20 October 1944
Leyte Landings
Krueger commands the Sixth Army as American ground forces land on Leyte and begin the campaign to retake the central Philippines.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Leyte in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Krueger commands the Sixth Army as American ground forces land on Leyte and begin the campaign to retake the central Philippines.
MacArthur lands on Leyte after the initial assault and publicly marks the return of Allied forces to the Philippines.
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