WWII 80th Year of the bloody liberation of Manila hosted by Adamson U- a Boni Escoda report

February 3, 1945 the start of the bloody Pyrrhic liberation of Manila that turned the City called "The Paris of the Orient" into a total wasteland. 70 percent was caused by the imperial Japanese armed forces' savagery and 30 % by the mortar shelling of the liberating American Forces. The population lost an estimated 100 thousand unarmed civilians,1,010 American soldiers, and 15 thousand Japanese soldiers. 5,565 American soldiers were wounded and thousands of civilians and guerrillas were wounded. More details and over 300 pictures are found in Jose Maria Boni Escoda's 380-page Warsaw of Asia: The Rape of Manila, (now out of print), Fourth edition be released this year