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The Lawspeaker
08-02-2020, 01:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZjTbotmg0

Manila was the biggest street-fighting battle of the Pacific campaign, and also one of the grimmest of WWII.
Kamal900
08-02-2020, 01:39 PM
Gg. I wouldn't be surprised if the Filipinos today still resent the Japanese for the atrocities in the country.
The Lawspeaker
08-02-2020, 01:52 PM
Gg. I wouldn't be surprised if the Filipinos today still resent the Japanese for the atrocities in the country.


Things are turning for the better there now but my fiancee at first really couldn't understand my fascination with Japan and I don't blame her.
kundur
08-02-2020, 01:59 PM
Japanese assaults on The Phillipines, British Possessions (Malay) and Dutch Indonesia to the south were facilitated by France, under Marshall Petain (Catholic allies of Hitler), who literally opened the French-controlled Vietnam to Japan, enabling Japan to set up military bases there.

Indy Neidell, American historian explains the assault preparations here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKqNKnBz3Y&t=830s
Kamal900
08-02-2020, 04:43 PM
Japanese assaults on The Phillipines, British Possessions (Malay) and Dutch Indonesia to the south were facilitated by France, under Marshall Petain (Catholic allies of Hitler), who literally opened the French-controlled Vietnam to Japan, enabling Japan to set up military bases there.

Indy Neidell, American historian explains the assault preparations here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKqNKnBz3Y&t=830s

Hey Bori. What's up with your hatred towards the Catholics?