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Japan–Philippines military relations

  • Battle of LuzonThe Philippines held a strategic value that threatened the United States when Japan captured it in 1942. General Douglas MacArthur oversaw the defense of the…
  • Philippines campaign (1941–1942)On the 6th of November 1941, General Hisaichi Terauchi created the Southern Expeditionary Army Group to seize raw materials in Malaya and the Netherlands…
  • Battle of Manila (1945)On the 9th of January 1945, the Sixth U.S. Army under Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger made an amphibious landing at Lingayen Gulf.