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Location Panay Island is located in the Western Visayas (Region VI) in the Visayas (Visayas Islands) in the central Philippines. Today, Panay Island is divided into five provinces: Aklan Province, Antique Province, Capiz Province, Iloilo Province. Borders the Sulu Sea to the south and west and Jintotolo Channel (Jintotolo Strait) to the north and northeast. To the southeast is Guimaras Island and beyond Negros Island. Wartime History During 1942 occupied by the Jpapanese. Starting in late 1944 attacked by U.S. bombers and fighters until early May 1945. American missions against Panay Island October 26, 1944–May 6, 1945 On March 16, 1945 in preparation for the American landing, artillery spotting planes are flown into a guerrilla-built airstrip in northern Panay. On March 18, 1945 after brief naval gunfire bombardment and support from U.S. Marine Corps planes, Victor I Attack Group (TG 78.3) under Adm Struble and the 542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment (542nd EBSR) lands the U.S. Army 40th Division, 185th Infantry Regiement, reinforced and less the 108th RCT unapposed in the Tigbauan area. southeast coast of Panay. By March 20, 1945 organized resistance on Panay ends with the remaining Japanese withdrawing from Jaro into the mountains. References U.S. Army in World War II - Triumph in the Philippines Chapter XXXI The Central Visayan Islands pages 601-602, 603 (map), 604, 607, 619, Footnotes 1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 19, 20 Contribute
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