out. We didn't occupy cause if we wanted to acquire y'all we would have stayed and not given you country back to after 300 yrs of rule by spain

[kevin080592]

@thereathing100

We didn't occupy cause if we wanted to acquire y'all we would have stayed and not given you country back to after 300 yrs of rule by spain

- as Mark Twain an anti-imperialist have quote, "these people have suffered 300 years of spanish rule, we should have given them education and a government of their own and i refuse in lading the talons of the american eagle in any other land"

[kevin080592]

warsaw ploand has been decimated to ruins and it was considered the most destroyed in the world, right next is manila,...BUT due to government will and determination, warsaw has restored everything that has been destroyed,..the same goes with japan, germany,france, korea and nanking,..what the philippines lacked however is the educational quality and the determination without ningas cogon,

[ellidan]

Filipino culture architecture gone forever . It's both the americans and Japanese fault. All Filipino people , never forget.

[kevin080592]

@ellidan

as far as i know, not only us filipinos have suffered with that great war of 1930's-40's but the rest of the world culture...it is just a matter of education and love of self,people and country that are essential when it comes to showing civility and progress towards in attaining national and self-esteem goals,..MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS! ngayon, bukas at magpakailanman...

[agent1772]

what a mess we children of this world can make. =<

[andrewoisky]

ang nagpapahirap sa atin ngaun ay mga intsik mga amerikano at mga kurakot na mga pilipinong nasa gobyerno..pagaralan nyo mabuti ang kasaysayan at makikita nyo na ang mga kastila ang humubog sa atin upang maging isang bansa tayo..oo may pangaabuso mula sa iilang kastila pero mas malaking kabutihan at malaking kaunlaran ang naibigay sa atin ng mga kastila...ang maging kristiyano lang ay napakalaking kayamanan na pamana sa atin ng kastila yan..

[Vietpinospartlyvodk2]

Manila is fine now and recovered

[mapece125]

kung walang giyera wala pa sanang tall buildings sa manila

[b748i]

@ellidan although it was the Americans and Japanese who brought physical destruction to the Philippines, it was also the Filipinos who lacked the determination to revive a culture so beautiful. Other countries and cities heavily damaged during the war rebuilt themselves because of the determination of their respective people. The Philippines won their independence but lost themselves in regards to maintaing culture.

[matampuhin09]

grabe! mga

bwisit na mga hapon na yan! d sana ganito ang buhay sa pinas! nananahimik ang mga pilipino noon bgla na lang darating mga

abnormal

na ito para sakupin ang bansa! bwisit kayo mga hapon noon!

[iiibryiii]

isipin na lng natin na kung sa panahon ngayon e mangyayari ito, sa kalagayan ng AFP ngayon, pano nila tayo maipagtatanggol, paano nila ma po protektahan ang bansa sa mga lumang gmit... di ko hinahanap ang digmaan pero wag na sana hinatyin pa dumating ito... sana maimodernize na ang AFP..MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS, MABUHAY ANG MAGIGITING NA SUNDALO, MABUHAY ANG LAHING MAHARLIKA..

[28rustyborn]

so i think nagstart ang kahirapan ng mga pilipino dahil sa japan,., haiz