bombers and fighters to attack the Japanese in Luzon. Homma wanted to use Cebu as a launching pad for the invasion of Mindanao island and secure whatever...

Visayas Islands that can be made bases for the invasion of Mindanao. Kawaguchi detachment was sent to capture Cebu and Kawamura detachment followed to sieged...

Cebu (/sɛˈbuː/ seb-OO; Cebuano: Sugbo), also called Cebu Province, officially the Province of Cebu (Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Sugbo; Filipino: Lalawigan ng...

Jones Scudder who died in 1995 and two children. Cebu Brigade Visayan Force Japanese Invasion of Cebu "Title: Irvine C. Scudder | Wars Voices". www.google...

Battle for Cebu City (Filipino: Labanan sa Lungsod ng Cebu; Cebuano: Gubat sa Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Japanese: セブシティーのための戦い) was a major engagement of World War...

Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo), is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According...

Japanese Invasion of Malabang (Filipino: Paglusob ng mga Hapones sa Malabang) was part of the Japanese landings on the western coast of Mindanao that...

the remaining of the combined American-Filipino force was forced to retire from Bataan to Corregidor. Meanwhile, Japanese invasions of Cebu (April 19) and...

the surrender of Japan 15 August 1945 though. In particular, during the Invasion of Palawan in March–April 1945, the two battalions of the 102nd division...

defense of the Philippine during World War II. It defended the Cebu Island particularly in the southern part of Cebu during the Japanese landings in Cebu island...

in these islands, some thirty thousand Japanese troops held the vital coastal towns including Cebu City on Cebu island and Iloilo City on Panay, among...

rifles and ammunition and from a complete lack of artillery. The Japanese invaded Cebu, the location of the Force's headquarters, on April 16 to 19, 1942...

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...

securing the help of local ethnic Chinese, Japanese and Austronesian allies. Legazpi himself chose Manila over Cebú as the Spanish base of operations due...

Cebu, also called Sugbu, informally referred to as the Rajahnate of Cebu, was an Indianized mandala (polity) monarchy on the island of Cebu in the Philippines...

destruction of the bridges and other public works in Cebu that had been undertaken by the USAFFE forces to delay the invasion of the island. The Japanese high...

Kawaguchi detachment invaded Cebu island almost the same day. Due to lack of artillery guns and ammunitions, Japanese easily set its foothold and dispersed...

Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the Japanese surrendered. Clay continued to Leyte, and from there to Cebu where she embarked elements of 182nd Infantry Regiment for...

civil administrator for unoccupied areas of Cebu, attaining the rank of Colonel. In 1947, he ran for Governor of Samar as a Nacionalista candidate but lost...

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no Firipin Senryō)...

ostensibly founded as a republic, its territory consisting of the lands seized in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; it was later declared to be a constitutional...

Bataan Battle of Corregidor Battle of Panay Battle of Cebu Battle of Davao Battle of Lanao Dutch East Indies campaign, 1941–1942 Battle of Badung Strait...

February 1942. In March, Kuma was assigned to cover the invasion of the southern Philippines, shelling Cebu harbor on 1 March, sinking two coastal transports...

by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major...

invasion of South Sakhalin Invasion of the Kuril Islands Kyūjō incident 1931–1945 Sino-Japanese War (September 1931 – September 1945) Japanese invasion of Manchuria...

and the company bought Cebu-based KZRC in 1940. Both were among the six Philippine-based stations operating prior to the Japanese occupation. Beginning...

Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War in the last few months of the war. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the...

beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, and Japan's naval air service...

the invasion was the recapture of the southern islands of the Philippine archipelago and liberating them from Japanese occupation. As the elements of the...

Armies during World War II. The Japanese launched the invasion by sea from Taiwan, over 200 miles (320 km) north of the Philippines, and from Palau to...