✦ History

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

Battle of Luzon

January 9 – August 15, 1945 · Battle site

Result Allied victory

The American campaign for Luzon from the Lingayen Gulf landings to the end of the war, including the destruction of Manila; Yamashita's army held out in the northern mountains.

On the map Overview Contemporaries

Axis

Allies

Japan
United States
Australia
Mexico
Philippines
Akira Mutō military commander Tomoyuki Yamashita military commander Shizuo Yokoyama military commander
Douglas MacArthur military commander Walter Krueger military commander Robert L. Eichelberger military commander

Strength and losses

Wounded
32,129

United States Strength 1,294

Mexico Strength 300 · Deaths 10

Units

Japanese 14th Area Army 103rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 105th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 19th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 2nd Tank Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 1st Division (Japan)
Sixth Army (United States) XI Corps (United States) 38th Infantry Division (United States) XIV Corps (United States) 37th Infantry Division (United States) Also under I Corps (United States) 40th Infantry Division (United States) 11th Airborne Division Also under XIV Corps (United States) 24th Infantry Division (United States) 25th Infantry Division (United States) 32nd Infantry Division (United States) 33rd Infantry Division (United States) 46th Infantry Division (United States) 6th Infantry Division (United States) 6th Ranger Battalion 201st Fighter Squadron Fifth Air Force

Battles 1