Battle for Cebu City

Battle for Cebu City
Part of World War II, Pacific theater
US troops riding on an M7 Priest enter Cebu City
Date March 26 – April 8, 1945 Location Downtown Cebu City, Philippines Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States  Commonwealth of the Philippines	Japan  Second Philippine Republic
Commanders and leaders
Robert L. Eichelberger Ferdinand E. Zuellig James M. Cushing Basilio J.Valdes	Takeo Manjome † Rijome Kawahara †
Strength
14,900 U.S. troops 8,500 Cebuano guerrillas	14,500 – 15,000 Japanese troops
Casualties and losses
American troops 410 killed 1,700 wounded 8,000 sick	Japanese troops 9,000 Killed Est. 2,000 committed suicide Est. 2,000 captured

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The Battle for Cebu City was a major engagement of World War II that occurred between March 26 and April 8, 1945, during the second Philippines Campaign. The battle resulted in an Allied victory over the occupying Japanese Army and the liberation of Cebu City.

After launching their campaign to recapture the Philippines at Leyte in October 1944, the Allies followed up that victory by dispatching troops to Luzon in January 1945. A month later, General Douglas MacArthur, overall commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, began planning to take the rest of the Philippines. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army was then tasked with conducting a series of amphibious landings in the southern Philippines on islands between Mindanao and Luzon, including Cebu. Prior to the war, Cebu had been the Philippines second-most important industrial center, and it offered the Allies a harbor for future operations.

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