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Title
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Proclamation Letter to the People of the Philippines
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Description
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A proclamation letter from General Douglas MacArthur to the people of the Philippines during World War II. This proclamation was probably airdropped to the Filipino people soon after General MacArthur's return to the Philippine Islands in October, 1944. The proclamation declares that MacArthur has returned to the Philippine Islands, along with the Filipino President, Sergio Osmena. The proclamation was intended to raise the spirits of the Filipino people and encourage them to sabotage the Japanese troops. 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.
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Creator
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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
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Date
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1944
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Is Part Of
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Psychological Warfare Branch Scrapbook of American Propaganda Leaflets (MS.70)
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Language
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English
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Identifier
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PUA_MS70_005
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Subject
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Leaflets dropped from aircraft
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World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Sources
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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Spatial Coverage
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Philippines
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Type
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Still Image
