• Title
  [Philippines - Leyte Island and Tacloban]
• Creator
  Australia. Dept. of Information
• Call number
  PXA 644/426-432
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1943-1944
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  74187
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 7 silver gelatin photoprints
  
• Scope and Content
  426. ... An American soldier is shown fraternising with a group of Filipinos at Tacloban
  427. Members of the gun crew carrying ammunition to a 155mm Howitzer which was used at Tacloban ...
  428. A 105mm U.S. Howitzer firing on Japanese positions shortly after the occupation of Tacloban
  429. The first Sherman tank to cross the Mainit River on Leyte Island
  430. Red Beach on Leyte Island ... stocks of stores brought in by LST's and freighters from New Guinea and America ...
  431. Allied troops make emplacements for trench mortars in the coconut groves north of Palo following the invasion of Leyte Island
  432. R.A.A.F. personnel serving in the Philippines campaign show keen interest in the Filipino method of pounding rice in a large bowl
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045513
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled on reverse
• Name
  Australia. Royal Australian Air Force
  United States. Army
  World War (1939-1945)
  
• Subject
  children
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  air force officers
  howitzers
  landing craft
  Philippine people
  soldiers
  tanks (vehicles)
  wars
  
• Place
  Leyte Island (Philippines)
  Tacloban (Philippines)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1133227

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