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Title
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'Christmas Card' flier
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Description
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A flier issued by the Allied Forces during World War II for the Philippine Islands on Christmas day, 1944. 500,000 copies of this flier were airdropped on the Philippine islands. At this time, General Douglas MacArthur and the Filipino President, Sergio Osmena, had recently returned to the island. The flier is addressed to the Filipinos from the American Forces of Liberation and contains Christmas and New Years sentiments. 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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Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area. Psychological Warfare Branch
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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_012
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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
