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Philippines campaign (1944–1945)

  • 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 (1944–1945)By mid-1944, American forces sat only southeast of Mindanao, the largest island in the southern Philippines. Fleet Admiral Chester W.
  • Battle of LeyteOn the 20th of October 1944, General Douglas MacArthur waded through the surf onto Red Beach in Palo. He held a microphone aloft and spoke to the gathered…
  • 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.
  • Battle of MindanaoThe island of Mindanao offered very little inspiration for soldiers who would have to fight there. It boasted a long and irregular coastline, and the…
  • Invasion of Lingayen GulfOn the 22nd of December 1941, the Japanese 14th Army under Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma landed on the northeastern shores of Lingayen Gulf at Agoo…