Training and educational exchanges are expansive. The depth of our defence cooperation was formalised through the historical signing of the reciprocal Status of Visiting Forces Agreement. Over the decades, those ties have deepened. The quintessential Australian value of Mateship and the Filipino spirit of Bayanihan form the bedrock of our defence ties. The campaign not only turned the war in the Pacific but forged a legacy of cooperation between Australia and the Philippines. In total, 4,000 Australian service personnel took part in the campaign and 92 sacrificed their lives. It was one of the decisive battles of World War II.įew people would be aware of the extent of Australia’s contribution to the campaign to liberate the Philippines: from the escaped Australian prisoners of war who fought alongside Filipino guerrillas in Mindanao to the strategic support of the Australian Government to General Douglas MacArthur who planned the campaign from Brisbane and to the Australian sailors who endured the terrifying ordeal of kamikaze attacks on Australian ships in the Leyte and Lingayen Gulfs. Over 350,000 allied troops with 4,000 Filipino guerrillas on the ground, supported by 300 ships and 1,500 planes descended on Leyte Gulf. That operation launched the Philippines Campaign of 1944 to 1945 for the liberation of the country. The Leyte Landings in 1944 was the largest battle in the history of naval warfare.
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