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Within two weeks of ordering the seizure of Palawan and the Zamboanga peninsula, General Douglas MacArthur directed the capture of the isolated Visayan islands of Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol in the central Philippines.

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  • Battle of the Visayas
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  • Within two weeks of ordering the seizure of Palawan and the Zamboanga peninsula, General Douglas MacArthur directed the capture of the isolated Visayan islands of Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol in the central Philippines.
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  • 17000(xsd:integer)
  • 18500(xsd:integer)
  • 32000(xsd:integer)
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Date
  • --03-18
Commander
  • Robert L. Eichelberger
  • Sōsaku Suzuki
  • James M. Cushing
  • Macario Peralta
  • Rapp Brush
  • Takeo Manjome
  • William H. Arnold
Caption
  • --03-26
Casualties
  • 835(xsd:integer)
  • 1230(xsd:integer)
  • 1905(xsd:integer)
  • 14300(xsd:integer)
Result
  • Allied victory
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  • *
Place
  • Visayas region, Philippines
Conflict
  • Battle of the Visayas
abstract
  • Within two weeks of ordering the seizure of Palawan and the Zamboanga peninsula, General Douglas MacArthur directed the capture of the isolated Visayan islands of Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol in the central Philippines. With Filipino guerrillas controlling most of the countryside in these islands, some thirty thousand Japanese troops held the vital coastal towns including Cebu City on Cebu island and Iloilo City on Panay, among the largest cities in the Philippines. Aside from fulfilling his desire and promise to clear the Japanese from the islands, Gen. MacArthur wanted these two port cities as vital staging points for the expected large numbers of troops scheduled for the invasion of the Japanese mainland. Earlier, the United States Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff had told him to be prepared to stage twenty-two divisions for the mainland operation at bases across the Philippines by November 1945, with another eleven to follow by February 1946.
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