| Battle of Davao | |||||||||
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| Part of Philippines Campaign, World War II | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Douglas MacArthur Robert L. Eichelberger Clarence A. Martin Roscoe B. Woodruff Wendell W. Fertig  Basilio J. Valdes Federico G. Ubuza Armando Generoso Saturnino Silva |
 Gyosaku Morozumi Jiro Harada Muraji Kawazoe | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
Local guerrilla units | |||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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108,000 total 38,000 men |
 15,000 men,[1] shore batteries, artillery and suicide boats | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| US: 350 dead, 1,615 wounded[2]: 635 |
4,500 in Davao City,[2]: 635 ~3,000 in Ising | ||||||||
| Thousands of civilians dead, wounded, missing and made homeless. | |||||||||
The Battle of Davao (Filipino: Labanan sa Davao; Cebuano: Gubat sa Davao) was a major battle in which American and Philippine Commonwealth troops including locally organized guerrillas fought the Japanese to liberate the city of Davao. The battle is part of Operation VICTOR V, an offensive operation against Japanese forces in Mindanao, and part of the campaign for the liberation of the Philippines during World War II. The battle was the decisive engagement of the Mindanao Campaign.[2]: 629