World War II

WE HAVE RETURNED

MEMORY FRAGMENTS

Frank Douglass (above) was aboard the USS Kadashan Bay off Luzon on January 8, 1945, when a kamikaze pilot slammed his Nakajima Ki-43 into the escort carrier’s starboard side. Three sailors were injured; none were killed. Douglass, who survived the war, kept the aircraft fragments at right and later donated them to the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Its defenders fought, fell, rallied, and resisted, all while subject to countless brutalities by the Japanese military. Yet the Philippines often

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