26-G-3634_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  First American Flag of Liberation Raised on Leyte at H-Hour Plus Two Minutes.  From a Coast Guard-Manned LST, the sixth wave in the swift succession of amphibious thrusts against the beach of Leyte island advances with guns ready.  The American Flag, first to be planted by Liberation Forces on that sector of the invasion beach, was placed in the shell-torn palm tree at H-Hour plus two minutes.  U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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