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In Lingayen Gulf, kamikazes damage the battleship, killing 30 – including British Lieutenant General Herbert Lumsden – the battleship, the heavy cruiser USS Louisville ( CA-28 ) – mortally wounding Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler – the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, the light cruiser, three destroyers, a destroyer-minesweeper, and a destroyer-transport and sink a destroyer-minesweeper.
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Wearing swim suits, fins, and dive masks on combat operations, these " Naked Warriors " saw action across the Pacific in every major amphibious landing including: Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur, Ulithi, Peleliu, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Labuan, Brunei Bay, and on 4 July 1945 at Balikpapan on Borneo, which was the last UDT demolition operation of the war.
During the Battle of the Philippines ( 1941 – 42 ), the Japanese Army invaded Luzon from the north ( at Lingayen Gulf ) in early 1942 and attacked Manila from its landward side.
* Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
Retreating from the Japanese beachhead of Lingayen Gulf, Allied forces had withdrawn onto the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor by January 1942, where they defended the entrance to Manila Bay.
Casey had intended to come ashore on the first day of the landing at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 but was delayed a day because the destroyer he was travelling on had to escort a crippled transport.
The next day 4 B-17s took off from Del Monte after midnight and bombed enemy shipping in Lingayen Gulf.
Following the elimination of American air support, the main body of the IJA 14th Army was to land at Lingayen Gulf, while another force landed at Lamon Bay.
The center group was composed of IJA 48th Division, left for Java on February 8, 1942 from Lingayen Gulf, in the Philippines.
On 9 January 1945, I Corps successfully landed on the coast of the Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon with the mission of establishing a base for future operations to the north and of denying the enemy northern access to the South China Sea.
On 19 September 1945 the corps, with the assigned 33rd Infantry Division, sailed from Lingayen Gulf for Japan, landing on the island of Honshū on 25 September, three weeks after Japan's formal surrender.
The Lingayen Gulf is an extension of the South China Sea on Luzon in the Philippines, stretching.
The Agno River drains into Lingayen Gulf.
The waters of Lingayen Gulf are murky due to its sandy bottom.
During World War II, the Lingayen Gulf proved a strategically important theatre of war between American and Japanese forces.
For the next three years, the gulf remained under Japanese occupation prior to the Lingayen Gulf Landings.
Following the landings, the Lingayen Gulf was turned into a vast supply depot for the rest of the war to support the American and Filipino assault on Manila.
In the 63rd anniversary commemoration of the Lingayen Gulf Landing, President Fidel Ramos appealed to U. S. President George W. Bush for 24, 000 surviving war veterans, to pass two legislative bills pending since 1968 at the US House of Representatives — the Filipino Veterans ’ Equity Act of 2006 and the Filipino Veterans ’ Equity of 2005 sponsored by former Senator Daniel Inouye.
Fishing and salt-making are the primary industries on Lingayen Gulf.
The Lingayen Gulf is also home to the 1200 megawatt Sual Power Station, the Philippines largest coal power plant.
Lingayen Gulf is the most notable body of water in the region and it contains a number of islands, including the Hundred Islands National Park.
The Agno river runs through Pangasinan and empties into the Lingayen Gulf.
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In Lingayen Gulf, kamikazes sink a destroyer and a destroyer-minesweeper.
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At 09: 30 on 9 January 1945, the U. S. 6th Army conducted an amphibious landing on the gulf, following a devastating naval bombardment, with 68, 000 troops landing on the first day alone and a total of 203, 608 in subsequent landings along a beachhead, stretching from Sual, Lingayen and Dagupan ( XIV Corps ) to the west, and San Fabian ( I Corps ) in to the east.
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* January 3 – 4 – U. S. Navy Task Force 38 begins its support of the U. S. invasion of Lingayen Gulf with carrier air strikes against Japanese forces and facilities on Formosa, the Pescadores, the Sakishima Gunto, and Okinawa, with the loss of 22 U. S. aircraft.
It is the last of seven days of Task Force 38 support to the Lingayen landings, during which it has flown 3, 030 combat sorties, dropped 9, 110 bombs – totaling about 700 tons ( 635, 036 kg ) of bombs – and lost 46 planes in combat and 40 to non-combat causes.
* January 12 – 13 – Kamikazes resume attacks in Lingayen Gulf, damaging a destroyer escort, a destroyer-transport, an attack transport, and several merchant ships.
* January 13 – A kamikaze damages the escort carrier in the South China Sea off the mouth of Lingayen Gulf.
On January 8 – 9, 1945, the amphibious forces of U. S. General Douglas MacArthur used the town's beach, designated as " yellow beach ", alongside the beaches of Lingayen, Dagupan, and San Fabian, in their landing operations to liberate Luzon from Japanese occupation during World War II.
The 33rd landed at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, 10 February 1945, and relieved the 43d Infantry Division in the Damortis-Rosario Pozorrubio area, 13 – 15 February.
On January 8 – January 9, 1945, U. S. General Douglas MacArthur landed his amphibious liberation force in the city's " Blue Beach " section along the Lingayen Gulf.
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These small-scale landings preceded the main assault on 22 December 1941 at Lingayen Gulf in Pangasinan and Lamon Bay, Tayabas by the 14th Japanese Imperial Army, led by Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma.
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San Juan was liberated in 1945 by the soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, Philippine Constabulary and the guerrilla units of the La Union Infantry Regiment during the Battle of San Fernando under Major Russell W. Volckmann on their way to meet the liberating forces of General Douglas MacArthur on the beaches of Lingayen Gulf.
From his beachhead in Dagupan, along with those in neighboring towns Lingayen, Binmaley and San Fabian, MacArthur's forces under General Walter Krueger together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops were able to penetrate Japanese defenses in Luzon island and liberate Filipino and allied prisoners of war near Cabanatuan in the province of Nueva Ecija, and in Manila's University of Sto.
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Construction of two new fields intended to support heavy bomber operations, at Rosales on the Lingayen Plain and Del Carmen near Clark Field, proceeded slowly.
At about 08: 00 while one shift of the flight crews were eating breakfast, the 17th Pursuit Squadron received orders to cover Clark Field, as a heavy fleet of Japanese bombers were reported north of Luzon heading down Lingayen Gulf towards the central plain.
** A kamikaze again damages the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in Lingayen Gulf.
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* USS Lingayen, a Commencement Bay class escort carrier of the United States Navy
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