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41st Infantry Division
of the United States Army
Sites captured from the Japanese provided staging areas for an invasion of the Philippines and air bases to help control oceanic passages between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Soldiers of the 41st take in a rare respite from the fighting, are seen gathered around to enjoy an Artie Shaw performance. |
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41st Infantry Division of the United States Army The Philippine city of Zamboanga, torn by American bombs in 1945 (below), was one of many important posts captured by the 41st Division in their northward advance following the taking of Biak, New Guinea, in late July 1944. |
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Ships at Zamboanga, Philippines
This view from the Picket Boat P3A1, Captain Buzzini, Company A 533rd is believed to show a view of Zamboanga, Philippines circa late May - early June 1945 taken by the coxswain of P3A1, Steve Parris. |
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Amphibian Engineer Units of the 3rd Engineer Special Brigade were responsible for unloading ground forces from ship to shore in their |
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543rd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment (EBSR) On March 10, 1945, they landed at Zamboanga City, Mindanao, suffering numerous casualties from the intense shellfire laid down on the beach by the Japanese occupation forces. In the next few weeks a series of shore-to-shore operations down the Sulu Archipelago stretched C Company to the limit.
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by
Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations
The campaign to complete the reoccupation of the Philippines resolved
itself naturally into a series of amphibious landings to seize control
of coastal cities and other strongly held Japanese positions. In March
three such landings were made by forces of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid's
Seventh Fleet. (See Plate 9.)
The first of these landings was made on 10 March at
Zamboanga, at the
southwest tip of
Mindanao, in order to obtain control of the passage
from the Sulu to the Celebes Sea, secure naval and air facilities with
which to compress the Japanese remaining in the central Philippines, and
provide a further steppingstone down the Sulu Archipelago for future
operations towards Borneo. The attack group was under command of the
late Rear Admiral F. B. Royal. Light cruisers and destroyers bombarded
enemy positions there for two days while mine sweepers made sure the
approaches were clear. On 10 March the
41st
Division was put ashore
under moderate enemy artillery and mortar fire. The troops quickly
overran Zamboanga City
and the two airfields nearby, driving the
Japanese back into the hills. A further landing was made on Basilan
Island on 16 March without enemy opposition.
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/history/usaaf/5-45.html
HQ 18th Fighter Group
and 12th and 70th Fighter Squadrons move from San Jose, Mindoro Island to
Zamboanga, Mindanao
Island with P-38s.
