REPORT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF MANILA AND JAPANESE ATROCITIES.Office Of The Reside

OFFICE OF THE RESIDENT COMMISSIONER [PHILIPPINES].

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Washington 1945. Stiff white wrappers, 114p., 15.2 x 22.7 cm 37 grizzly b.w. photographs, large number of affidavits by U.S. Military personnel,contents clean, firm and very solid. * * RARE FIRST & ONLY OBSCURE EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION OF JAPANESE ATROCITIES . . . IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD WAR II . . . THE DESTRUCTION & ATROCITIES RECORDED FOR POSTERITY . . . AS REPORTED WITH AUTHENTIC PHOTOS & AFFIDAVITS BY . . . U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL ON THE SCENE . .ISSUED BY THE [AMERICAN] OFFICE OF RESIDENT COMMISSIONER . . * This very RARE & OBSCURE item was issued by the American Resident Commissioner. It is a U.S. Official Government document. . THE CONTENTS: This work was an official report by the U.S. Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, documenting Japanese atrocities throughout the greater Manila area during World War II. . The report is replete with a huge number of affidavits written and submitted by U.S. military personal. Many of the e atrocities were documented also by competent ecclesiastical, civilian and military witnesses. . With official statements by leading clergy, extracts of captured Japanese military documents for the disposal of thousands of civilians by burning, battle orders for disposal of civilians, to kill all military personnel on the battlefield to be killed. . Statement by Carolina Corulna regarding Japanese atrocities committed in Intramuros, along with other statements and affidavits documenting Japanese atrocities, throughout the Manila greater area. The destruction of Manila &c. . A scathing document with grizzly photographs of beheading, burning and machine gunning of civilians. . In addition: Losses suffered by the Spanish community, destruction of Churches, lists of murdered priests & members of the religious congregations during February 1945. La Salle College Massacre. Japanese atrocities at Fort Santiago, Intramuros. Ditto Santa Clara Convent and in Intramuros. . Many photos showing living and dead victims of Japanese bayonetting, machine gunning, burning & execution of hands tied victims. . Including many "Confidential" affidavits & reports on the Red Cross building, with first-hand reports by the doctors, nurses and surgeons, while the Japanese burst in and began murdering all present. . All reports and affidavits were "subscribed and sworn" to U.S. military personnel, with their names, dates & signatures. . These documents & photographs are not for the feint-hearted ! . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is a U.S. Government publication, bound in stiff white stapled covers. . The front & back covers had some old tape mends, removed in the distant past, with a few neat mends on some page edges or corners, and the cover spine, now solid & firm. The contents are clean without any marks or issues. The work is firmly bound, no issues. . *. Seller Inventory # 45003601

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