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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 American, Filipino, Australian, and Mexican campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.
Battle of the Philippine Sea 19–20 June 1944; Battle of Leyte 17 October – 26 December 1944; Philippines campaign (1944–45) 20 October 1944 – 15 August 1945; Battle of Leyte Gulf 23–26 October 1944; Battle of Ormoc Bay 11 November – 21 December 1944; Battle of Mindoro 13–16 December 1944; Battle of Kirang Pass 1945
Articles relating to the Philippines campaign (1944-1945), the American, Mexican, Australian and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II
September 18 – Filipino forces under the 9th Samar Company of the Philippine Constabulary were ambushed at Barrio Cansumangkay in Balangiga, Samar and attack Japanese Imperial forces. September 21 – US forces raids Manila. September 26 – Tomoyuki Yamashita appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1944–1945).
Battle of Luzon; Part of the Philippines campaign (1944–1945) of World War II: A squad leader points out a suspected Japanese position at the edge of Balete Pass, near Baguio, where troops of the 25th Infantry Division are in fierce combat with Japanese forces. 23 March 1945.
For the invasion of Luzon, U.S. forces needed air bases that were closer to the northern island than Leyte Island.Mindoro was the logical choice. Located not too far south of Luzon, and being about one-half the size of New Jersey, Mindoro is mostly covered by hills and mountains, with a few narrow plains along its seacoasts.
The Philippines campaign (Filipino: Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Spanish: Campaña en las Filipinas del Ejercito Japonés, Japanese: フィリピンの戦い, romanized: Firipin no Tatakai), also known as the Battle of the Philippines (Filipino: Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the American territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan and the defense ...
On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur's forces landed on Leyte, paving the way for the liberation of the Philippines. Several months later, as the Americans consolidated their forces to prepare for the main invasion of Luzon , nearly 150 Americans were executed by their Japanese captors on December 14, 1944 at the Puerto Princesa ...