Topic summary
Philippines campaign (1944–1945)
Australia
(Naval support only)
- SWPA:
Douglas MacArthur- Ground forces:
Thomas Blamey- 6th Army:
- Walter Krueger
- Innis P. Swift
- Oscar Griswold
- Franklin C. Sibert
- John R. Hodge
- 8th Army:
- Robert L. Eichelberger
- Charles P. Hall
- 3rd Fleet:
- William F. Halsey
- Marc A. Mitscher
- 7th Fleet:
- Thomas C. Kinkaid
- Theodore S. Wilkinson
- Allied Air Forces:
- George C. Kenney
- Ennis Whitehead
- Philippine forces:
Basilio Valdes- Carlos Romulo
- Ruperto Kangleon
Luis Taruc- Task Force 74:
John A. Collins
- Southern Army Group:
Hisaichi Terauchi- Combined Fleet:
Soemu Toyoda- Takeo Kurita
- Shōji Nishimura†
- Jisaburo Ozawa
- Matome Ugaki
- Kiyohide Shima
- Sanji Iwabuchi‡‡
- 14th Area Army:
- Tomoyuki Yamashita
- Akira Mutō
- Shizuo Yokoyama
- 35th Army:
- Sosaku Suzuki†
- Takaji Wachi
- Gyosaku Morozumi
- Air forces:
- Kyoji Tominaga
- Takijirō Ōnishi
- Shigeru Fukudome
- Philippine Republic:
Benigno Ramos (MIA)- Paulino Santos
- Artemio Ricarte#
- Emilio Aguinaldo(POW)
5th Air Force
3rd Fleet
7th Fleet
Task Force 74
- 1st Infantry Division
- 10th Infantry Division
- 19th Infantry Division
- 23rd Infantry Division
- 26th Infantry Division
- 103rd Infantry Division
- 105th Infantry Division
- 2nd Tank Division
- 68th Infantry Brigade
- 55th Mixed Brigade
- 58th Mixed Brigade
- 9th Artillery HQ
- 8th Infantry Division
- 39th Mixed Brigade
- 65th Infantry Brigade
Combined Fleet
30,000+ guerrillas300
~6,000 militia
American
Personnel:
- 20,712 battle deaths
- 50,954 surviving wounded
- 52+ surviving prisoners (Army)
- 200+ unaccounted missing (Army)
- 140,000+ nonbattle casualties
- Army:
To 4 July 1945
13,106 killed in action
47,166 wounded (2,934 died)
96 captured (44 died)
349 missing (149 died)
16,233 total battle deaths - Navy:
To 1 July 1945
4,026 killed in action
270 died of wounds
40 died as POWs
6,484 surviving wounded (830 invalidated from service) - Marines:
To 1 July 1945
132 killed in action
10 died of wounds
1 died as a POW
238 surviving wounded (25 invalidated from service)
Materiel:
33+ ships sunk
95+ ships damaged
485+ aircraft
Filipino
Unknown
Mexican
~10 (5 non-combat)Japanese
Personnel:
- 320,795–420,000 dead and missing
- 10,000 casualties at Leyte Gulf.
- 12,573 captured
Materiel:
93+ ships sunk1,300 aircraft
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 American, Filipino, Australian, and Mexican campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.
The Imperial Japanese Army overran all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. Two years later, the liberation of the Philippines from Japan commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on 20 October 1944. While Manila was liberated after intense urban combat in early 1945, fighting elsewhere in the Philippines continued until the end of the war. The United States and Philippine Commonwealth military forces, with naval and air support from Australia and the Mexican 201st Fighter Squadron, were still in the process of liberating the Philippines when the Japanese forces in the Philippines were ordered to surrender by Tokyo on 15 August 1945, after the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet-Japanese War.