Philippines campaign of 1944–45
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The <entity_1>, Battle of the <entity_5> or the <entity_0> (<entity_5>: Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Labanan sa Pilipinas & Liberasyon ng Pilipinas), codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III (Operasyon Mosketero I, II, at III), was the American and <entity_5> campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the <entity_5> during World War II. The liberation of the <entity_5> commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on <entity_3>. United States and Philippine Commonwealth military forces were progressing in liberating territory and islands when the Japanese forces in the <entity_5> were ordered to surrender by Tokyo on <entity_4>, after the dropping of the atomic bombs on mainland Japan and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. By mid-1944, American forces were only 300 nautical miles (560 km) southeast of <entity_2>, the largest island in the southern <entity_5> – and able to bomb Japanese positions there using long-range bombers. Upon Admiral Halsey's recommendation, the Combined Chiefs of Staff, meeting in Canada, approved a decision to not only move up the date for the first landing in the <entity_5>, but also to move it north from the southernmost island of <entity_2> to the central island of Leyte, <entity_5>. The new date set for the landing on Leyte, <entity_3>, was two months before the previous target date to land on <entity_2>. On <entity_3>, the U.S. Sixth Army, supported by naval and air bombardment, landed on the favorable eastern shore of Leyte, one of the islands of the Visayas island group, northeast of <entity_2>. The U.S. Eighth Army then moved on to its first <entity_2> (April 17), the last of the major islands of the <entity_5> to be taken. By the end of June, the enemy pockets were compressed into isolated pockets on <entity_2> and Luzon where fighting continued until the Japanese surrender on <entity_4>.
['military campaign']