Invasion of Lingayen Gulf

Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
	Part of World War II, Pacific War
	; The U.S. Navy battleship USS Pennsylvania leading the battleship USS Colorado and the heavy cruiser USS Louisville to the shores of Lingayen.
Date	Naval invasion, 3–13 January 1945 ; (1 week and 3 days)
Location	Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
United States Commonwealth of the Philippines; Australia	Japan Second Philippine Republic;
Commanders and leaders
Jesse B. Oldendorf ; Douglas MacArthur ; Walter Krueger	Tomoyuki Yamashita
Strength
875 + warships; 203,608 soldiers; : 1 heavy cruiser	Roughly 450–600 aircraft, 200 used as kamikazes; 262,000 troops on Luzon
Casualties and losses
United States; 24 ships sunk; 67 ships damaged; (Entire Luzon campaign and Mindoro Is.); (13 Dec 44 – 13 Jan 45) ; 8,000 dead; 29,560 wounded; (Entire Luzon campaign)	Japan; Roughly 450–600 aircraft lost; 1 destroyer sunk, 2 damaged; Lingayen Invasion ; 217,000 dead, 9,050 taken prisoner; (Entire Luzon campaign)

The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf (Filipino: Paglusob sa Golpo ng Lingayen), 6–9 January 1945, was an Allied amphibious operation in the Philippines during World War II. In the early morning of 6 January 1945, a large Allied force commanded by Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf began approaching the shores of Lingayen from Lingayen Gulf, on the island of Luzon. U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy warships began bombarding suspected Japanese positions along the coast of Lingayen from their position in Lingayen Gulf for three days. On "S-Day", 9 January, the U.S. 6th Army landed on a roughly 25 mi (40 km) beachhead at the base of the Gulf between the towns of Lingayen and San Fabian.

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