The Insurgency in the Philippines

4,234 Americans died during the fighting along with 20,000 Filipino insurgents and 200,000 civilians. Except for a three-year occupation by the Japanese, the Philippines remained in US control until 1946 when we gave them back to itself. From 1950 to 1965, this worked pretty well. Their economic growth was higher in the Philippines than it was anywhere else in Southeast Asia. And how many generations of now elderly Americans got their tattoos in Manila in that period? If we can get that stat, that exact stat.