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On June 14, 1945, combined Filipino and American forces triumphed over General Tomoyuki Yamashita's Japanese troops in the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon. This pivotal three-month battle, led by guerrilla forces under Colonel Russell Volckman, took place in the Cordilleras near Cervantes town in Ilocos Sur. The victory facilitated the entrapment and eventual surrender of Yamashita's forces in September 1945.
