The flag of the Philippine Republic was raised over the nation's embassy in Washington, D.C. on July 1946. On that day, the people of the United States, calibrating 170 years of independence, voluntarily granted complete independence to the people of the 7,058 Philippine Islands. September 06, 1950. (Photo by United Press Information Service).
The flag of the Philippine Republic was raised over the nation's embassy in Washington, D.C. on July 1946. On that day, the people of the United States, calibrating 170 years of independence, voluntarily granted complete independence to the people of the 7,058 Philippine Islands. September 06, 1950. (Photo by United Press Information Service).