X Corps Landing

After four hours of heavy naval gunfire on 20 October, called 'A-day', the X Army Corps landed on the beach on the east coast of Leyte. The X Army Corps took Tacloban and the airport as soon as possible, both …

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After four hours of heavy naval gunfire on 20 October, called 'A-day', the X Army Corps landed on the beach on the east coast of Leyte. The X Army Corps took Tacloban and the airport as soon as possible, both just one mile north of the beach where the force landed. This to secure the sea lane between Leyte and the Samar Islands. Troops of the X Army Corps fought their way to the beach between Tacloban airport and the Palo River. They encountered resistance from the terrain and the Japanese fire. Within an hour of landing, the beachheads were secured enough to receive heavy vehicles and large quantities of supplies. By the end of A-day the X Army Corps had moved inland and occupied the airfield of Tacloban and the hill 'Hill 522'.

Leyte Beach, Phillipines

The Battle of Leyte 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 overall command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita. The operation, codenamed King Two, launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.

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