Liberation of the Philippines Photo Album.

[Manilla, 1945.]. Oblong 4to. (26 x 34 cm). 38 leaves of black paper. Album of string-bound navy-blue leatherette containing 44 black & white photos of the Liberation of the Philippines and 5 semi-nudes (approximately 9 x 11.5 cm each), four to a leaf across 10 leaves (one leaf with photographs to recto and verso), remainder blank.. The majority of the photographs display gruesome scenes of violence, death, and destruction. Excellent condition. The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines or the Liberation of the Philippines, code named Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Mexican, Australian and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II. The Japanese Army overran all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. The liberation of the Philippines commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944. The United States and Philippine Commonwealth military forces were progressing in liberating territory and islands when the Japanese forces in the Philippines were ordered to surrender by Tokyo on August 15, 1945, after the dropping of the atomic bombs on mainland Japan and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.