This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Battle of Ormoc Bay" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Battle of Ormoc Bay
Part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II
Leyte campaign, November–December 1944
Date
9 November–21 December 1944
Location
Camotes Sea, Philippines
Result
American victory
Belligerents
United States
Japan
Commanders and leaders
Douglas MacArthur
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Casualties and losses
6 ships sunk
29 ships sunk 1 submarine sunk 1 patrol boat sunk
v
t
e
Philippines campaign (1944–45)
Visayas
Leyte
Panay
Simara
Negros
Cebu City
Luzon
Mindoro
Lingayen Gulf
Kirang Pass
Cabanatuan
Bataan
Manila
Corregidor
Baguio
Villa Verde Trail
Los Baños
Palawan
Wawa Dam
Bessang Pass
Mindanao
Bukidnon
Cotabato and Maguindanao
Davao
Naval operations
Convoy Hi-71
Shin'yō Maru incident
Formosa
Leyte Gulf
Ormoc Bay
Convoy Hi-81
South China Sea raid
Raid on Taihoku
Action of 24 July 1945
The Battle of Ormoc Bay was a series of air-sea battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in the Camotes Sea in the Philippines from 9 November-21 December 1944, at Ormoc, part of the Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battles resulted from Japanese operations to reinforce and resupply their forces on Leyte and U.S. attempts to interdict them.
and 17 Related for: Battle of Ormoc Bay information
The BattleofOrmocBay was a series of air-sea battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in the Camotes Sea in the Philippines from 9 November-21...
Ormoc (IPA: [ʔoɾˈmok]), officially the City ofOrmoc (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Ormoc; Waray: Syudad han Ormoc; Filipino: Lungsod ng Ormoc), is a 1st class...
the mountains from the OrmocBay area to meet the airborne regiment and assist its passage westward. On 23 December, after battling scattered Japanese defenders...
September 1945 Battleof Leyte: October–December 1944 Battleof Leyte Gulf: October 1944 Battle off Samar: 25 October 1944 BattleofOrmocBay: November–December...
Naganami. The convoy was attacked by aircraft from Task Force 38 in the BattleofOrmocBay. Petrel and Octopus also dove their crewed submersible Pagoo on USS...
superiority for a series of amphibious landings in OrmocBay—engagements collectively referred to as the BattleofOrmocBay. The Imperial Japanese Navy...
the establishment of new bases at Merauke and Milne Bay to cover its flanks. The Battleof Midway in June 1942 led to consideration of a limited offensive...
found USS Indianapolis, USS Ward, the wrecks of the Battleof Surigao Strait and the BattleofOrmocBay. In 2018, Petrel found a lost US Navy C-2A Greyhound...
September, effectively declaring naval war on Germany and Italy in the Battleof the Atlantic. In the Pacific Theater, there was unofficial early US combat...
and three battleships) Battle off Samar (25 October 1944, Japanese tactical victory, US strategic victory) BattleofOrmocBay (11 November-21 December...
out Japanese troop convoys, such as the Battleof the Bismarck Sea, despite aircover, and the BattleofOrmocBay. Naval strategy Commerce raiding Unrestricted...
longer has terminus on Guadalcanal." Battleof Tassafaronga Operation Ke Battleof the Bismarck Sea BattleofOrmocBay Evans 176 Coombe, Derailing the Tokyo...
191 were lost. In the BattleofOrmocBay, Kuwa was sunk and Take was damaged by the American destroyers. In addition to the loss of Cooper, Allen M. Sumner...