Regional1944

Battle of Samar

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Philippines

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Samar (1944), part of the World War II. United States defeated Japan.

Belligerents2

United States
Japan

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (peak, 1942)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Samar (1944). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-samar · Sources & methodology