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Dead Filipino Child, Bingas, Luzon

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IPTC Object Name Dead Filipino Child, Bingas, Luzon
IPTC Created Date 19450411
IPTC Author Jepson;J.
IPTC Author Title T5c.
IPTC City Bingas
IPTC Province State Luzon
IPTC Country Name Philippines
IPTC Credit National Archives
IPTC Caption Filipino child dead in a muddy ditch after April 9, 1945 Japanese reprisal against civilians. With the landings on Luzon by Sixth Army on January 9, Japanese troops, answering to several different commanders, increasingly took out their frustration over lack of food, medicine, transportation and munitions on the civilian population, which was already hard pressed by the occupation.