Japanese army fighter shooting down a american B-24 Bomber, Burma 1943

B-24 Bomber down

Japanese Army soldier in Occupied Manila, December 1944.

Occupied Manila 1944

In 1944, when the war situation was critical for Japan, Yamashita was rescued from his enforced exile in China by the new Japanese government after the downfall of Hideki Tōjō and his cabinet, and he assumed the command of the Fourteenth Area Army to defend the occupied Philippines on 10 October. The U.S. forces landed on Leyte on 20 October, only ten days after Yamashita's arrival at Manila.