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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Ruins in the Walled City, Manilla

From the Crown Lane archive.  I cannot identify the handwriting, but more of that later.  And I do not know of any relatives who had any connection with Manilla. Top to bottom and left to right the comments read:
"Damaged Catholic church walled city - Manila" (sic)
"Ruins in walled city, Manila"
"Ruined church - Manila. Many of these buildings were unnecessarily destroyed by the Japs"
Presumably this damage was caused during the Manilla massacre of 1945 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Massacre