Photo courtesy David Smollar America’s World War II return to the Philippines commenced 80 years ago Sunday on Oct. 20, 1944, when 150,000 U.S. Army troops began storming Leyte island from an ...
In February last year, Marcos approved a wider U.S. military presence in the Philippines by allowing rotating groups of American military forces to stay in four more Philippine military camps.
By the end of World War II in the summer of 1945, about 130 American warships were sunk ... results did not prevent Japan’s defeat in the Philippines, they exceeded considerably what the ...