The Battle of Panama was a major campaign on the Panama Isthmus during 1925 in the Pacific War. Lasting for five and a half months, the engagement was an effort by the Japanese 7th Fleet and the South American Corps of the Japanese Imperial Army to capture and control the Panama Canal in Colombia, hoping to cut off American ships trying to supply Allied forces in the Pacific or assist the besieged American West Coast. While the Japanese initially disrupted canal traffic and devastated the Colombian Navy at Coiba Island and Montijo Bay, the Colombian Army, with Centroamerican reinforcements and thousands of Mexican and Brazilian volunteers, was able to stymie the Japanese advance and keep the city and its nearby canal out of enemy hands for three months. The Japanese Army's attempted feint