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Native outrigger canoes meet up with a Coast Guard transport. [Please do not be offended by certain remarks, remember that these letters were written 77 years ago when people lived in another time and another world]. As the ships drew closer to Leyte, the American soldiers already on shore were…
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3 November – When the Japanese 57th Regiment arrived at Limon, Gen. Krueger’s 24th Division was on the other side of the mountain range. Rather than attack the lightly defended enemy positions, he halted his troops. For some reason, he was expecting a possible enemy amphibious landing and the US…
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Leyte, Oct. 1944 20 October – the X and XXIV Corps of the 6th Army, under General Krueger, made their amphibious landing on a 25-mile (40 km) stretch of coastline between Dulag and Tacloban on the eastern side of Leyte. At 0945, the 1st Cavalry went ashore on White Beach,…
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LST’s # 66,67,18,245,102 on 20 October 1944 While the Imperial Navy was floundering in their attempts to halt the persistent invasion of Leyte, Gen. Yamashita was in his headquarters at Fort McKinley on Luzon. ?He was receiving very little information from his own people and upon hearing of the US…
Originally posted on ITALIAN MARRIED TO A FILIPINA:
As those of you who have been following my blog for a while know, I speak Tagalog or Filipino (my wife’s native language) rather fluently. Was it hard for me to learn it? What does it mean to learn a language? Well, before answering this question I…
Of the 327-man crew, only 141 survived that day. Source: Wreck of USS Johnston discovered 77 years after its sinking at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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U.S.S.?Cod?(SS 224), was launched on March 21, 1943. under the command of CDR James C. Dempsey, USN. Dempsey had already won fame by sinking the first Japanese destroyer lost in the war while in command of a tiny, World War I-era submarine. It was on?Cod‘s third patrol, Dempsey’s last in…
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My apologies for yesterday’s glitch. I have no idea what happened or how. GP Cox Japanese/American Unity – Today ############################################################################################################### Japanese Military Humor – from: Kunihiko Hisa cartoon album “Zero Fighter 1940-1945” ? ? ? ? ? ? ################################################################################################################ Farewell Salutes – Marvin L. Anderson – Los Angeles, CA; US…
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54th TCW patch The 54th Troop Carrier Wing was established on 26 February 1943 [one day after the 11th A/B Div. at Camp MacKall] and commenced air transport and medical air evacuation operations in support of Fifth Air Force on 26 May 1943. advancing as battle lines permitted. The unit took part…
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P-38 in the Pacific Perhaps Colonel Ben Kelsey, a P-38 test pilot, summed up the war bird’s legacy best of all. “(That) comfortable old cluck,” he said, “would fly like hell, fight like a wasp upstairs, and land like a butterfly.” The P-38 was the most successful USAAF fighter in…
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