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There Were Children on the Battleground: Japanese and Filipino Youth in the Second World War: Japan and the Philippines Entrance into the War
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Japan and the Philippines Entrance into the War

This is an image of the cover of "Know your Enemy Japan" which was a propaganda pamphlet written by Anthony Jenkinson. This pamphlet provided Americans with some background information on Japan including an anaylsis of it's "strengths and weaknesses" of Japan.
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(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Edwin L Peterson World War II Propaganda, MSS 274, Box 2, Fd. 4)

These images are from the U.S. booklet "The Jap Soldier." This book takes a very negative approach on the Japanese and provides some insight into how Americans viewed the Japanese during World War II. The book begins with pictures of Japanese children and describes how even children were the "enemy."
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(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Edwin L Peterson World War II Propaganda, MSS 274, Box 5, No. 2)
On December 8, 1941, only ten hours after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor, Japan launched an attack on the Philippines. Japanese forces bombed American aircraft bases, destroying a large portion of the U.S. Airforce in the Philippines. By April of 1942, Japan controlled the bulk of Filipino city and industrial centers, including the capital Manilla.

This colored postcard depicts a agricultural area in the Philippines. This postcard is a "Color Card, Kodachrome Reproduction" by Mike Roberts Studios in Berkeley, California. The caption reads "Harvesting tobacco in the Cagayan Valley, Luzon."
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(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, Ellsworth Family photograph collection, P0142, Box 9, Folder 13, Image 7)
