26-G-3525_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  The Stars and Stripes Come Back to the Philippines.  The American Flag returns unfurled over the American Liberation Forces that are shown here solidifying the epochal beachhead on Leyte Island in the Philippines.  This photograph, made by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer, shows the Stars and Stripes and a section of beach piled with millions of tons of supplies.  The American Flag had flown over the Philippines since 1898 until the Japanese captured the islands nearly three years ago.  U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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