フィリピン中央部にあるレイテ島。緑豊かな熱帯の島は、太平洋戦争の激戦地だった。1942年に日本軍が占領していたが、71年前の1944年10月20日、米軍のダグラス・マッカーサー大将が砂浜に上陸。戦いの口火が切られた。
「私は戻ってくる（I shall retuen）」という言葉を現実にした彼は「私はマッカーサー大将である。フィリピン市民諸君、私は帰ってきた」と、戦場のスピーカーを通して演説した。
太平洋戦争の大きな転換点となったレイテ島の戦い。終戦までに、米軍は7個師団20万人以上の兵力を上陸させた。日本軍は充分な準備もないまま約8万人の将兵が、ほぼ全滅した。血みどろの戦いを、米軍側が撮影した写真を中心にスライドショーにしてみた。
レイテ島の戦い
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フィリピンへの帰還を果たしたマッカーサー元帥（10月20日） (credit:Wikimedia)
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レイテ島に上陸中の米軍 (credit:Wikimedia)
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レイテ作戦中の米軍の歩兵 (credit:Wikimedia)
WWII U.S. INVASION LEYTE ISLAND(04 of72)
In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, two Coast Guard-manned landing ships open their jaws as U.S. soldiers line up to build sandbag piers out to the ramps, on Leyte island, Philippines, in November 1944. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Philippine Islands Leyte U.S. Debark(05 of72)
Passing sandbags hand-to-hand, American troops build ramps to the open bow doors of a line of coast guard manned LSTÃs at the beach of Leyte Island in the central Philippines on Nov. 14, 1944, as supplies are brought in to support invading forces. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Photo prise en octobre 1944 aux Philippi(06 of72)
Photo prise en octobre 1944 aux Philippines de soldats américains débarquant sur l\'île de Leyte lors de la bataille engagée contre les Japonais. Les Américains ont réussi leur débarquement sous le commandement du général Mac Arthur et défait la marine japonaise.\nPicture dated October 1944 showing American soldiers landing on the central Philippine island of Leyte during the battle against japanese troops. American soldiers have severely depleted the Japanese fleet and successfully landed on the beach under the command of General Douglas Mac-Arthur. (Photo credit should read -/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
Battle of Leyte(07 of72)
A Photograph of Coast Guard-Manned Landing Barges Loaded with Troops Watching as American and Japanese Planes Duel Above, circa October 1944. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images) (credit:Fotosearch via Getty Images)
WWII Philippines Leyte(08 of72)
Army engineers rebuild a bridge on Leyte in the Philippines on Nov. 3, 1944 after it was destroyed by the retreating Japanese. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
World War II Philippines US invasion Leyte Island(09 of72)
Mother Earth never feels so good as when Japanese sniper and machine gun bullets sing overhead. U.S. troops burrow into the sand on the beach at Leyte Island, in the central Philippines on Nov. 13, 1944, after having waded ashore from landing barges during the height of the invasion operations. It?s ?Hug the Dirt,? as they prepare to move inland to offer the Japanese the same treatment. Two landing craft stand in the background. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japan The Real Kamikaze(10 of72)
FILE - In this October, 1944 file photo, a Japanese Kamikaze fighter is shown swooping down on a U.S. warship in the three-day Battle of Leyte Gulf. The kamikaze, âthe divine wind,â were ordered to fly their planes into certain death. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey and data kept at the library at Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo estimate that about 2,500 of them died during the war. Some history books give higher numbers. About one in every five kamikaze planes managed to hit an enemy target. (AP Photo/File) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Battle of Leyte(11 of72)
American warships use smoke screens to impede Japanese air attacks in Leyte Gulf during the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines, December 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
WWII Philippines Leyte(12 of72)
Smoke and flames billow from two P-38 fighter planes after they collided on a Leyte island airstrip in the Philippines on Nov. 16, 1944. The pilot of one of the planes was rescued. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Photo prise en octobre 1944 sur l'île de(13 of72)
Photo prise en octobre 1944 sur l\'île de Leyte aux Philippines d\'une attaque sur des bateaux japonais pendant la bataille engagée entre les Américains et les Japonais dans le golfe de Leyte. Les Américains ont réussi leur débarquement sous le commandement du général Mac Arthur et défait la marine japonaise.\nPicture dated October 1944 showing an attack on japanese boats during the battle between american and japanese troops on the central Philippine island of Leyte. American soldiers have severely depleted the Japanese fleet and successfully landed on the beach under the command of General Douglas Mac-Arthur. (Photo credit should read -/AFP/GettyImages) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
World War II Philippines US invasion Leyte Island(14 of72)
U.S. troops in the first wave head toward the Leyte Island beaches in the Philippine invasion operations announced on October 20. Smoke from fires started by the heavy pre-invasion naval bombardment and from LCI rocketships billows skyward on Nov. 1, 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF(15 of72)
Aboard an unknown U.S. Navy carrier crewmen watch from a distance as the USS Gambier Bay takes a direct hit during a battle off the coast of Samar, in the Philippine Sea, on October 25, 1944. The carrier was overwhelmed by heavy Japanese warships and eventually sunk after numerous hits by 8-inch enemy cruiser shell fire. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF(16 of72)
Seen from the USS St Lo, partially in the foreground, ships of the U.S. fleet lay a smoke-screen as they maneuver for position, during an attack from Japanese warships, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, on October 25, 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Bombardment Of Leyte(17 of72)
American troops watch columns of smoke rising from the coast of Leyte province in the Philippines after preliminary bombardments leading to the American landings on the first day of the Battle of Leyte, 20th October 1944. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Number One Trophy(18 of72)
December 1944: Grinning US soldiers proudly hold a Japanese battle flag which they tore down from its pole after capturing the beach on which it was placed on Leyte Island. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
WWII Philippines(19 of72)
Despite heavy rain a mortar squad of the 7th Infantry Division fires an 81mm mortar at the Japanese on Leyte Island, Philippines on Nov. 11, 1944. Typhoon and torrential rains have hampered American forces in the battle to oust the Japanese. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Street-Fighting In Leyte(20 of72)
American troops take cover during street-fighting in the bomb-damaged village of Pawing in Leyte province in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte, 1st November 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Airstrip Workers(21 of72)
6th November 1944: A group of Chinese who had been living on the island of Leyte under Japanese rule happily volunteer to assist the Americans construct an airstrip on the island after its capture by US Marines. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
7th Division In Leyte(22 of72)
American troops of the 7th Division marching through a bomb-damaged village in Leyte province in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte, 13th November 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Leyte Casualty(23 of72)
An American casualty is stretchered away as other troops move up to the front lines during the Battle of Leyte in Leyte province in the Philippines, 21st November 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
World War Ii: American Infantry On The Leyte Island 1945(24 of72)
PHILIPPINES - CIRCA 1945: On January 1945, American Soldiers Struggle To Progress Through The Jungle In The Island Of Leyte, In The Philippines, Occupied By The Japanese. American Troops, Led By General Mac Arthur Disembarked Onto The Island On October 20Th 1944. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) (credit:Keystone-France via Getty Images)
WWII FILIPINO GUERRILLA FIGHTERS(25 of72)
Filipino guerrilla fighters are seen as they close in on Japanese snipers hidden in a village hut, at Carigaria on Leyte island, Philippines, in November 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII LEYTE ISLAND MEDIC AYRES(26 of72)
Hollywood actor Lew Ayres, a conscientious objector who is a noncombatant medic in the battlefield in the South Pacific, treats the foot of a Filipino requiring medical attention on Leyte Island in the Philippines, Nov. 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. FILIPINO GUERRILLAS(27 of72)
Filipino guerrillas under Capt. Jesus Omeda\'s command come into a 7th Division command post for a conference with Maj. A.V. Arnold from their positions in the hills on Leyte Island, Philippines, during World War II in Nov. 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(28 of72)
Advancing though a swamp on Leyte Island, in the Philippines on Nov. 1, 1944, American soldiers grab comrade by the arms and pull him from the mire as they press their attack against the Japanese. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Maj. Richard Bong(29 of72)
Maj. Richard Bong (left) Popular, Wis., credited with 36 Japanese planes and Maj. Thomas McGuire, Ridgewood, N.J. fighter pilot with 28 planes to his credit, meet for a chat beside a plane on Leyte Island Philippines on Nov. 15, 1944. The two officers are the leading fighter pilots in the Army Air forces in the Pacific. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(30 of72)
T/4 J. Urso, right, of Brooklyn, N.Y., holds up a piece of a chicken which he took in hand along the road to Carigaria during the fighting on Leyte island, Philippines on Nov. 15, 1944. Pfc. Charles DeLorinier of San Francisco looks on. (AP Photo/Pool/Acme) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Philippines General Douglas MacArthur(31 of72)
General Douglas MacArthur holds his hand aloft in greeting to American troops whose motor convoy has paused during their advance inland on Leyte Island in the Philippines, on Nov. 16, 1944. The U.S. commanderâs jeep is armed with a machinegun and carries wheel chains to guard against snipers and difficult terrain. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines Leyte(32 of72)
**Eds Note: Graphic Content** An American soldier examines a wrecked jeep beside which lies the body of an American soldier killed by Japanese mortar fire in the fighting on Leyte in the Philippines on Nov. 21, 1944. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII: Philippines: Leyte(33 of72)
A group of American tanks pause behind a hill before moving up to the front line on Leyte in the Philippines on Nov. 21, 1944. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines US Troops Advance(34 of72)
Thick, deep mire makes the going tough for these men of the First Cavalry Division, advancing through jungle territory in pursuit of the Japanese on Leyte, in the Philippines, on Nov. 28, 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. INVASION LEYTE ISLAND(35 of72)
Japanese 90mm mortar shells explode amid a unit of U.S. Marines, as they advance through the village of Limon, on Leyte island, Philippines, in December 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII LEYTE ISLAND MEDIC AYRES(36 of72)
Hollywood actor Lew Ayres, a conscientious objector who is a noncombatant medic in the battlefield in the South Pacific, treats wounded Japanese soldiers in a tent hospital on Leyte Island in the Philippines, Dec. 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Admiralty Islands Japanese Equipment Captured(37 of72)
Capt. Charles C. Wight, left, San Antonio, Tex., congratulates a three-man gun crew credited with knocking down a Japanense plane with a Japanense anti-aircraft gun captured in the admiralty islands on Dec. 7, 1944 and brought to Tackoban, Leyte Island. (left to right) Capt. Wight, Cpl Woodrow W. Stewart, Midland, Tex.; Pfc. Cecil W. Bryant, Tye River, Va.; and Pvt. Jesse R. Cruz, Bay city, Tex. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII: New Guinea(38 of72)
A trio of sailors of an LST show extreme interest in a re-constructed Japanese Zero on a Dutch New Guinea air strip in Dec. 06, 1944. The sailors, who participated in the Leyte landings enjoyed a close up view of the Japanese plane under pleasanter circumstances than they did in the Philippines. The Zero, wrecked on the airstrip when the Americans moved in, was repaired by Army Air Force ground crews and now is good flying condition. It has been painted with American insignia in self-defense. (AP Photo/Frank Filan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Philippine Islalnds Leyte U.S.Debark(39 of72)
American soldiers pull a mortar along the beach, South of Ormoc, Leyte Island in Philippines on Dec. 7, 1944, as they made the surprise landing to bisect the Japanese forces battling on the Island. A landing craft is in the background. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII General Religion Nuns(40 of72)
A wounded American soldier, swathed in bandages, lies on a cot with other wounded men as mass is celebrated in a cathedral on Leyte Island in the Philippines Dec. 17, 1944. Most of the cathedral space has been transformed into hospital wards. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII: Philippines: Leyte(41 of72)
A wounded American soldier, swarthed in bandages, lies on a cot with other wounded men as Mass is celebrated in a cathedral on Leyte island in the Philippines on Dec. 17, 1944. Most of the cathedral space has been transformed into hospital wards. (AP Photo/Pool/Life, Eugene Smith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(42 of72)
A Filipino girl offers a cigarette to a wounded American soldier after she administered an alcohol rubdown inside a Leyte island cathedral in the Philippines on Dec. 17, 1944, which was transformed into a hospital. (AP Photo/Pool/Life, Eugene Smith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Philippine Islands Leyte U.S. Wunded(43 of72)
An interior view of the Leyte cathedral in Philippines, on Dec. 17, 1944, shows rows of cots on which wounded American soldiers and natives, ie. Mass is celebrated twice each morning. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Major Richard Bong(44 of72)
Major Richard Bong, leading American air ace, with 40 Jap Planes show down in Combat, wears Congressional Medal of Honor he received from General Douglas Macarthur at ceremonies on Leyte Island in the Philippines on Dec. 20, 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(45 of72)
Robert H. Christiansen (foreground) of Brooklyn, N.Y., uses a high speed code transmitter as he works at a wireless station on Leyte, Philippine islands on Dec. 21, 1944. (AP Photo/Pool/Acme) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Japanese Occupation And Forces(46 of72)
Luzon-based Japanese planes head for Leyte, Philippines in this photo made during the Japanese occupation, Oct. 29, 1944 and taken from the newspaper files when the Japanese were driven from the city. Original caption reads: \"OFF TO LEYTE -- A unit of Nippon Army planes is seen roaring off to attack the enemy on the Leyte front. Comrades on the ground are giving a rousing send-off. Photo taken at Nippon airbase in the Philippines.\" (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
American Advance(47 of72)
The US Army command of Colonel Summers marching to battle at Maasin (Moasin) in southern Leyte in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War, May 1899. (Photo by William Dinwiddie/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
Injured Filipino Soldier(48 of72)
An injured Filipino soldier being treated by US troops following a battle in Ormoc during World War Two, Leyte, Philippines, circa 1943. (Photo by European/FPG/Getty Images) (credit:FPG via Getty Images)
Leyte Island In World War Two(49 of72)
Wounded US troops being tended to by a medic following a beach battle during World War Two, Leyte Island, Philippines, circa 1943. (Photo by US Coast Guard/Getty Images) (credit:FPG via Getty Images)
Drink For Casualty(50 of72)
US Coast Guardsman Carol Smith gives a drink of water to injured serviceman Junior F. Happel during the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines, 20th October - 31st December 1944. (Photo by US Coast Guard/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:FPG via Getty Images)
Trops With Civilians(51 of72)
American troops with Philippine civilians after the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines, 20th October 1944. Among the group are US Coast Guardsmen Carol Smith (second row, centre, left), and Frank L. Cuenca (second row, centre, right). In the front row are members of the Peneda family (left to right) Paz, Gloria, Naro, and Paz Snr. (Photo by US Coast Guard/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:FPG via Getty Images)
WWII Philippines(52 of72)
Tanks stand on the grounds of a cathedral on Leyte Island in the Philippines serving as a hospital by the U.S. 36th Evacuation Hospital Group on Dec. 17, 1944. Tents outside the cathedral contain overlow of patients. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Sherman Tank In Leyte(53 of72)
American troops with a Sherman tank in a village in Leyte province in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte, 30th October 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Street-Fighting In Leyte(54 of72)
American troops take cover during street-fighting in the bomb-damaged village of Pawing in Leyte province in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte, 1st November 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
7th Division In Leyte(55 of72)
American troops of the 7th Division marching through a bomb-damaged village in Leyte province in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte, 13th November 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Leyte Casualty(56 of72)
An American casualty is stretchered away as other troops move up to the front lines during the Battle of Leyte in Leyte province in the Philippines, 21st November 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
The crew of the USS Kalinin Bay buried their dead at sea after the battle of Leyte Gulf. Photo courtesy of John Kanas.(57 of72)
The crew of the USS Kalinin Bay buried their dead at sea after the battle of Leyte Gulf. Photo courtesy of John Kanas. (Photo By Karl Gehring/The Denver Post via Getty Images) (credit:Karl Gehring via Getty Images)
WWII U.S. INVASION LEYTE(58 of72)
Landing barges loaded with U.S. troops are bound for the beaches of Leyte island, in October 1944, as American and Japanese fighter planes duel to the death overhead. The men aboard the crafts watch the dramatic battle in the sky as they approach the shore. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF SURIGAO STRAIT(59 of72)
The crew of a U.S. Navy Patrol Torpedo boat picks up survivors from a Japanese ship, sunk by American Naval aircrafts, in the Surigao Strait of Leyte Gulf, in the last days of October 1944. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(60 of72)
Despite heavy rain a mortar squad of the 7th Infantry Division fires an 81mm mortar at the Japanese on Leyte Island, Philippines on Nov. 11, 1944. Typhoon and torrential rains have hampered American forces in the battle to oust the Japanese. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Philippine Islalnds Leyte U.S.Debark(61 of72)
American soldiers pull a mortar along the beach, South of Ormoc, Leyte Island in Philippines on Dec. 7, 1944, as they made the surprise landing to bisect the Japanese forces battling on the Island. A landing craft is in the background. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(62 of72)
After the ear-shattering pre-landing barrage, and the commotion of the landing, a strange peace descended on Okinawa. Anomalous as it was be speaking an absence of Japanese resistance to the invasion of the doorstep to their homeland, the hush was in a sense fitting, since the opening day of the operation was on April 1 Easter of 1945. Behind the forward thrusts of the spearheads, marines and soldiers first warily, then with delight took advantage of the pastoral calm. Their foxholes dug, and the primary installations set up, they broke open chow rations, chose pets from among the goats roaming about, strolled around the rolling littoral, or just stretched out for forty winks. The battle was not won, or even joined. But to these hardened Veterans of Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa, Palau and Leyte, this was the oddest invasion of them all one which was truly symbolized by the designation for the opening day of the assault: âLove-Dayâ. Halting for a moment during his jeep-tour of the beachhead, War correspondent Ernie Pyle chats with his âChauffeurâ, Pfc. J. P. Murray of the marines, who hails from Winthrop, Mass., in Japan on April 11, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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US 1st Cavalry troops wade through a swamp in Leyte (credit:Wikimedia)
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A US 105 mm (4.1 in) howitzer fires at Catmon Hill (credit:Wikimedia)
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US armored car at Labiranan Head (credit:Wikimedia)
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Amphibious forces approach Leyte, October 1944 (credit:Wikimedia)
WWII Philippines Leyte(67 of72)
Advancing up a steep hill on Leyte island, troops of the U.S. 96th Division head into the attack on Catamon Hill, power Japanese stronghold on the Philippine island on Nov. 13, 1944. (AP Photo/Pool/ACME, Stanley Troutman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(68 of72)
Cardi Dran stands atop an American jeep and tosses Japanese invasion currency to American soldiers in Tacloban, Leyte island in the Philippines on Nov. 13, 1944. Some 4,000,000 valueless âpesosâ - Japanese invasion currency - is being distributed by the Red Cross as souvenirs. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Asia Philippine Islands Leyte U.S. Guns(69 of72)
Squatting behind his heavy machine gun in the Leyte Island jungle at Philippines on Nov. 13, 1944, this yank covers the advance of American Infantrymen on a small hill ahead. His fellow crewman feeds ammunition into the gun. (AP Photo/Stanley Troutman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Philippines(70 of72)
Pvt. William A. Schultz, left, of St. Joseph, Mich., issues American uniforms, food and munitions to Filipino guerillas on Leyte island, Philippines on Nov. 10, 1944. (AP Photo/Ernest King) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Douglas Macarthur(71 of72)
General Douglas Macarthur and a group of U.S. Army and Philippine officers wade ashore at Leyte Island, October 1944 in the Philippines. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
General Macarthur And Colonel Lehrbas In A Jeep On The Island Of Leyte During The Battle Of The Pacific 1944(72 of72)
PHILIPPINES - OCTOBER 26: American troops have just landed on the Island of Leyte after naval combat against the Japanese. General MACARTHUR who was in charge of the Allied Forces during the Battle of the Pacific visits along with Colonel Lloyd LHERBAS the ruins of Tacloban city, the island\'s main city. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) (credit:Keystone-France via Getty Images)
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