World War II by Sean Sheehan

Author:Sean Sheehan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

For every soldier killed in the battle for Manila, which had a population of 800,000, six civilians lost their lives.

Japanese troops stopped the first U.S. advance from the south at Nichols Field, inflicting 900 casualties. A U. S. northern advance turned grim near Paco Station where 300 Japanese held out for two days at a cost of 335 U.S. casualties. On February 15, Iwabuchi rejected Yamashita’s order to break out of the city of Manila and made his last stand in Intramuros, a square mile of stone-built buildings surrounded by a high wall.

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