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I Corps Bolsters Retaking the Philippines in 1945
Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a ...
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Know before you go: the Philippines
the Republic of the Philippines consists of around 7,640 islands — about 2,000 of which are inhabited — that form an archipelago. The country can be divided into three main areas: Luzon (the ...
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Philippines Map
Military headquarters were removed to the island of Corregidor ... General MacArthur is ordered to leave the Philippines. April 9: U.S. surrenders Luzon. Bataan death march: the Japanese march ...
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75 years ago, US troops began the main battle of the long, bloody fight to kick the Japanese out of the Philippines
WASHINGTON — Seventy-five years ago, US forces began the invasion of Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines, thereby fulfilling Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur's 1942 pledge ...