Quezon Bridge, temporary rebuild. Destroyed by the Japanese in the battle for Manila in February 1945
The Jesuit Manila Observatory 1945
San Luis Terraces Manila 1945
Insular Life & Uy-Chaco Building, Plaza Moraga 1945
(Center) Intendencia building (Aduana), (right) Ayuntamiento (Marble Palace). Left buildings unidentified, on Soriano Street..
Santo Domingo Church on Beaterio Street, Intramuros
The Horrors Of War, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, 1945.
Filipino civilians killed by retreating Japanese troops during the fight for the city of Manila.
Bodies of Filipino civilians killed during the fight to reclaim the city from occupying Japanese troops.
Body of a child murdered by retreating Japanese soldiers lies next to another victim among the ruins of the old city Manila.
Exterior Of The Manila Cathedral, 1948
Franciscan Church Showing Severe Structural Damage, 1946
Exterior Of Santa Cruz Church, May 1945, Manila, Philippines
Body of a Filipino civilian killed during the fight to reclaim the city from occupying Japanese troops, Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands, February 1945.
Bayoneted Baby, 1945
Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Released prisoners in makeshift shantytown built in courtyard of Santo Tomas University, formerly used as a Japanese internment camp until its liberation by Allied forces entering the city, Manila, Luzon, Philippines, February 05, 1945.
Ruins of the Old Fort Santiago resulting from battle for liberation from Japanese during WWII, Manila, Philippines, 1945. During World War II, Fort Santiago was captured by the Japanese. They soon discovered the use of the dungeons and sent many Philippine freedom fighters to there death by either torture or execution. The bottom dungeons were also affected by the tide, so drowning in cells was not uncommon. The US destroyed the fort during the Battle of Manila in 1945 and was soon restored. The fort sustained heavy damage from American bombs during the Battle of Manila. It was later restored by the Intramuros Administration during the 1980's.
American soldiers kneel during outdoor Mass being conducted by a Filipino priest in front of pockmarked facade of San Agustin, Manila's oldest Catholic church during a lull in the battle to wrest the city from Japanese control. Manila, Philippines, February 25, 1945.
Philippines General Hospital showing serious roof and structure damage, Manila, Philippines, July 1946. PGH first opened its doors on September 10, 1910 with 330 beds, under the directorship of Dr. Victor Heiser. It was subsequently attached to the fledgling institution that would someday become the training ground of the country's finest physicians the Philippine Medical School, forerunner of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine (UPCM). PGH celebrated its centennial in 2007, one hundred years since the US government passed a law establishing it. The hospital has seen the worst of tropical epidemics during its early existence and the worst of the war in the 1940's. It is one of the very few Philippine hospitals that remained open all throughout the war.
Santo Tomas Prison Liberation. Five Emaciated Americans sit on curb outside Santo Tomas University, which had been used as a Japanese prison camp until its liberation by Allied forces entering the city, Manila, Luzon, Philippines, February 05, 1945.
Ruins of bombed out Manila City Hall, part of the resulting destruction caused by battles to take back the city from occupying Japanese forces, Manila, Luzon, Philippines, March 1945.
Ruins and Devastation of the Old Post Office Building in Manila resulting from the liberation of the Philippines during WWII, Manila, Philippines, 1945.
The University of the Philippines, Manila (Rizal Hall, College of Arts and Sciences) showing serious structural damage, Manila, Philippines, July 1946.
Aerial View of Destroyed City of Manila, 1945. Vividly illustrating the condition of burned-out, battle-scarred Manila, as U.S. engineers and thousands of Filipinos begin the huge task of reconstruction, in this aerial view looking southwest across the Pasig River toward hulks of sunken ships in the Manila Harbor. Tall building, left foreground, is gutted, Great Eastern Hotel, center, across river, is burned out, Post Office Building, extreme left, across river is Metropolitan Theater in ruins. Battered wall of Intramuros, Walled City, and destroyed buildings inside, occupies rectangular area beyond Post Office. Left is demolished Santa Cruz Bridge, repaired by Army engineers. The streets have already been cleared of rubble.
Aerial view of wrecked Manila City Hall & Philippine Normal University on the foreground, Manila, 1945. The battle for Manila was the first and fiercest urban fighting in the entire Pacific War, from the time MacArthur started his leapfrogging campaign from New Guinea in 1942, leading to the invasion of Japan in 1945. Few battles in the closing months of World War II exceeded the destruction and the brutality of the massacres and savagery of the fighting in Manila. A steel flagpole stands at the entrance to the old U.S. Embassy building in Intramuros, which was pockmarked by numerous bullet and shrapnel hits, and still stands today, a testament to the intense, bitter fighting for the walled city. In this category, Manila joined Stalingrad as being the host to some of the fiercest urban fighting during the war.
Bomb Falling Toward Manila 1945. This 2,000-pound American Bomb falls toward Japanese shore installations in Manila Harbor. The island in the middle of the Pasig River is Isla De Convalescencia where the Hospicio de San Jose is located near the Ayala Bridge. PROBABLY TAKEN BY AN AMERICAN BOMBARDIER ON A B-29 BOMBER FOR RECORD/DOCUMENTARY PURPOSES.
Large Areas of Destroyed Buildings and Ruins bear Silent Testament to the Savage FightingL done to Retake the City from Occupying Japanese Forces, Manila, Luzon, Philippines, February 1945.
