bigpigeon.us webpage WW II - Japan > Philippines Liberated > Southern Philippines, updated by RAC 7 Oct '19.
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By Februry 1945, the Philippine Islands of Leyte and Mindoro lay in Americn hands while Douglas MacArthur's Eighth Army was just beginning a long campaign to overcome Japanese resistance on the island of Leyte.
Lacking close supervision from Washington, MacArthur chose to use his Sixth Army, veterans of the war on New Guinea, to clear Japanese troops from the numerous islands of the southern Philippines. The southern Philippines campaign began with the invasion of Palawan on 28 February 1945 and officially ended on 4 July. As on Luzon, pockets of Japanese soldiers held out until the war's end. |
US Operations in Southern Philippines 1945
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Although the Eighth Army lost 2,100 dead in the southern Philippines, the cost would have been far higher if not for the many thousands of Filipino guerillas who fought alongside US forces.
Sources for the WW II - Southern Philippines webpage
- The US Operations in Southern Philippines 1945 map is from the brochure https://history.army.mil/brochures/southphil/southphils.htm
Pottawattamie County, Iowa WW II Dead - The Southern Philippines
(taken from the bigpigeon.us WW II Dead webarea)
(taken from the bigpigeon.us WW II Dead webarea)
- 07-04 - Philippines - Southern Philippines: (three dead, updated 6 Oct ’19)
† +Frits, Richard Yale - SN 37-697-896, US Army
Co. B, 99th Signal Corps Bn.; DNB (sic) 16 Jun ’45, Valencia, Mindanao, Philippines, walked into a booby-trap trip flare.
† Schroder, Dean Charles - SN 37-752-477, US Army
Co. E, 132nd Inf. Regt., Americal Div.; WIA17 Jun ‘45, probably in Cebu, Philippines; DOW 8 Jul ’45 at sea returning from SW Pacific.
† Talty, Norbert Leo - SN 30-153-755, US Army
Battery B, 213th Field Artillery Bn., 40th Inf. Div.; KIA 19 May ’45 Negros Is., Philippines; hit by rock kicked up by an exploding shell, died soon thereafter.