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Yamashita was actually held responsible for numerous other war crimes that the prosecution claimed was a systematic campaign to torture and kill Filipino civilians and Allied POWs as shown in the Palawan Massacre of 139 U.S. POWs, wanton executions of guerrillas, soldiers, and civilians without due process like the execution of Philippine Army ...
In Thailand, Amerasian children are dubbed as Luk khrueng or half children in the Thai language. These Amerasians were fathered by US soldiers who took part in the Vietnam War. [39] At the height of the Vietnam War, 50,000 GIs were based in Thailand. [40] The Pearl S. Buck Foundation estimated around 5,000-8,000 Thai Amerasians.
The War Brides Act of 1945, and subsequent Alien Fiancées and Fiancés Act of 1946, [26] [71] continued to apply until the end of 1953, [1] allowing veterans of the Regiment, [1] and other Filipino American veterans, [35] to return to the Philippines to bring back fiancées, wives, and children. [1]
1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War; 1914–1918 World War I 1914 Siege of Tsingtao; 1937–1945 World War II 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War; 1939–1945 Pacific War; 1938–1945 Soviet-Japanese Border Wars; 1942 Battle of Midway; June 1946 Shibuya incident; 22 June 1966 – present Sanrizuka Struggle; February 19 – 28, 1972 Asama-SansÅ ...
In the 1930s, she worked in night clubs in the northwest U.S. and later joined a musical stock company that toured east Asia including Hong Kong and Manila. While on tour in the Philippines, she met Filipino sailor Manuel Fuentes at a night club where she was performing. They married and had a daughter, Dian (later Americanized to Diane) Claire.
World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (Military History of the United States) by S. Sandler (2000) Routledge ISBN 0-8153-1883-9; By sword and fire: The Destruction of Manila in World War II, 3 February – 3 March 1945 (Unknown Binding) by Alphonso J. Aluit (1994) National Commission for Culture and the Arts ISBN 971-8521-10-0
The death of any Filipino citizen at the hands of another country in the South China Sea would be “very close” to an act of war, Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr ...
The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines: Leyte, 1941–1945. Southeast Asia Program, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University, 1961. 246p. emphasis on social history; Steinberg, David J. Philippine Collaboration in World War II. University of Michigan Press, 1967. 235p.