26-G-3543_Box 70_1:  Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944.  Filipino, 98, Gives Happy Home to Coast Guardsmen.  Coast Guardsman Carol Smith, Gunner’s Mate First Class, encounters a native Filipino, Paz Penada, 98 years old, in a village on the island of Leyte in the Philippines soon after American forces had driven out the Japanese.  The aged Filipino couldn’t speak a word of English, but his smile spoke plainly of his welcome for the bronzed Coast Guardsman.  They are in front of “Grandpa” Peneda’s home, where he slept through the naval bombardment that preceded the invasion.  U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.   (2015/12/15).
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