Showing posts with label Leyte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leyte. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2013

Open Thread


Gas attack at the Somme photo courtesy of the History Blog


Also meant to mention the 10,000 dead in Tacloban.  Wasn't that MacArhtur's HQ after the Leyte landing?  They also had trouble back then with flooding this time of year.  Nothing like this of course, which was a million times worse.  But most of the MacArthur's airfields were swamped and useless.