Lapu-Lapu City

The presence of oil tank in Opon made the town an object of Japanese raids a week after the outbreak of World War II in December 1941. The enemy planes succeded in blowing up two of about fourteen oil tanks in Opon.

A unit of the Kawaguchi Detachment of the Japanese Imperial Forces landed on the east coast of Cebu on April 10, 1942. Later, the resistance movement was organized by Colonel James F. Cushing, leader of the southern and central units, and Harry Fenton of the northern unit of the Cebu Resistance Movement.

The Victor II operations of the American Division led by Major General William Arnold landed in Cebu on March 26, 1945, and subsequently liberated the province.