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Battle of Baguio
Part of World War II and the Allied Liberation of the Philippines
DateApril 26, 1945
Location
Result Allied victory, Allied forces liberate Baguio.
Belligerents

United States United States

Japan Empire of Japan

Units involved

United States United States Army

Commonwealth of the Philippines Philippine Commonwealth Army
Commonwealth of the Philippines Philippine Constabulary
United States Commonwealth of the Philippines United States Army Forces in the Philippines - Northern Luzon

  • United States Commonwealth of the Philippines 66th Infantry Regiment, USAFIP-NL

Imperial Japanese Army

Strength
120,000 Filipino troops
25,000 American troops
60,000 Japanese troops
Casualties and losses
4,000 killed
12,000 wounded
23,000 killed
30,000 wounded
3,000 captured

The Battle of Baguio was held of fought on April 26, 1945 in Baguio City are become one of the continue to most battles of the Philippines Liberation Campaign of the Second World War between the Imperial Japanese forces and the joint military force of the Filipino troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army, Philippine Constabulary and the USAFIP-NL 66th Infantry Regiments and the American troops under the United States Army's 33rd Infantry Division was clearing them around the parts in the city and sustaining initially to fought on Northern Luzon Campaign from the Allies against the enemy. After the Battle on Baguio from the Allied troops. While the site of the formal surrender of General Tomoyuki Yamashita and Vice Admiral Okochi. It is where they gave up the entire Imperial Japanese Armed Forces to American authorities at the High Commissioner's Residence (now the United States Ambassador's Residence) in Camp John Hay on September 3, 1945, marking the end of World War II.

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