Navy LCM's (Landing Craft Mechanized) bring supplies ashore and return with casualties from Leyte in 31 October 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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280.Photograph. 'File Number: 46916 October 31, 1944 'Shuttle Service in battle of Philippines Navy LCM's (Landing Craft Mechanized) bring supplies ashore, return with casualties from the shore of Leyte during the opening stages of the Battle of the Philippines.' 31 October 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Leyte
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10.833
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124.833
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Landing craft--American--Philippines
Beaches--Philippines
Wounds & injuries--Philippines
Soldiers--American--Philippines