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(top) The Japanese Army attacks Iloilo City. The 3rd Company Takahashi Unit of the Seno Battalion. (Old Oton Church)

(bottom) Sugar warehouses, set on fire by Filipino soldiers, burn as a Japanese soldier watches Iloilo Harbor.




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(top) The Japanese Army proclaims the establishment of military administration over the whole island of Panay. A parade was held in Iloilo City.

(center left) Propaganda activity at Jaro Plaza.

(center right) Ruins of Iloilo City resulting from the USAFFE's scorched-earth tactics around Sta. Teresita church.

(bottom) Surrender at Calinog, Iloilo, of the commanding general of the USAFFE's 61st Division, Colonel Albert Christie (2nd from right), Maj. Fukui is 2nd from left, and to his right (3rd from left) is Col. Yasumi Seno, commander of the Seno Unit).




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(above) Weapons from the Tozuka Unit's 3rd Company displayed at the Museo Iloilo.
Samples of military money [gumpyo = 'Mickey Mouse' money] may be seen at the back.

(center, left) JA tochika [pillbox] still standing along the Suage River in Janiuay, Iloilo

(center right) Japanese flag and samurai sword exhibited in the Museo Iloilo. On the right is an aerial bomb

(bottom) Tomb of Francisco Offemaria. Behind it is the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In the background are the graves of Filipino guerrillas killed in action at what is now the Balantang Memorial Cemetery National Shrine (BMCNS) in Jaro, Iloilo City.




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(upper left) Remains of a JA tochika, still with bullet holes in Pavia, Iloilo

(top right) Bone recovering operations at the site of the mass suicide of the Japanese residents (hojin) at Sitio Suyac in Barangay Tigbauan, Maasin, Iloilo

(center) Battle flag of Soichi Mizuno, a soldier of the Transport Unit of the 102nd Division who was killed in action, in possession of Patricio Confesor

(bottom) Recovered remains of Japanese soldiers in the vicinity of Pavia, Iloilo




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Reference Map of the Philippines