MACARTHUR LIBERATES MANILA, PHILIPPINES BATTLE OF LUZON & IWO JIMA 43964
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This fascinating 1945 newsreel shows the battle for the Philippines, as U.S. forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur launch an assault on the island of Leyte. The battle resulted in a U.S. and Filipino victory. The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March 1945, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan. While not the highest in US casualties, it is the highest net casualty battle US forces fought in World War Two, with 192,000 to 205,000 Japanese combatants killed, 8,000 Americans combatants killed, and between 120,000 to 140,000 Filipino civilians and combatants killed.
The newsreel has some fascinating moments including images of the liberation of Japanese prisoner of war camps, and the wholesale destruction of the City of Manila -- which the Japanese refused to abandon. Much of the City of Manila was destroyed in the conflict.
The second half of the newsreel shows the Battle for Iwo Jima. The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February - 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire during World War II. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, along with its three airfields (including the South Field and the Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.
At the 5:43 mark, rescue at sea of airmen from downed aircraft is seen.
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Last year visited the American cemetery in Manila. The volume of tombstones, tens of thousands, shocked me. And to think a lot of Americans today have no idea what happened here.
Awesome Actual footage!!! God Bless our troops and all of those people who defend FREEDOM!!!
My uncle was killed there. On the Bataan death march. His name Julian Ponce
My Uncle Del was KIA in Luzon. R.I.P Del.
What was his division?.
How was he Ur uncle when this was a long time ago
I cannot comprehend what the infantry soldiers faced liberating Manila, the heat and fear they faced.. What a generation. Does anyone have any information about the Visayas Islands (Panay) during the occupation?.
My father was involved in the retaking of the Philippines. He and everyone he knew and worked with hated MaCarthur. MaCarthur was all about himself and how he would look if he didn't take the Phillippines back.
Your welcome too 🇲🇽😞
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20 mexican vs 5 fillipino search it on youtube
Lol
Thank you America for our freedom!
That’s what family is supposed to do for each other . Thank you Philippines for helping Israel and saving a lot of holocaust victims. It’s love, we were the good guys and still are the good guys! 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇮🇱!
@@D_M_S_4 bro what
@@D_M_S_4 We should have not saved your countrymen. Instead of returning the favor, the USA and Israel ordered their ISIS Boys to attack Marawi while Duterte was in Russia for friendship, trade, and weapons deal.
the video made it look so quickand easy.
Thanks for this 👍
Manila, pearl of the orient, hundreds of years of history and heritage destroyed during its liberation fron February to March 1945. Its destruction was twofold. First the civilians were murdered, houses burned, buildings and bridges blown up by the Japanese, then the Americans who had to fight their way through the city to rid it of Japanese infestation used their tanks, howitzers, bazookas, flamethrowers.
Words is not enough to thanks to our MOTHER of the NATION AMERICA to save our nation PHILIPPINES
America left, when bataan death march starting but filifinos slowly killing some troops of local soldier. Menwhile america back but not too more japanese soldier cause some japaneses soldier tired to fight and not enough suply for war
S****id! They came back for their POWs and didn't even care if 250k Manila residents perish in their bombardment.
nice,
Thanks America
at 1:02 the commentator said " landed on the same beachhead that Gen. Yamashita landed". WRONG the Japanese invasion force in 1942 was commanded by Gen. Masaharu Homma.
Exactly,he was wrong.Yamashita arrived in 1944 to organize the defenses.
Mac Arthur the best gen, of all time.
Thanks
Napoleon
Alexander Was.
Napoleon and Hannibal
Vey arrogant. His chief of staff had affair with married woman. Should of been court martialed! Every man who had to go thru Sutherland thought the man wad sh##! He tried to take credit of 11th airborne operations and outcomes. At one point said liberation of Manila was due too him!
My dad was there.
4:36 true legend
MacArthur actually liberated the American POWs and checked San Miguel Brewery where has shares. America's bombardment caused the death of 250k Filipino civilians. I wish the Americans didn't come back and went straight to Japan since that country will surrender after being nuked anyway.
I knew it America still team up with Philippines 1944-2018
The guy from 4:27 Kawawa
God bless the Mexican pilots that fought there! North America United .
I live in Batangas
But philippines never did world War l only world War ll
Maybe the Spanish war
Philippine American War
Korean war Vietnam war
Yes sir.. right hands only.. Amzing grace😷👍👍.. Navy👏👏👏...LUZON.
This is not a liberation but the American reoccupation of the Philippines.
Aww poor baby 😢
They gave Philippines freedom after this. Not reoccupation.
The US consciously did not colonize the Philippines. We forced through the Atlantic Charter to ensure decolonization and self determination.
yes, some Japanese who participated in WWII commited atrocities in PH, but we cannot generalize all Japanese (those born after WWII and the Japanese christian exiles in 1614 in Manila are not at fault..thanks to US for liberating manila in WWII..we cannpt gejeralize in tje same way we must recognize bad acts of some
🇺🇲💖🇵🇭 that's the West Philippine Sea not the South China Sea 🇺🇲💖🇵🇭
filipinos didnt manage to defeat that since america came i know that cause im from philipines.
Mac liberates...it was the forces on the ground not the guy that was hiding in Australia.
LMAO. If MacArthur didn't liberate the Philippines as quickly as he tried to do you would be whining about the hundreds of thousands of Filipino and U.S. POWs that would have been executed in mid-1945 if the Allies had invaded Formosa/Taiwan and abandoned the Philippines. You would have just turned around and said 'MacArthur killed hundreds of thousands of POWs because he stupidly invaded Formosa in late 1944. He should have invaded Leyte and then Manila in late 1944!!!' You also would be whining about the around 30-40K death toll of invading Taiwan. The invasion of Taiwan would have made Okinawa look like a cakewalk.
Also FDR was the one who ordered Mac to leave Corregidor. Nice try though. What good would MacArthur have been to the war if he had been captured and then executed? FDR refused to give Mac proper equipment and soldiers also in 1940-41.
@@nogoodnameleft Mac bloody coward...even when arrive Leyte thy do 4 takes on film to make him look good. . finally us government put him aside.. read your history my friend
@@nogoodnameleft the brave men did it,sacrifice while Mac sat safe in Brisbane pulling he's pude
MacARTHUR . . .DESTROYED MANILA.
The war didn't needed Philippines it wasn't in he way with a waste
I fully concur.
McArthur's of tge so called "liberation of Manila" did not contribute in the surrender of Japan during the denouement of the war.
Rather, Manila was completely destroyed by American bombs, aerial and naval, because of McArthur's egotism.
He neither defended Manila at the onset of the war.
The USA actually needed it not to save the Filipinos but to save the thousands of American and European ally POWs. Mac also wanted it bad as he wanted to see and check on the San Miguel Brewery where he had shares.
You people didn't go to school and it really shows. Japan invaded the Philippines because it is a strategic location that holds key supply routes in the Pacific. The Philippines was also an American colony at the time. The destruction that decimated the city of Manila was collateral. Nothing more. It was prudent that the Japanese were driven back from the islands, and it has proven to be a significant victory in the pacific war.
@@SemperFine Destruction is inevitable but the death of 250k citizens was avoidable. Those dumb Americans should have used commandos in flushing out the Japs like what the Philippine military did in Marawi that minimized civilian deaths. But DUGOUT Macarthur and the Americans didn't care about the Filipinos. They were already contented in liberating their American POWs in UST and they felt they didn't need to negotiate for the evacuation of civilians before starting their carpet bombing of Manila. Their tactic even up to now is to finish battles within a few weeks in total disregard of civilians and hostages. I wish the Americans didn't return. Their aim was just to rescue their POWs anyway. Also Japan was doomed and was scheduled to be nuked that will make them surrender. If the Americans bypassed the Philippines, those 250k dead Manilans would have survived the war.
the americans had liberated the philippines under japanese occupation during ww2 because it was an american colony just like the brits to malaysia and the french to indo china. until today many filipinos believe that the u.s. help them. what a joke!
Sure! It goes anywhere else like Americans or other countries protecting their interest.
Bro,you got that right,what a fukking joke.
Look at the Pilippines today.
What a disaster.
The Watcher. You are so delirious in your hate of MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines that you failed to see the strategic importance of it. To understand this, you need to know why the Philippines were taken by Japan. The Japanese held the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) which was rich in oil. American Philippines cuts off that oil supply from mainland Japan. For that reason Japan took the Philippines. Also since the Philippines was an American Territory at the time America had the obligation to take it back. Also, MacArthur was ordered to leave Corregidor but he swore to return and he did with the invasion of Leyte.
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@@binyominsilverman1592 If MacArthur didn't liberate the Philippines as quickly as he tried to do @The Watcher would be whining about the hundreds of thousands of Filipino and U.S. POWs that would have been executed in mid-1945 if the Allies had invaded Formosa/Taiwan and abandoned the Philippines. The Watcher would have just turned around and said 'MacArthur killed hundreds of thousands of POWs because he stupidly invaded Formosa in late 1944. He should have invaded Leyte and then Manila in late 1944!!!'
Invading Formosa/Taiwan in late 1944 would have been a bloodbath on the scale of Okinawa. Nimitz and George Marshall really wanted MacArthur to abandon the Philippines in 1944 and invade Formosa. Formosa/Taiwan is a lot bigger than Okinawa and is a helluva lot harder to actually invade than Okinawa (so close to the Chinese mainland coast which Japan occupied). Remember Formosa was an annexed official territory of Japan like Korea back then.
The wrong party won...
11th airborne!!!🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷😄