WWII in the Philippines

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Dec 7, 1941

Japanese bomb the Philippines, destroying many aircraft at Clark Airfield

Dec 8, 1941

Japanese troops begin the main invasion of Luzon

Dec 22, 1941

Manila declared "open city"

Dec 24, 1941

Japanese bomb Manila

Dec 27, 1941

The start of Battle of Bataan

Jan 7, 1942

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General MacArthur out of the Philippines

Feb 22, 1942

Gen. MacArthur leaves Corregidor and flew to Australia

Mar 11, 1942

Japanese attack U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan

Apr 3, 1942

U.S. forces on Bataan surrender unconditionally to the Japanese

Apr 9, 1942

Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 prisoners are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward Camp O'Donnell, resulting in over 10,000 Filipino and 600 American deaths

Apr 10, 1942

Japanese take Corregidor as Gen. Wainwright unconditionally surrenders all U.S. And Filipino forces in the Philippines

May 6, 1942

The last U.S. Troops holding out in the Philippines surrender on Mindanao

May 12, 1942

MacArthur returns, coming ashore at Leyte in the southern Philippines

Oct 20, 1944

Battle of Leyte Gulf results in a decisive U.S. Naval victory

Oct 23, 1944

U.S. Troops invade Mindoro in the Philippines

Dec 15, 1944

U.S. Sixth Army invades Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippines

Jan 9, 1945

U.S. Sixth Army attacks Japanese in Manila. Battle of Manila begins

Feb 3, 1945

U.S. Troops recapture Bataan in the Philippines

Feb 16, 1945

U.S. airborne troops recapture Corregidor in the Philippines

Mar 2, 1945

U.S. and Filipino troops take Manila

Mar 3, 1945

U.S. Eighth Army invades Zamboanga Peninsula on Mindanao in the Philippines

Mar 10, 1945

Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines

Jun 18, 1945

MacArthur's headquarters announces the end of all Japanese resistance in the Philippines

Jun 28, 1945

Liberation of Philippines declared

Jul 5, 1945

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Aug 6, 1945

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan

Aug 9, 1945

Japanese Emperor Hirohito delivered a recorded radio address to the nation, announcing the surrender of Japan in World War II

Aug 15, 1945

Japan officially surrenders aboard the Missouri

Sep 2, 1945

The Japanese commander in the Philippines, Gen. Yamashita, surrenders to Gen. Wainwright at Baguio

Sep 3, 1945

Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was hanged in the Philippines for the Manila Massacre and other war crimes

Feb 23, 1946

Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma, who directed the battle for Bataan, is executed for his role in the death march and atrocities committed in prison camps

Apr 3, 1946