26-G-3565_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  Bearing down upon the Philippines.  It’s “tenting tonight in the old Pacific” as this Coast Guard-manned LST moves toward the Philippines under a mighty shield of American sea-power.  Tarpaulins are used to pitch crude shelters on the deck, packed with trucks and fighting equipment.   Under these shelters, the battle-bound troops and Coast Guardsmen escape the hot quarters below decks. U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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