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〕 Colonel Russell W. Volckmann〔〔 |commander2= General Tomoyuki Yamashita〔 Lieutenant General Fukutaro Nishiyama〔 Major General Noakata Utsunomiya〔 Major General Bunzo Sato〔 |units1= *Sixth Army * *I Corps * * *33rd Infantry Division * * *37th Infantry Division〔 United States Army Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon〔 *11th Infantry Regiment, USAFIP-NL〔 *66th Infantry Regiment, USAFIP-NL〔 |units2= *Fourteenth Area Army * *23rd Division〔 * *58th Independent Mixed Brigade〔 |strength1= |strength2= |casualties1= |casualties2=Over 2,000 killed〔 }} The Battle of Baguio occurred between 21 February and 26 April 1945, and was part of the greater Luzon campaign during the Allied liberation of the Philippines at the end of World War II.〔 During the battle, American and Philippine forces recaptured the city of Baguio on the island of Luzon from a Japanese occupation force. One of the last tank engagements of the Philippine campaign took place during the battle. Baguio later became the scene of the final surrender of Japanese forces in the Philippines in September 1945.〔 == Background == Prior to World War II, Baguio was the summer capital of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, as well as the home of the Philippine Military Academy. In 1939, the city had a population of 24,000 people, most of whom were Filipinos, along with other nationalities, including about 500 Japanese. Following the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, the Japanese used Camp John Hay, an American installation in Baguio, as a military base.〔 In October 1944, American soldiers landed on Leyte, beginning the liberation of the Philippines.〔 〕 General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the commander of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army, transferred his headquarters to Baguio in December 1944, planning to fight a delaying action against the Americans to give time for Japan to defend itself.〔 〕 In early January 1945, American forces landed at Lingayen Gulf. Thereafter, the American Sixth Army conducted two campaigns, one against the Japanese forces east of Manila, and the second against Yamashita's forces in northern Luzon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle of Baguio (1945)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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