Luzon Campaign

Krueger's Sixth Army landed at Lingayen Gulf on the island of Luzon and began an advance on Manila. The XI Corps of the Eighth Army landed at Subic Bay on January 29 and cut off Bataan. Two days later the 11th Airborne Division landed at Nasugbu, and it and the First Calvalry Division advanced towards Manila. There was hard fighting for the city, but it was taken February 24, except for three strongpoints mopped up by March 3.

A parachute landing aided in the attack on Corregidor, which was taken after two weeks of desperate fighting. Landings were made at Legazpi in February, and on Mindanao, Panay, Cebu, Negros, and islands of the Sulu Archipelago in March. Fighting continued in northern Luzon and on Mindanao until July 25.