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The Battle of Leyte (Filipino: Labanan sa Leyte; Waray: Gubat ha Leyte; Japanese: レイテの戦い) 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 ...
The following events occurred in October 1944: October 1, 1944 (Sunday) The Battle of Tornio began between German and Finnish forces. ... October 20, 1944 (Friday)
At 2:30 p.m. on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944, the cylindrical above-ground storage tank number 4, holding liquefied natural gas in the East Ohio Gas Company's tank farm, began to emit a vapor that poured from a seam [3] on the side of the tank. Experts criticized the cylinder's untested shape and materials. [1]
On 20 October 1944, a group of 111 USAAF bombers of the 49th Bombardment Wing [7] took off from Foggia to strike several industrial targets in Milan. [8] [5] The daylight raid intended to hit the Alfa Romeo, Isotta Fraschini, and Breda works in the city, all of which were being used in the war effort. [5]
This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II. January ... 20: The Royal Air Force ... October 1944. 1st:
Musashi departing Brunei in October 1944 for the Battle of Leyte Gulf The American options were apparent to the IJN . Combined Fleet Chief Soemu Toyoda prepared four "victory" plans: Shō-Gō 1 ( 捷1号作戦 , Shō ichigō sakusen ) was a major naval operation in the Philippines, while Shō-Gō 2, Shō-Gō 3 and Shō-Gō 4 were responses to ...
The MacArthur Leyte Landing Memorial National Park (also known as the Leyte Landing Memorial Park and MacArthur Park) is a protected area of the Philippines that commemorates the historic landing of General Douglas MacArthur in Leyte Gulf at the start of the campaign to recapture and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation on 20 October 1944.
On 20 October 1944, troops of the United States Sixth Army under the direct command of Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, invaded the Philippine island of Leyte. This operation was the beginning of General Douglas MacArthur's fulfillment of his promise in March 1942 to the Filipino people that he would liberate them from Japanese rule.