Tomoyuki Yamashita Archives

With a spillway for the Wawa Dam before them, three American infantrymen manning a .50-caliber machine gun provide cover for an advance patrol.

Tomoyuki Yamashita

Ipo Dam: A Campaign For Water

By David Lash

In February 1945, General Douglas MacArthur was poised to begin one of the great battles of his career. Read more

During December 1941 exercises, men of the Argylls and Sutherland Highlanders take cover. The real war, in all its fury, would come soon enough.

Tomoyuki Yamashita

The Fall of Malaya: Japanese Blitzkrieg on Singapore

By David H. Lippman

The moon like a tray was sinking in the western sea and the deep red sun showed its face to the east. Read more

Tomoyuki Yamashita

On Saturday, December 6, 1941, a Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Hudson bomber on a reconnaissance mission from Khota Bahru on the west coast of Malaya was flying northwest over the China Sea toward the Gulf of Thailand. Read more

Tomoyuki Yamashita

Doughboy White: The Lost Battalion of Leyte

By Nathan N. Prefer

On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur redeemed his personal pledge to the people of the Philippines. Read more

In this vivid painting by artist Jack Fellows, Douglas A-20 Havoc bombers of the 312th Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, attack Clark Field in the Philippines on January 14, 1945. The planes use parafrag bombs against Japanese kamikaze aircraft on the ground at the air base near Manila. This was a follow-up raid to one that had taken place a week earlier, and both were intended to destroy suicide aircraft before they had the chance to damage American ships.

Tomoyuki Yamashita

Kamikazes Caught on the Ground: Raid on Clark Field

By Robert F. McEniry, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.)

General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander Southwest Pacific Area, kept his promise to return to the Philippine Islands when his Sixth Army under the command of Lt. Read more

Ipo Dam: A Campaign For Water

The Fall of Malaya: Japanese Blitzkrieg on Singapore

Tragic Surrender

Doughboy White: The Lost Battalion of Leyte

Kamikazes Caught on the Ground: Raid on Clark Field

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