In 1944 and 1945 we killed more Japanese than you can count in the Philippines. Their one big attack ended up in a disaster for them, we decimated their navy and air force. Remember we were reading their mail.
We killed plenty..have you been to the cemetery near Las Paz there are at least 50K killed there we lost about 14k...
The point I'm making is that it was no cakewalk in the Philippines as Mac Arthur thought it would be, we had to take more than 50 islands between the invasion in October 1944 and the end of the war..not to mention the destruction of Manila.
Much of this in my view was due to Mac Arthur's arrogance..