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all of a baseball park at M

anila, Luzon, P.I., 16 February 1945.

Facts:

ElevenU

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Largest Pacific Cam

paign

Five

Am

phibious Assaults

Three

A

irborne Assaults

Liberation of Manila

Largest Urban C

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heater

47,000

Casualties

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issing, or captured)

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ixth

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phib

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ault

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and

of L

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3 –

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1945

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U.S

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U.S. A

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XIV

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1st C

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6th Infantry Division

11th Airborne D

ivision 24th InfantryD

ivision

25th Infantry D

ivision 32d Infantry D

ivision 33d Infantry D

ivision 37th Infantry D

ivision

38th Infantry D

ivision 40th Infantry D

ivision 43d Infantry D

ivision