By early 1945, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps had conducted dozens of amphibious assaults across the Pacific — Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Leyte, Luzon — each landing bringing American forces closer to the Japanese home islands. The March 1945 issue of All Hands recounted this island-to-island advance and the liberation of Manila, which fell to American forces in February 1945 after savage urban fighting. These four pages document the amphibious campaign: the landing craft and warships that carried troops ashore, the naval gunfire support that prepared the beaches, and the sailors and Marines who fought their way from the first beachheads through the Philippine capital.
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