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| Location Lat 9° 21' 30N Long 123° 17' 6E Sibulan is located at an elevation of 36' on the southeast coast of Negros Island in Negros Oriental Province in the Visayas (Visayas Islands) in the central Philippines. To the south is Dumaguete (Dumaguete City). Wartime History During 1942 occupied by the Japanese. By April 1945 the remaining Japanese on Negros Island were in the central mountains and the Dumaguete area. By the middle of April 1945, U.S. Army 40th Division reconnaissance elements advanced beyond Sibulan to the vicinity of Dumaguete. On April 26, 1945 the Americal Division, 164th Regimental Combat Team (164th RCT) landed at Sibulan as part of Operation Victor II and together advanced southward to Dumaguete and inland to the southwest and found no organized resistance until reaching mountains to the southwest. Japanese defenses in that area were not overcome until the middle of June 1945. On June 9, 1945 the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team took over garrison duty on Negros with Filipino guerrillas chasing the remaining Japanese in the in the interior. Dumaguete Airfield (Sibulan) Located to the north of Dumaguete, built prewar and expanded by the Japanese also known as Sibulan Airfield. References Reports of General MacArthur - The Campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific Volume I - Chapter XI Operations of the Eighth Army in the Southern Philippines pages 343, 345 (map), 347 Contribute
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