40th Infantry Division troops are disembarking from USS LCI(L)-1018 and USS LCI(L)-1064 landing crafts on a beach at Pulupandan, Negros Island, the Philippines. Some of the locals are looking on.


Invasion of the Philippines

U.S. Army LVT(A)-1 Alligators landing from LSTs on Leyte Beach.
The Battle of Leyte  (17 October - 26 December 1944) in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, 

Landing on Leyte beach

American armor in the Ardennes, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge; November 1944-December 1945.