"Every Filipino family was hurt by the war on a very personal level," one sociologist told the New York Times. This is out of a wartime population of 17 million. He had a sacred pledge.”īy some estimates over 1.1 million Filipinos were killed during World War II. But who would dare contradict MacArthur? An American veteran added, "MacArthur wouldn't let us bypass the Philippines. But as one Filipino veteran of the Battle of Leyte told William Branigin of the Washington Post, "There would have been no fighting, no damage, no casualties. Some scholars have argued that the Philippines could have been bypassed in a direct assault on Japan. The Philippines lost more than five percent of its total population (1 million dead out of 18 million people in the Philippines).
Of an American force of 300,000 that occupied the archipelago, 15,000 died and 48,000 were wounded, The hardest hits were taken by the people of the Philippines.
By the time the war ended, 320,000 Japanese occupation troops on the Philippines had died. The Philippines was the site of some of the most vicious fighting in the Pacific theater.
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