Philippine resistance against Japan Paglaban ng Pilipinas sa mga Hapon
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
Propaganda poster depicting the Philippine resistance movement
Date
December 8, 1941 – September 2, 1945 (3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
Location
Philippines (Southeast Asia)
Result
Allied victory
Territorial changes
Allied forces successfully liberated the Philippines.
Belligerents
Empire of Japan
Philippine Executive Commission (until 1943)
Republic of the Philippines (from 1943)
United States
Commonwealth of the Philippines
Philippine Communist Party
Hukbalahap[a]
Moro people[b]
Commanders and leaders
Masaharu Homma
Shizuichi Tanaka
Shigenori Kuroda
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Jose P. Laurel
Jorge B. Vargas
Benigno Ramos (MIA)
Artemio Ricarte #
Wendell Fertig
Russell W. Volckmann
Edwin Ramsey
Marcos V. Agustin
Terry Adevoso
James M. Cushing
Robert Lapham
Ruperto Kangleon
Macario Peralta Jr.
Hsoo Ching-Cheng[3]
Luis Taruc
Casto Alejandrino
Juan Feleo
Gumbay Piang
Salipada Pendatun
Units involved
Empire of Japan
Imperial Japanese Army
Kempeitai
Imperial Japanese Navy
Republic of the Philippines
Constabulary (until 1944)
Makapili (from 1944)
Recognized Guerrillas
10th Military District
USAFIP-NL
ECLGA
Marking Guerrillas
Hunters ROTC
Cebu Area Command
Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces
Leyte Area Command
6th Military District
Wha-Chi[3]
and others... Hukbalahap Moro-Bolo Battalion Maranao Militia and others...
Strength
Unknown Japanese 30,000 Constabulary[4] 6,000 Makapili[5]
30,000 guerrillas in ten sectors (spring 1944)[6] ~260,000 formally recognized members of the pro-US resistance following the war[7]~30,000 Hukbalahap fighters[7]~30,000 Moro Juramentados[7]
Casualties and losses
8,000–10,000 dead (before the Allied invasion in October 1944)[7][8]
8,000 dead (1942-1945)[9]
Around 530,000[10] to 1,000,000[9][11] Filipinos died during the Japanese occupation.
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During the Japanese occupation of the islands in World War II, there was an extensive Philippine resistance movement (Filipino: Kilusan ng Paglaban sa Pilipinas), which opposed the Japanese and their collaborators with active underground and guerrilla activity that increased over the years. Fighting the guerrillas – apart from the Japanese regular forces – were a Japanese-formed Bureau of Constabulary (later taking the name of the old Philippine Constabulary during the Second Republic),[12][13] the Kenpeitai (the Japanese military police),[12] and the Makapili (Filipinos fighting for the Japanese).[14] Postwar studies estimate that around 260,000 people were organized under guerrilla groups and that members of anti-Japanese underground organizations were more numerous.[15][16] Such was their effectiveness that by the end of World War II, Japan controlled only twelve of the forty-eight provinces.
Select units of the resistance would go on to be reorganized and equipped as units of the Philippine Army and Constabulary.[17] The United States Government officially granted payments and benefits to various ethnicities who have fought with the Allies by the war's end. However, only the Filipinos were excluded from such benefits, and since then these veterans have made efforts in finally being acknowledged by the United States. Some 277 separate guerrilla units made up of 260,715 individuals were officially recognized as having fought in the resistance movement.[18]
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^ abTan, Chee-Beng (2012). Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora. Routledge. pp. 335–336.
^Hunt, Ray C.; Bernard Norling (2000). Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerrilla in the Philippines. University Press of Kentucky. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8131-0986-2. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
^Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Fascism Outside Europe, Columbia University Press, 2001, p. 785
^MacArthur, Douglas (1966). Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area Volume 2, Part 1. JAPANESE DEMOBILIZATION BUREAUX RECORDS. p. 311. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
^ abcdGordon L. Rottman (2002). World War 2 Pacific Island Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 287–289. ISBN 978-0-313-31395-0.
^Clodfelter, Micheal (2002). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1500–2000. McFarland & Company. p. 566. ISBN 9780786412044.
^ abClodfelter, Micheal (May 9, 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 512. ISBN 978-0-7864-7470-7.
^Werner Gruhl, Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931–1945 Transaction 2007 ISBN 978-0-7658-0352-8 p. 143-144
^Anne Sharp Wells (September 28, 2009). The A to Z of World War II: The War Against Japan. Scarecrow Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-8108-7026-0. "Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II". New Orleans, United States: The National WWII Museum. Retrieved July 23, 2019. "AJR-27 War crimes: Japanese military during World War II". California Legislative Information. State of California. August 26, 1999. Retrieved July 23, 2019. WHEREAS, At the February 1945 "Battle of Manila," 100,000 men, women, and children were killed by Japanese armed forces in inhumane ways, adding to a total death toll that may have exceeded one million Filipinos during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, which began in December 1941 and ended in August 1945;
^ ab"The Guerrilla War". American Experience. PBS. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
^Jubair, Salah. "The Japanese Invasion". Maranao.Com. Archived from the original on July 27, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^"Have a bolo will travel". Asian Journal. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
^"People & Events: Filipinos and the War". PBS.org. WGBH. 1999. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved September 2, 2014. Rottman, Gordon (August 20, 2013). US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theater 1941–45. Osprey Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 978-1472805249. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
^Lapham, Robert; Norling, Bernard (1996). Lapham's Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942–1945. University Press of Kentucky. p. 225. ISBN 978-0813126661. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
^Rottman, Godron L. (2002). World War 2 Pacific island guide. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-313-31395-0. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
^Schmidt, Larry S. (1982). American Involvement in the Filipino Resistance Movement on Mindanao During the Japanese Occupation, 1942–1945(PDF) (Master of Military Art and Science thesis). U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 11, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
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