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Did 1 million Filipino Died from USA Bombings in WW2?
USA indiscriminately bombed Philippine cities trying to Liberate form Japan. Did it kill 1 million Filipinos or is that exasurated?
Could you also provide links please.
I am asking very specific question about "USA Bombings" which was during Philippines Campaign (1944–45) (Liberation). I want to VERIFY information I got from what I consider pretty reliable web source. I guess it could be a typo with extra zero 1000000 vs 100000.
Just from wiki....
"Allies shelled the city of Manila to drive out the Japanese. In this shelling, the city of Manila was totally destroyed." But propaganda state it was all from japanese.
"557,000 to 1,057,000" died in ww2. Yet typical japanese atrocity is 100,000. So 450,000-950,000 civilian death can be unmentioned causes such as USA bombings.
USA casualty was 62,514 vs Japan 348,925 so clearly death was mostly from bombs.
Logically, I can believe 200k-800k, so 1 million is not that off rounding numbers.
I am specifically looking for a **LINK** that have some number of Filipino death from "USA Bombings". If estimate is lower than 100,000, it is probably based on old propaganda than something like new released info from Freedom of Information Act and I am not interested. Maybe after 2005 would make it 60 year release of some truth?
4 Answers
- Mark MLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Between 500k and 1 million Philippines died directly but mostly indirectly do the war. The occupation disrupted the economy, food was redirected to Japan and people died of hunger. Japan rounded up hundred of thousands of prisoners who died of want. In the final battles, the Japanese slaughtered civilians.
American bombing, though crude by todays standards, would have accounted for less than 5%.
- cymry3jonesLv 77 years ago
I have found reports of a total of 900,000 civilian deaths. The lower figure of an estimated 100,000 appears to apply to civilian deaths when the USA bombed Manilla in 1945.
- Anonymous7 years ago
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- AdjoranLv 47 years ago
No, that's ridiculous.
The total civilian casualties in the Phillipines in WWII was about 91,000, mostly in 1941-42.