A U.S. Army soldier plays see-saw with young Filipino girls following the Allied amphibious landings
A U.S. Army soldier plays see-saw with young Filipino girls following the Allied amphibious landings of the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf by U.S., Australian and Filipino forces. Between 6 January 1945 and 9 January 1945, a large force commanded by U.S. Navy Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf began approaching the shores of Lingayen in the Philippines. U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy warships began bombarding suspected Japanese positions along the coast of Lingayen from Lingayen Gulf. On 9 January 1945, the U.S. 6th Army landed on a 20 mi (32 km) beachhead between the towns of Lingayen and San Fabien. Together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Army and Philippine Constabulary units, U.S. forces were then able to penetrate Japanese defenses in Luzon island and liberate Filipino and allied prisoners of war near Cabanatuan in the province of Nueva Ecija and in Manila’s University of Santo Tomas, among others. Dagupan, Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippines. January 1945. -- source link
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