The reclusive only child of five-star Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur made a rare public statement Saturday to honor the Americans and Filipinos who fought to liberate the Philippines from Japanese ...

He fought in the Philippines as a private first class with the 11th Airborne Division, seeing intense action across the islands of Leyte and Luzon, and in the climactic Battle of Manila.

In their analysis, a trio of British historians have likened the Battle for Manila to "a Greek tragedy, with the main actors drawn inexorably toward a bloody climax by forces largely outside their ...

The film opens with one of the seven child survivors singing “Sakura” off-key and forgetting the lyrics, before the melody weaves into actual scenes from the Battle of Manila, with smoke ...