The Snapshots in Time Collection

War-Damaged Hillside Town with Surviving Chimneys, Luzon, Philippines, WWII

War-Damaged Hillside Town with Surviving Chimneys, Luzon, Philippines, WWII

Only chimneys and a few battered houses remain standing on this Luzon hillside, testament to the destruction wrought during the 1945 campaign to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation. Such scenes were common across the islands as combat, artillery fire, and fires ravaged towns and cities. Project: 218435