Battle of Morotai

September 15 – October 4, 1944 · Morotai Island

Result Allied victory

US and Australian forces landed on Morotai in the Dutch East Indies to build an air base for the liberation of the Philippines. They took the island's southwest, and scattered Japanese resistance went on until the war's end.

Allies

Axis

Strength and losses

Strength
57,020
Deaths
30
Wounded
85
Missing
1