26-G-3554_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944. Coast Guardsman Aids Fallen Mate on Philippines Beach.  As they have in every Pacific invasion, Coast Guardsmen were in the first waves to hit the beaches of the Philippines when General MacArthur’s forces smashed ashore at Leyte.  They were there to fight and to help, as Coast Guardsman, Gunner’s Mate First Class Carol Smith is giving a drink of water to Private First Class Junior F. Happel.  Happel was wounded by shrapnel from an enemy 37 mm sheet as he approached “Red Beach” in a Coast Guard-manned LCVP. U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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