Did US kill over 1 million Filipino by indiscriminate bombing during ww2?

Answer 1

No. Firstly, there was no "indiscriminate bombing" in the Philippines. Any bombing done was in an effort to harm the Japanese, though there was always the chance of error or mistake in aiming. One million seems high as a total killed by being so unfortunate, though perhaps that many Filipinos died of all causes relating to the war, as the Japanese were particularly brutal during the occupation. Its said 100,000 Filipinos died in the fighting to capture Manila. The city itself has no military significance, and in 1942 during the Japanese invasion US commanders had declared Manila an Open City and pulled their forces out, to prevent such a bloodbath. During the US invasion two years later the Japanese refused to follow this humanitarian example and more than 20,000 Japanese Marines remained in the city, and the fighting was house-to-house to free the city, causing the huge death toll among civilians.