· Washington, D.C.
Rescission Act Strips Filipino Veterans' Benefits
injustice
President Truman signed the Rescission Act, retroactively stripping some 250,000 Filipino soldiers who fought under the US flag in WWII of the veterans' benefits they had been promised; of all US wartime allies, only Filipinos were denied.
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Sources
- dutytocountry.org dutytocountry.org/project/explainer-13
- pbs.org pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/macarthur-filipino-veterans-movement