Invasion of Lingayen Gulf

Belligerents

United States

• Commonwealth of the Philippines

Australia

Japan

• Second Philippine Republic

Commanders and leadersJesse B. Oldendorf
Douglas MacArthur
Walter KruegerTomoyuki YamashitaStrength 875 + warships
203,608 soldiers
: 1 heavy cruiser Roughly 450–600 aircraft, 200 used as kamikazes
262,000 troops on LuzonCasualties and losses

United States
24 ships sunk
67 ships damaged
(Entire Luzon campaign and Mindoro Is.)
(13 Dec 1944 – 13 Jan 1945)

8,000 dead
29,560 wounded
(Entire Luzon campaign)

Japan
Roughly 450–600 aircraft lost
1 destroyer sunk, 2 damaged
Lingayen Invasion

217,000 dead, 9,050 taken prisoner
(Entire Luzon campaign)

The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf (Pangasinan: Inlusob ed Golfo na Lingayen; Ilocano: Iraraut iti Golfo ti Lingayen; Tagalog: Paglusob sa Golfo ng Lingayen; Spanish: Invasión del Golfo de Lingayén), 3–13 January 1945, was an Alliedamphibious operation in the Philippines during World War II. In the early morning of 6 January 1945, a large Allied force commanded by Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf began approaching the shores of Lingayen from Lingayen Gulf, on the island of Luzon. U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy warships began bombarding suspected Japanese positions along the coast of Lingayen from their position in Lingayen Gulf for three days. On "S-Day", 9 January, the U.S. 6th Army landed on a roughly 25 mi (40 km) beachhead at the base of the Gulf between the towns of Lingayen and San Fabian.