BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Snapped in mid-air, these deadly rockets fly from an LCI (Landing Craft: Infantry) toward Jap positions on the shores of Lingayen Gulf at Luzon in the Philippines. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army piled ashore on four beaches. In command of the attack forces was Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, below, Commander of the Seventh Fleet.

The Japs were not the only menace in the Pacific. Here, a huge aircraft carrier of the Essex class is tossed about like a tin plate in the heavy seas of a January storm. The ocean seethes and the atmosphere is blinding under the lash of a heavy wind.

GRIM BUSINESS ON LUZON

The Japs played the game of war for keeps, and few prisoners were taken. The above picture shows dead Japanese who were trapped in a ravine, and their American conquerors near Pozorrubio, Luzon. Below, two Jap tanks and their slain defenders litter a road near Binalonan. American tank destroyers accounted for the crippled Jap vehicles and their crews.

MacArthur frees an old friend
January 30, 1945

General Douglas MacArthur's rangers made a daring raid on the Cabanatuan prison camp on January 30 and liberated many Americans right from under the noses of the Japs. Here, MacArthur talks to an old friend, Colonel A. C. Oliver, who was among those liberated.

A B-26 of the Fifth Air Force swoops low to sow its deadly cargo in Pasaleng Bay, Luzon. Although two of the bombs explode wide of their target, one has already blown the bow of the ship, right, to bits. Japanese landing craft are on the beach in the background and one of the bombs was probably directed at them

Manila internees are freed
February 4, 1945

Hitch hike in Manila
March, 1945

Death in the streets of Manila
February 12, 1945

TROOPS CROSS THE PASIG RIVER

American forces smashed into Manila on February 5, but the fanatical Japs put up a bloody fight within the city, burning and pillaging as they retreated. They destroyed all bridges across the Pasig River but the Yanks swarmed across the river in assault crafts. Here they are shown crossing the stream in hot pursuit of the stubborn enemy


U.S. Eighth Army troops speed for Mindanao
March 10, 1945

Veterans of the 41st Division, Eighth Army, borne by Navy landing craft of the Sixth Amphibious Group, streak for the shore at Zamboanga on the southwest tip of Mindanao, main Jap bastion at the southern end of the Philippine archipelago. Prior to the invasion, the landing area was pounded for ten days by cruisers, destroyers and gunboats of Rear Admiral Russell Berkey's division of the Seventh Fleet and the final blow, bottom picture, was struck by three squadrons of heavy bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force. Some mortar and machine gun fire was met by the landing craft but none of the boats was hit and the green clad troops went ashore standing up. The 41st Division of Lieutenant General Robert J. Eichelberger's Eighth Army was led by Major General Jans A. Doe on a 1,400 yard stretch of beach.

The "Tiger of Malaya" is caged 
September 3, 1945

YAMASHITA SURRENDERS

On the day after V-J Day, General Tomoyuki Yamashita came out of the Luzon mountains to surrender to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio. The arrogant, six-foot-tall Japanese general was the commander of all hostile forces in the Philippines where Wainwright had been forced to capitulate in 1942, and also waged the brilliant drive on Singapore. The general is shown as he grimly enters Bilibid prison a few hours after signing the surrender.

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