The Luzon Campaign 1945: MacArthur Returns

“… does give the reader a good understanding of the grinding nature of ground combat on Luzon.” – Army History Magazine

The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war, yet hundreds of thousands of Americans and Japanese fought in some of the worst conditions imaginable for eight months to...