Battle of Bacsil Ridge
United States
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George Barnett
Toshio Hayashi
308th Bomb Wing
2,000 unarmed support forces[1]
407 captured
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- Leyte
- Panay
- Simara
- Negros
- Cebu City
Luzon
- Mindoro
- Lingayen Gulf
- Kirang Pass
- Cabanatuan
- Bataan
- Manila
- Corregidor
- Baguio
- Villa Verde Trail
- Los Baños
- Palawan
- Wawa Dam
- Bessang Pass
- Bukidnon
- Cotabato and Maguindanao
- Davao
Naval operations
- Convoy Hi-71
- Shin'yō Maru incident
- Formosa
- Leyte Gulf
- Ormoc Bay
- Convoy Hi-81
- South China Sea raid
- Raid on Taihoku
- Action of 24 July 1945
The Battle of Bacsil Ridge began on 19 March 1945. It was one of the continued main battles of the 1944–1945 Philippines Campaign of the Second World War between the Filipino soldiers under the 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL, under the command of American General Russell W. Volckmann,[2] and the Japanese Imperial forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita, which resulted in the capture of San Fernando, La Union on 23 March 1945, and lead to the subsequent capture Bacnotan, La Union after two months of fighting between the armies and guerilla fighters.[3]
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