| Description: | Hugging the ground while the bullets sing. 'Hug the dirt, Mates, or you'll get your back scratched.' Yankee invaders belly-flop into the sands of Leyte Island's beaches after rushing ashore from the landing barges of a Coast Guard manned invasion transport at the height of the beachhead battle in the central Philippines. Japanese snipers and machine gunners poured it at them as they hit the shore. In the background, a pair of LSM's have just been strafed. (National Archive 026-G-Box 70- 3566) |
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