Up until then, Manila had been nicknamed 'The Pearl of the Orient'

Up until then Manila had been nicknamed “ The Pearl of the Orient’s Orient ” U.S. POWs were paraded through the streets of Manila after surrender in 1942 .

3,700 American civilians were also caught up in the invasion; they would languish in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp .

By the third year of Japanese occupation, starvation was rampant, killing some 500 civilians per day.

Men were bound and shot, bayoneted or mutilated en masse, while patients were strapped to hospital beds before the buildings were set ablaze.

Females of every age were brutally gang-raped before being systematically murdered.

Babies were tossed in the air and skewered on bayonets by sadistic Japanese who smeared the children’s eyeballs on walls like jelly.

Filipinos risked their lives braving sniper fire to fill canteens and bring ammunition and food to the Americans .

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