A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE DURING THE LIBERATION OF MANILLA DURING WORLD WAR II - “PRACTICALLY ALL OUR NEIGHBORS AND THE CHILDREN’S PLAYMATES HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY THESE DASTARDLY JAPS.”; File copy of a letter describing a woman’s horrifying but tenacious effort to save herself and her children from massacre by Japanese soldiers as American forces liberated Manila during World War Two
Manilla, Philippines: Santo Thomas Internment Camp: February 16, 1945. Unbound. This onion-skin file copy of a letter measures 8.5” x 11”. It was written by “Walter” (who identifies himself as an employee of Trans World Airlines) immediately after his liberation from the Saint Thomas Internment Camp run by the Japanese..... More