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#TodayinHistory in 1945, 75 years ago, General Douglas MacArthur announces publicly via a communiqué that the "entire Philippine Islands are now liberated and the Philippine Campaign can be regarded as virtually closed." (THREAD) #PH #WWII #WW2 
Context: After the great retreat and crashing blow on the United States by the Japanese w/ Pearl Harbor attack, the invasion of the Philippines & entire Southeast Asia in 1941, the Allied forces slowly gained ground in the Pacific. In October 1944:
The Filipino guerrillas and the U.S. forces, together, engaged the thinning Japanese forces in #PH, as the Japanese were pushed to desperation. The Allied forces landed in Lingayen and in Batangas to converge in Manila to liberate it.
