✦ History

Part of Pacific War, Philippines campaign (1944–1945)

Battle of Leyte

October 17 – December 31, 1944 · Battle site

Result Allied victory

The American landing on Leyte that began the liberation of the Philippines, fought on land while the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought offshore.

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Axis

Allies

Other

Japan
United States
Australia
Philippines
Tomoyuki Yamashita military commander Hisaichi Terauchi military commander Sōsaku Suzuki military commander
Douglas MacArthur military commander Sergio Osmeña belligerent leader Thomas Cassin Kinkaid military commander Walter Krueger military commander Franklin C. Sibert military commander George Kenney military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
70,100
Deaths
65,000
Captured
714–828
Tanks
37–41
Guns
246
Killed
3,504
Wounded
11,991
Missing
183 disputed

Philippines Strength 3,000

Units

Japanese 14th Area Army 26th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) Thirty-Fifth Army (Japan) 102nd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 1st Division (Japan) 30th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 8th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Eighth United States Army 24th Infantry Division (United States) Sixth Army (United States) X Corps (United States) V Amphibious Corps XXIV Corps (United States) 11th Airborne Division 7th Infantry Division (United States) 96th Infantry Division (United States) 6th Ranger Battalion 32nd Infantry Division (United States) 38th Infantry Division (United States) 46th Infantry Division (United States) 81st Readiness Division Americal Division 184th Infantry Regiment (United States) 307th Infantry Regiment 382nd Infantry Regiment US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam Fifth Air Force
7th Cavalry Regiment