now general macarthur was genuinely concerned for all the pows and internees on luzon. he knew also that there were still 2,000 internees imprisoned at los banos, and he knew that that fell under general eichelberger's area of command and so he told macarthur told eichelberger get those people out of there as soon as possible. well who did eichelberger give the mission to general joseph swing and his 11th airborne division angels general eichelberger wrote to his wife emilina. i am very keen about this 11th airborne division. they are small and number but they are willing to fight but there was a problem general swing accepted the mission wholeheartedly but his division his under strength division was still heavily engaged in manila. so he asked for and got permission to postpone the raid until his men were in a better place to effectively pull it off. that does not mean the angels would ignore the attorneys at los banos entirely for the time though general swings g2 henry mueller. remember he'd been collecting evidence and intelligence on the los banos camp. since dece

the second failure came almost immediately after this in his defense of the island of luzon. and you can see here the the red line on the map is designed to show the extent of the japanese conquest in the pacific and what they wanted to establish as a defense perimeter to prevent the united states from coming back. obviously pearl harbor is outside of their perimeter, but the attack on pearl harbor was destroy the american pacific fleet. and people make it so that we could not really come back and attack them anytime soon, and you can see the philippines there. just to the east of what is today vietnam? what was then french, indo china in very close to formosa. and so it became not surprisingly despite the fact that macarthur didn't think the japanese would attack the philippines it became an early target of japanese aggression right at the beginning of 1942. luzon is the northernmost island in the philippines and here it is down at the back at southern part is manila bay and where the capital of the philippines manila is located? macarthur essentially had about 12,500 americ

we're in fact engaged in northern luzon fighting the japanese there on. victory over japan day in mid-august 194 so was the return to the philippines necessary, probably not although there has been some argument about this. was it worth the cost. very high cost now when the war ended in the late summer of 1945 macarthur was chosen to host the allied or the japanese surrender ceremony on board the uss. missouri in tokyo bay so here he is sitting down at the table signing the surrender documents at that time. and so the war ended i guess in certain glorious way for douglas macarthur nimitz was there. william f. halsey was there. lots of other people who are involved in the war in the pacific were there, but it was a macarthur who essentially chaired the ceremony. now after the surrender of japan macarthur became essentially the ruler as supreme allied commander of the occupation of japan and he would serve in this capacity. areas with the emperor hirohito from 1945 until the end of 1950 actually his politics were surprising. very liberal and democratic he a

there's a flood risk certainly and the danger to fisherman on the eastern side of luzon otherwise it goes out of the way but it shows where there is seasonal rain is all the way from potential malaysia's northern sumatra up through southeast asia much of indonesia now is much drier than inflates rapidly becoming no longer the wet season. it's still there quite stormy in the finals of both pakistan and india most places dry in the pretty monsoon heat is showing. sponsored by qatar airways in the fire thailand's of home in mesopotamia where the 1st settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people who've depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution al-jazeera world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. order. how to get you watch out sara remind of our top stories this hour and israel says it's targeting missile facilities in syria in retaliation for a hit on its territory it says a missile fired fr

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been watching for a while now his close the philippines has come about as close as it's going to to luzon more or less and now it's very in a way out into the open water now on his left hand flank is west of like it has produce a pretty high seas 9 meter winds could well be battering the shores of luzon but as you can see is disappearing and take in the rain with it this is the general sees no rain now across the central philippines towards southeast asia down to of sumatra as well which means much in today's you're seeing far fewer showers now kalimantan is going to scattering the same is true in sort of way z. but if you're in java you can enjoy quite a lot of sunshine and the seasons obviously changed now in australia is cold enough at night now to get near frost level certainly up in the mountains it east in victoria and these are fronts coming up to the bite so it's a cold wind but it's still reza the warm sun so you got 17 in melbourne where you see the sun still $23.00 in sydney significant rain seems like to continue in sundry outbreaks in tropical queens and it's been a bit of fl

there's a flood risk certainly and the danger to fisherman on the eastern side of luzon otherwise it goes out of the way but it shows where there's seasonal rain is well away from potential malaysia's northern sumatra through southeast asia much of indonesia now is much drier than of lights rapidly becoming no longer the wet season is still there quite stormy in the finals of both pakistan and india most places are dry in the pretty monsoon heat is showing. sponsored qatar airways most people will never know what's beyond this storm. deafening silence it's 100000 forms how it feels to touch danger in 3 days. most people will never know what it's like to work with every breath is precious. with it is not an option. but we're not most people. more. book about to watch al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories the u.s. attorney general has launched an investigation into the minneapolis police department becomes less than a day after former officer derrick chervin was found guilty of the murder and manslaughter of george floyd. at least 300 people have been detained acros

shows it is a major storm but it's mostly over the water not kellie's edge effect has been felt in luzon and they still are it's likely to curl away there rather than going closer it's disappearing during thursday but it's still a dangerous it's the coast classic movie heavy rain inland given that's where all the energy is you think where we can fit in the gap beyond that was increasingly growing showers from west papua says the ways it to borneo that is true but the main rain is going north into peninsular malaysia into thailand there must have tongues is dry but that's not true for laos cambodia or vietnam were to be increasingly wet and the change of seasons become very obvious now in australia as a bite in the wind as a weather comes up from the bite out show me this is a proper frontal system using can be very cold as it goes through well relatively speaking it will fade it but once the wind's gone the sun comes out you still got 15 present degrees in melbourne and 18 up in adelaide as for west australia little colder it was but perth is how young to 25 what showers there are up in