How long were US troops in the Philippines in World War 2?

Answer 1

Accepted figures describe 46,000 casualties: 10,000 killed and 36,000 American military wounded, and 90,000 Filipino civilians in the Re-Conquest of the Phillipines.

Since the Mariana Islands had already been captured, isolating the Japanese in the Philippines, Vietnam, etc, it is accepted that the Re-Conquest tactically and strategically was unnecessary. The Mariana Islands (particularly Saipan) served as a forward air-field for attacking the Japanese home islands and supporting attacks on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Due to the island hopping strategy, the Japanese troops on the Philippine Islands , like many other Japanese-held Asian territories, were militarily isolated and played no role and no threat to the US efforts to defeat the Japanese on the mainland. Nimitz and other US Military leaders believed the Re-Conquest of the Japanese islands were a major distraction from the main goal of defeating the Japanese. The Re-Conquest of the Philippines required 1½ years, and has been generally characterized as a face-saving effort to rebuild MacArthur's shattered reputation. There would have been far fewer US and Filipino casualties if we had left the Japanese garrisons to surrender like other stranded Japanese armies across Asia.

Answer 2

The Philippines were a US territory from 1898, when the US took the territory from Spain in the Spanish-American War. In the pre-war years there was a plan to grant the Philippines independence, which was derailed when the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December, 1941. When the Japanese invaded they were opposed by American and Filipino troops under US command. The Filipino troops were much more numerous than the Americans. The Japanese succeeded in conquering the Philippines by May of 1942. US troops returned to the Philippines late in 1944, freeing most of the islands, but fighting against Japanese was still going on in the Philippines when the Japanese surrendered. The Philippines became an independent nation in 1947, but the US continued to maintain a sizable military presence in the Philippines for the next forty years, at Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay Navy Base, which were not closed until the late 1980s.

Answer 3

The Philippine War lasted for 3 years, a month and 2 days. It started on June 2, 1899 and ended July 4, 1902.

Answer 4

Yes. General MacArthur was in command of the American troops sent to the Philippines in WWII.

Answer 5

US troops were present in the Phillipines all through WWII, even after the surrender US servicemen along with the Phillipine people fought against the Japenese.

Answer 6

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