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Japanese invasion of Davao (December 20, 1941 to April 1942) Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) 8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942. Battle of Bataan 7 January – 9 April 1942. Battle of Corregidor 5–6 May 1942. Battle of Cebu 12 - 19 May 1942. Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945) 8 May 1942 – 5 July 1945.
Philippines (and allies) Opponents Results World War II (Pacific theater) (1941–1945) United States Philippine Commonwealth Empire of Japan. Philippines (1943–1945) Allied and Commonwealth victory. Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred but Allied forces regain control over the islands; Fall of Japan's puppet state
A burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised litters to carry fallen comrades at Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, 1942, following the Bataan Death March. Date. December 8, 1941 – May 8, 1942. Location. Commonwealth of the Philippines. Result.
100,000+ killed. 250,000 total casualties [1] : 174. The Battle of Manila ( Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila; Japanese: マニラの戦い, romanized : Manira no Tatakai; Spanish: Batalla de Manila; 3 February – 3 March 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944–45, during the Second World War. It was fought by forces from both ...
The Battle of Luzon ( Tagalog: Labanan sa Luzon; Japanese: ルソン島の戦い; Spanish: Batalla de Luzón) was a land battle of the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II by the Allied forces of the U.S., its colony the Philippines, and allies against forces of the Empire of Japan. The battle resulted in a U.S. and Filipino victory.
Allied victory. Battle of Manila (1945) ( Manila, Philippines February 3 – March 3, 1945) An aerial view of the destroyed walled city of Intramuros taken in May 1945. United States. Commonwealth of the Philippines.
Wounded Japanese troops surrender to US and Filipino soldiers in Manila, 1945. The military history of the Philippines is characterized by wars between Philippine kingdoms and its neighbors in the precolonial era and then a period of struggle against colonial powers such as Spain and the United States, occupation by the Empire of Japan during World War II and participation in Asian conflicts ...
Philippines campaign (1944–1945) General Douglas MacArthur, President Osmeña, and staff land at Palo, Leyte on October 20, 1944. 10,000 casualties at Leyte Gulf. [19] 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 ...