Letter to the Commander in Chief of the Japanese Military Forces in the Philippines Regarding Treatment of American Prisoners of War · Digital Exhibits

Title: Letter to the Commander in Chief of the Japanese Military Forces in the Philippines Regarding Treatment of American Prisoners of War
Description: A letter from General Douglas MacArthur to the Commander in Chief of the Japanese Military Forces during World War II. The letter was probably written soon after General MacArthur's return to the Philippine Islands in October, 1944. In the letter he states that the United States is aware of the mistreatment of American troops at the hands of the Japanese and that he will personally hold the Japanese military authorities responsible for these mistreatments. This is one item from a scrapbook of propaganda leaflets and related materials that was compiled by the Psychological Warfare Branch of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II. The scrapbook belonged to Colonel Karl F. Baldwin of the United States Army, who helped establish the propaganda program. It contains approximately 200 pieces of propaganda, mostly in Japanese, that were intended for distribution in the Philippines, Japan, and other nearby areas.
Creator: MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
Date: 1944
Is Part Of: Psychological Warfare Branch Scrapbook of American Propaganda Leaflets (MS.70)
Language: English; Japanese
Identifier: PUA_MS70_006
Subject: Leaflets dropped from aircraft; World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Sources; World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Spatial Coverage: Philippines
Type: Still Image

Item sets: WWII Propaganda Leaflets from the Baldwin Scrapbook; Pacific University Archives DPLA

Media: https://exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu/files/original/3847a8b72efe9999f17dad841412b61c.jpg