Letter from the 33rd President of the United States, Harry Truman, regarding the role of the United States in World ...

Letter from the 33rd President of the United States, Harry Truman, regarding the role of the United States in World War II damage in the Philippines

Letter signed by the 33rd President of the United States, Harry Truman, regarding the United States' share of World War II damage to the Philippines, March 29, 1951. Addressed to Mr. John W. snyder his secretary.

In his letter, Truman writes that the committee appointed to examine the damage caused by the World War in the US Army in the Philippines has completed its function and that it will cease to exist on April 1, 1951. It seeks to regulate the technical issues surrounding the dissolution of the Commission.

During the Second World War, the Philippines was conquered by the Japanese Empire. During the war, a joint American-Filipino army led by General Douglas MacArthur was under siege in the Batan Peninsula and the island of Corjidor. General MacArthur, who was forced to leave the island after the surrender of the besieged forces, promised the Filipinos that he would return (the laconic trial "I will return" is quoted to this day and engraved on various sites in the Philippines). The period of the Japanese occupation was characterized by cruelty and the enslavement of many Filipinos. From mid-1942 to mid-1944, MacArthur and Nimitz supplied supplies and equipment to the Philippine guerrilla forces with submarines, so that they could harass the Japanese and take control of the mountainous areas and the jungle, which constituted about half of the archipelago's territory. Many Filipinos believed that liberation from the yoke of Japanese occupation would yield freedom and independence, guaranteed by the United States. In 1945-1946 the Americans again invaded the islands during the campaign in the Philippines. An American victory was achieved after fierce and bloody battles. The American forces left the Philippines on July 4, 1946 (the date set before the outbreak of the war, and was not influenced by it). The committee in question dealt with the many casualties the American military provided in its activities in the Philippines.

Harry S. Truman [May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972] was the 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953). As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's last partner in 1944, Truman inherited his presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of deteriorating health.

 As president of the United States, he led to Japan's total surrender and the end of World War II when he first used nuclear weapons. He took a firm line in the Cold War against the spread of communism and rehabilitated Western Europe. He took steps to promote the rights of blacks by abolishing racial segregation in the American army. I n the Israeli context, Truman met Israel a few minutes after its establishment, while he was the first foreign leader to do so.

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