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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.
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).
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
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
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 ...
On 20 October 1944, troops of the United States Sixth Army under the direct command of Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, invaded the Philippine island of Leyte. This operation was the beginning of General Douglas MacArthur ' s fulfillment of his promise in March 1942 to the Filipino people that he would liberate them from Japanese rule .
After launching their campaign to recapture the Philippines at Leyte in October 1944, the Allies followed up that victory by dispatching troops to Luzon in January 1945. A month later, General Douglas MacArthur, overall commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, began planning to take the rest of the Philippines. [5]
The battle ended the almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines (1942–1945). The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign to liberate the islands. It is, to date, the last battle fought within Manila.