Battle of Manila

(1945)
 Battle of Manila
Part of World war 2, the 1944-1945 Philippine
Campaign and pacific war

Aerial view of the destroyed walled city of intramorus

Taken on May 1945.
 Commanders and Leaders
• Douglas MacArthur Oscar Griswold Robert S. Beightler
 Commanders and Leaders
• Verne D. Mudge Joseph M. Swing Alfredo M. Santos
Commanders and Leaders
Sanji Iwabuchi
 BATTLE OF MANILA 1945
• The Battle of Manila (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila) (3 February – 3 March 1945) was
a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944-45, during the Second World War.
It was fought by American and Filipino forces against Japanese troops in Manila, the
capital city of the Philippines. The month-long battle, which resulted in the death of
over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city, was the scene of the
worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater. Japanese forces committed mass murder
against Filipino civilians during the battle. Along with massive loss of life, the battle
also destroyed architectural and cultural heritage dating back to the city's foundation.
The battle ended the almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the
Philippines (1942–1945). The city's capture was marked as General 
Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest. It is the last of the
many battles fought within Manila's history
 Killing of Civilians in the Battle of Manila

• According to the Presidential Museum and Library of the Republic of the

Philippines: “The massacres committed by Imperial Japanese troops on the
civilian population of Manila in February 1945 are among the more horrifying
tragedies of World War II in the Pacific theater. Approximately 100,000 civilians
in the City of Manila were killed indiscriminately and deliberately. According to
the XIV Corps Inspector General's report on the Manila atrocities, the following
war crimes had been committed: 1) Bayoneting, shooting, and bombing of
unarmed civilians—men, women, and children—with rifles, pistols, machine
guns, and grenades. 2) Herding large numbers of civilians—men, women, and
children—into buildings, barring the doors and windows, and setting fire to the
structures. 3) Throwing grenades into dugouts, where unarmed civilians were
taking cover; burying alive those who were not killed by the grenades.