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In the Philippine Red Cross Building (now Manila Med), more than 53 men were killed. [18] [19] Rape of civilian women at the nurses home of the Philippine General Hospital. [18] Santo Domingo Church in Intramuros where civilians perished by gunfire. German Club where about 100 civilians were killed in the building set on fire, many choked from ...
At the outset of World War II, US Army and US Navy nurses were stationed at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, and other military hospitals around Manila. During the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942), 88 US Army nurses escaped, in the last week of December 1941, to Corregidor and Bataan.
Filipina Comfort Women was a statue publicly displayed along Baywalk, Roxas Boulevard in Manila.Unveiled on December 8, 2017 and installed through the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and other donors and foundations, it was dedicated to the Filipino "comfort women", who worked in military brothels in World War II including those who were coerced into doing so.
Nieves Fernandez (born circa 1906) was a Filipino guerrilla leader in Tacloban City, during World War II. [2] [3]Before the war, Fernandez worked as a school teacher. When the Imperial Japanese began occupying the Philippine Islands, including her hometown of Tacloban, Fernandez organized a resistance movement that numbered around 110 fighters. [4]
Historical Marker, Plaza Lawton, Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila Bahay na Pula in San Ildefonso, Bulacan used as barracks by Japanese soldiers in World War II where young Filipino comfort women were imprisoned and used as sex slaves. Comfort women in the Philippines, called "Lolas" (grandmothers), formed different groups similar to the Korean survivors.
World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (Military History of the United States) by S. Sandler (2000) Routledge ISBN 0-8153-1883-9; By sword and fire: The Destruction of Manila in World War II, 3 February – 3 March 1945 (Unknown Binding) by Alphonso J. Aluit (1994) National Commission for Culture and the Arts ISBN 971-8521-10-0
The site is remembered for the mass rapes and murders committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. [1] [2] [3] The Japanese military murdered all of the men and boys in the adjacent Mapaniqui, Candaba, Pampanga, and forced over 100 women and girls into sexual slavery, confining and raping them in the Red House. [2]
Josefina Guerrero (August 5, 1917 – June 18, 1996) was a Filipino spy during World War II. [1] Guerrero had leprosy and was an unsuspicious and effective surveillance asset for American allied forces.