Keywords: 26-G-3549_Box 70_1: Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944. Old Glory Snaps Again In the Philippine Breeze. Coast Guardsman Frank L. Guenca (sic), one of the first to hit the beach of Leyte Island, finds inspiration in the Stars and Stripes unfurled in the Philippine breezes from a palm tree. Filipino rejoiced to see the American Flag again after nearly three years under the Rising Sun. Coast Guardsman, Yeoman Second Class Guenca, was a member of a beach party from a Coast Guard-manned LST. U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/15). 26-G-3549_Box 70_1: Invasion of Leyte, Philippines, 20 October 1944. Old Glory Snaps Again In the Philippine Breeze. Coast Guardsman Frank L. Guenca (sic), one of the first to hit the beach of Leyte Island, finds inspiration in the Stars and Stripes unfurled in the Philippine breezes from a palm tree. Filipino rejoiced to see the American Flag again after nearly three years under the Rising Sun. Coast Guardsman, Yeoman Second Class Guenca, was a member of a beach party from a Coast Guard-manned LST. U.S. Coast Guard photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/15). |