The Price Of Philippine Liberation
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The Price Of Philippine Liberation

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Photograph

The Price Of Philippine Liberation

October 1944
Gelatin silver print
18.7 x 24.2 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "3529" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"The Price Of Philippine Liberation" "Out of the Hell-fire that swept
the Leyte Island beachhead, an American is carried on a makeshift
litter by his comrades. He fell in the initial assault upon the
Philippines. A Coast Guard Combat Photographer, going in with the
early waves, made this grim picture of the price of Philippine
liberation. In the distance, landing craft move shoreward from..."
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