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Military history of the Philippines during World War II

  • 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…
  • Philippines campaign (1944–1945)By mid-1944, American forces sat only southeast of Mindanao, the largest island in the southern Philippines. Fleet Admiral Chester W.
  • Commonwealth of the PhilippinesThe Tydings, McDuffie Act received approval on the 24th of March 1934. This legislation established a ten-year transition period for the Commonwealth of the…
  • Japanese occupation of the PhilippinesJapan invaded the Philippines on the 8th of December 1941. This attack occurred just ten hours after the strike on Pearl Harbor.