Fall of the Philippines
| Battle of the Philippines | |||||||||
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| Part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II | |||||||||
 A burial detail of Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised litters to carry fallen comrades at Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, 1942, following the Bataan Death March. |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Japan
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Masaharu Homma
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 Basilio J. Valdez Paulino T. Santos Vicente Lim Alfredo M. Santos Mateo Capinpin
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 129,435 troops 90 tanks 541 aircraft |
151,000 troops 108 tanks 277 aircraft |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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11,225 - 19,000 4,130 killed 287 missing 6,808 wounded |
146,000 25,000 killed 21,000 wounded 100,000 captured |
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Douglas MacArthur Manuel L. Quezon Jonathan M. Wainwright IV 
(POW) Sergio Osmeña
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