The Battle for the Philippines: General MacArthur's Forgotten War (formerly A Strike at the Sun) is a 4-part series that tells the epic story of tragedy, sacrifice, and

redemption in the Philippines of World War II. An entire nation and its 17 million

people hung in the balance of a merciless Japanese Empire and the promise of

salvation from across the sea, a salvation years in the making.

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By weaving individual characters through a tapestry of war in the Philippines,

The Battle for the Philippines (formerly A Strike at the Sun) tells the story of 1.2 million innocent Filipinos who were murdered by the Japanese war machine.