First Wave Debarks in Lingayen Gulf. First Wave Debarks in Lingayen Gulf. Yankee fighting men clamber down the landing nets from a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport to crack out a beachhead on Lingayen Gulf at the start of the Jan. 9 invasion of Luzon. These first wavers, veterans of battles in the Solomons and New Guinea are piling into landing barges for the dash ashore, even as the fleet concludes a terrific barrage at Jap gun emplacements.

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