Keywords: outdoor Lot 9431-22: First War Photographs from the Philippines. Historic Santo Domingo Church, famous shrine in the old Walled City in Manila, declared an open city and evacuated by American-Filipino armed forces, but bombed nonetheless by the Japanese, burns after the Japanese raid of December 27, 1941. This picture was one of the first pictures received of the war in the Philippines. The Philippines would fall in the spring of 1942 to the Japanese, and U.S. would not return until October 1944 Office of War Information photograph. (10/2/2015). Lot 9431-22: First War Photographs from the Philippines. Historic Santo Domingo Church, famous shrine in the old Walled City in Manila, declared an open city and evacuated by American-Filipino armed forces, but bombed nonetheless by the Japanese, burns after the Japanese raid of December 27, 1941. This picture was one of the first pictures received of the war in the Philippines. The Philippines would fall in the spring of 1942 to the Japanese, and U.S. would not return until October 1944 Office of War Information photograph. (10/2/2015). |