The war's final 12 months witnessed increased atrocities on either side. In southern Luzon, Brigadier Basic J. Franklin Bell set up "focus camps" for your region's three hundred,000 civilians. Modeled on Indian reservations, the camps isolated the guerillas from their supporters. Bell then sent his troops to seek out the region's insurgents and wipe out their provide caches. Around the island of Samar, a bolo (machete) attack killed 48 in the seventy four American soldiers within the garrison…See More