Tag: Battle of Leyte Gulf

• October 20, 1944 – Invasion of Leyte

  I posted this blog at Subliblog.com but unfortunately the reblog button refused to work. So here it is: Alligators Charge toward the Foe on Leyte. Official U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Seventy-five years ago today, MacArthur fulfilled his pledge and returned to the Philippines. Even with reports of…

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  20 Oct 2019

  Historical Events, Pacific War, WWII

  Battle of Leyte Gulf, General Douglas MacArthur, I have returned, I shall return, World War II

• BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF AND THE KAMIKAZE

  After landing in Leyte on Oct. 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur’s troops started the drive to retake the Philippine Islands. When Gen. MacArthur returned, the guerillas were in good number. Some Filipinos went underground and joined the guerilla movement. Some joined the American troops. A few days after the landing, one of the greatest naval…

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  22 Oct 2013

  BAHALA NA (Come What May), Philippine History, The Philippines, War in the Philipines, WWII

  Battle of Leyte Gulf, Historical Fiction, History Books, Kamikaze, The Philippines, WWII, WWII in the Pacific