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1941

December

08
- The attack on Clark FieldOn 8 December 1941 Japanese bombers from Formosa destroyed half of the US air force in the Philippines at Clark Field and Iba, hours after news of Pearl Harbor.
22
- The landing at Lingayen GulfOn 22 December 1941 the main body of General Homma's 14th Army landed at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon. Next day MacArthur decided to fall back to Bataan.

1942

January

02
- The Japanese take ManilaOn 2 January 1942 Japanese troops entered Manila, an open city. Luzon's defenders were completing their retreat to Bataan; Americans in the city were interned.
07
- The siege of Bataan beginsOn 7 January 1942 Luzon's defenders manned the Abucay–Mauban line on Bataan. Hungry, they beat off the first attack but fell back to the Orion–Bagac line.

February

March

April

May

06
- The fall of CorregidorOn 6 May 1942, after a Japanese landing, Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. Homma forced him to extend it to all US and Filipino forces in the islands.

1943

April

04
- The escape from the Davao Penal ColonyOn 4 April 1943 ten American POWs and two Filipino convicts escaped from the Davao Penal Colony on Mindanao. Their accounts exposed the death march.

1944

August

09
- The dispute over the road to JapanIn summer 1944 the Americans argued over whether to strike Luzon or Formosa. Roosevelt favoured MacArthur, but the Joint Chiefs decided on 3 October.

October

20
- Key eventThe landing on LeyteOn 20 October 1944 the US Sixth Army landed on Leyte. General MacArthur waded ashore and told the Filipinos by radio: “I have returned”.

November

05
- Kamikaze attack the carriersOn 5 November 1944 a kamikaze hit Lexington off Luzon. On 25 November suicide aircraft struck Intrepid, Essex, Cabot and Hancock.

December

1945

January

February

March

03
- The end of the Battle of ManilaOn 3 March 1945 the Americans took the Finance Building, the last centre of resistance in Manila. A month of fighting cost the lives of some 100,000 civilians.

April

01
- The capture of LegazpiOn 1 April 1945 the US 158th Infantry took the port and airfield of Legazpi on the Bicol Peninsula unopposed, opening the way to the San Bernardino Strait.

May

14
- Fighting in the southern PhilippinesIn mid-May 1945 the US Eighth Army and Filipino guerrillas fought the Japanese on Mindanao, Negros and Cebu. The heaviest fighting was around Davao.

July

05
- MacArthur announces the liberation of the PhilippinesOn 5 July 1945 MacArthur announced the liberation of the whole Philippines, yet on Luzon and Mindanao the Japanese held out until Japan's surrender.

September

02
- The surrender of YamashitaOn 2 September 1945 General Tomoyuki Yamashita came down from the mountains near Kiangan and surrendered; on 3 September he signed the surrender at Baguio.