Pictures of Tacloban, Leyte
in the Philippines in WWII
Phillipines
Army Signal Corps photos of Tacloban in the Pacific during WWII. Tacloban
is on the island of Leyte in the Phillipines. WWII Philippines
pictures
From the personal scrapbooks of Lt. Col. O. Howard
Davidsmeyer, Sr.
US Army Beach Camp on Tacloban
Caption on photo is simply: "Tacloban"
Pictures seems to be of native Philippine soldiers showing a captured Japanese flag
Church in Tacloban,
priest, women and children on balcony
Picture taken on the beach at Tacloban. Sign reads: Philippines Transshipment Mail Office
(Mobile Unit #1) .... all it is, is a tree on the beach at Taoloban.
LST (Landing Ship Tank) off Tacloban, Leyte Island
Several native Filippino outrigger canoes alongside the ship
Taking the beach at Tacloban (Philippines)
Interior of Church in Tacloban
It was used for care of Allied wounded in World War II
Church in Tacloban
A soldier and four Phillipinos standing in front
A street in Tacloban, probably 1943
Statue dedicated to the Youth of Leyte
(Boyscout statue)
WWII soldiers and equipment in background
Caption on back reads: Leyte on the road to Taloosa (between Tacloban and Palo)
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