Troops unload from LCMs on Panay
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Gift of Mary Noble, from The collection of the National WWII Museum
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Troops unload from LCMs [Landing Craft Mechanized]. "File Number: 310128. Released: April 9, 1945. Panay 'incident' avenged as U.S. forces advance in Philippines. Seizing another strategic objective in the Philippines campaign-- and in a sense 'avenging' the Jap [Japanese] sinking of the Navy gunboat USS Panay in China on December 10, 1937 U.S. Forces invade the island of Panay on March 18, 1945. The defenders were crushed within 60 hours. Pouring down the ramp of a landing craft, soldiers hit the beach on Panay." 18 March 1945
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Official U.S. Navy Photographs collected by navy veteran John R. Noble, who served in the Pacific on the USS Castor and the USS Fletcher during World War II.
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Panay
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11.250
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122.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Philippines
Beaches--Philippines
Landing craft--American--Philippines