February 3rd, 2025, marked the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Manila. Fought in the closing stages of World ...

About 66,000 U.S. veterans of WWII are still living ... The fight to free Manila, the Philippine capital, raged from Feb. 3 to March 3, 1945, as Allied forces led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur ...

Survivors of the 1945 Battle of Manila recount in 'Children of the War' how they escaped 'mass executions' during the ...

John Hodges, a veteran of the campaign to retake the Philippines in World War II, looks on at ceremony to mark 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. (Photo courtesy of American Battle ...

Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a ...

Never Forget” is an expression and political slogan used to urge others to remember the events surrounding a national tragedy. It was first used in relation to the damages brought by World War II ...

MANILA, Philippines — Eds Note: This story previously moved on Oct. 19, 2016. The AP is republishing it after the arrest of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. The bodies terrified ...

Manila was poisonous ... Patton—the most divisive American leader of World War II. Since fleeing Corregidor in March 1942 after the initial Japanese invasion, MacArthur had been derisively ...

MANILA, March 11 (Reuters) - Former Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte was sent to The Hague on Tuesday hours after he was arrested in Manila at the request of the International Criminal Court as ...