Ormoc Landings

Around December 7th, 1944.

U.S. ships bombard Ormoc Bay.

A twenty-minute bombardment is followed by a U.S. landing attempt, and also by a Japanese attack on the ships.

Survivors of a U.S. transport that was sunk.

U.S. troops land on a beach a few miles from Ormoc.

A U.S. tank uses a flame-thrower as Japanese opposition intensifies.

Ormoc (or, more properly, what is left of it) falls.

One of the very few Japanese prisoners. They had just shown a Japanese soldier who had committed suicide.

A Japanese transport that had been attempting to land is attacked.

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