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Japanese invasion of Davao (December 20, 1941 to April 1942) Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) 8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942. Battle of Bataan 7 January – 9 April 1942. Battle of Corregidor 5–6 May 1942. Battle of Cebu 12 - 19 May 1942. Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945) 8 May 1942 – 5 July 1945.
Philippines campaign (1944–1945) General Douglas MacArthur, President Osmeña, and staff land at Palo, Leyte on October 20, 1944. 10,000 casualties at Leyte Gulf. [19] The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the ...
Battle of the Philippines. Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II. A burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised litters to carry fallen comrades at Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, 1942, following the Bataan Death March. Date. December 8, 1941 – May 8, 1942. Location.
230 missing, 5,069 wounded. The Battle of Bataan (Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Imperial Japan during World War II. The battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
250,000 total casualties [1]: 174. The Battle of Manila (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila; Japanese: マニラの戦い, romanized: Manira no Tatakai; Spanish: Batalla de Manila; 3 February – 3 March 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944–45, during the Second World War. It was fought by forces from both the United States ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf [5] (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.
Philippine Division, or from 1944–1947 the 12th Infantry Division, was the core U.S. infantry division of the United States Army's Philippine Department during World War II. The division was organized in April 1922 and primarily consisted of United States Army officers and Filipino enlisted men. It primary purpose was to defend the ...
The Battle of Baguio (Filipino: Labanan sa Baguio; Ilocano: Gubat ti Baguio) occurred between 21 February and 26 April 1945 and was part of the greater Luzon campaign during the Allied liberation of the Philippines at the end of World War II. [2] During the battle, American and Philippine forces recaptured the city of Baguio on the island of ...