Battle of Bataan (1945)

Battle for the Recapture of Bataan
	Part of the Pacific theater of World War II
Date	31 January – 21 February 1945
Location	Bataan Peninsula, Philippines
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
United States Commonwealth of the Philippines;	Japan Second Philippine Republic;
Commanders and leaders
Charles P. Hall; Henry L.C. Jones; Aubrey S. Newman	Rikichi Tsukada; Nagayoshi Sanenobu
Strength
35,000 US troops, Filipino guerillas	2,800 Japanese troops
Casualties and losses
338 killed; 688 wounded	2,400 killed; 75 wounded; 25 prisoners

The Battle for the Recapture of Bataan (Filipino: Labanan para sa Bataan) from 31 January to 21 February 1945, by US forces and Allied Filipino guerrillas from the Japanese, part of the campaign for the liberation of the Philippines, was waged to secure the western shore of Manila Bay to enable the use of its harbor and open new supply lines for American troops engaged in the crucial battle for the liberation of Manila.

The Bataan peninsula's recapture also avenged the surrender of the US Army Luzon Force to invading Japanese forces on 9 April 1942.