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 | 1945-02-23 | Los Banos | US 11th Airborne troops and Filipino guerrillas free prisoners at the Los Banos internment camp. | Read about 'Los Banos' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Los Banos' | |
| 1945-02-03 | 1945-03-03 | Manila | Manila was the scene of the worst urban combat in the Pacific conflict and culminated in the total devastation of the city. The fall of the city ended almost three years of Japanese occupation in the Philippines. | Read about 'Manila' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Manila' |
| 1945-01-30 | Raid at Cabanatuan | US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas raid and liberate 512 POWs from the Japanese camp near Cabanatuan. | Read about 'Raid at Cabanatuan' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Raid at Cabanatuan' | |
| 1945-01-09 | 1945-08-15 | Battle of Luzon | The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan. | Read about 'Battle of Luzon' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Luzon' |
| 1944-10-21 | HMAS Australia Kamikazi | HMAS Australia is the target of the first kamikaze of the war. She is hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. | Read about 'HMAS Australia Kamikazi ' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'HMAS Australia Kamikazi ' | |
| 1944-10-20 | MacArthur Returns | Allied forces under MacArthur's command, covered by aircraft from Halsey's carriers, landed at Leyte Island, fulfilling MacArthur's vow to return to the Philippines. | Read about 'MacArthur Returns' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'MacArthur Returns' | |
| 1944-05-10 | USS Cod sinks Karukaya | US Submarine Cod attacks a convoy of 32 freighters. She sinks a freighter and the Japanese destroyer Karukaya before being driven off by a massive depth charge barrage. | Read about 'USS Cod sinks Karukaya ' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'USS Cod sinks Karukaya ' | |
| 1942-05-05 | 1942-05-06 | Battle of Corregidor | Japanese forces take the US held island bastion of Corregidor (a network of tunnels and fortifications that spanned the bay), giving them access to Manila bay, the finest natural harbor in the Far East. | Read about 'Battle of Corregidor' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Corregidor' |
| 1942-03-20 | I shall return | General Douglas MacArthur, made his famous speech at Terowie regarding the Battle of the Philippines, in which he said: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". | Read about 'I shall return' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'I shall return' | |
| 1942-01-11 | Japan invades Indonesia | Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies. | Read about 'Japan invades Indonesia' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Japan invades Indonesia' |
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