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| Battle of Naga | |||||||
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| Part of the 1944–1945 Philippine Campaign and the Pacific Theater of World War II | |||||||
 An aerial view of pre-war Naga taken in April 7, 1935. | |||||||
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 Elias Angeles Juan Q. Miranda Leon Aureus |
 Japan Undisclosed | ||||||
The Battle of Naga (Filipino: Labanan ng Naga; Japanese: 名が の 戦い, romanized: Naga no Tatakai; Central Bikol: Laban kan Naga; 9 April—12 April 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944–45 in Southern Luzon within Central Bicol, during the Second World War. It was mostly fought by guerilla forces of the Philippines against Japanese troops stationed in Naga, the capital city of Camarines Sur in 1945.
The three-day liberation was a collective effort of the chiefly local Bicolano guerilla forces, such as the Tangcong Vaca Guerilla Unit formed by Elias Madrid and led by Major Juan Q. Miranda and Leon Aureus, the Philippine Constabulary, and strategic bombing from the U.S. Army Air Corps to drive the Japanese resistance out of the Isarog district and eventually out of Central Bicol.
Background
[edit]In 1936, the province of Camarines Sur registered a substantial number of Japanese residents, most having established retailers locally within the City of Naga. Among the more prominent Japanese establishments were the Filipino Bazar and the K Mori icecream parlor, which civically served the most mongo con hielo. Most of the Japanese merchants donned their high ranking Imperial Japanese officer uniforms. Among them was Kubota, a palay agent of the Greek businessman named Ciriaco Chunaco; Suga, the owner of the Naga Bazaar; others were simply remembered as Kitahara; Berto Nishiyama; among others. In 1941, the mentioned Japanese nationals were detained in Naga's Provincial Jail shortly after the Japanese landings in Legazpi.
While the residents of Naga and the Filipinos in general were aware of expansionist Japan, the prospect of the Philippines being immediately dragged into a war hardly occurred in their minds. However, in December 1941, the local trepidation in light of the Pearl Harbour attacks, worsened by an assured retaliatory declaration of war, prompted a mass evacuation from all the urban centers in Bicol. The local populace of Bicol had initially anticipated that the upcoming war would last briefly, attested by the median two month's worth of stocked canned good purchases perused in Naga's stores. The erratic panic buying degenerated into the indiscriminate looting of local stores, retailers, and enterprises localized within Naga, also callously ransacking the Japanese-owned stores out of sheer spite.