After the Hell of Shells. Beauty of Leyte's palm-fringed beaches is marred by the devastating shellfire of American Naval guns that preceded the amphibious assault that drove a liberation wedge into the central Philippines. Coast Guardsmen and troops, rifles readies, move cautiously along the shore, wary of Jap snipers hiding in the cover of the toppled trees.

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Keywords: 17-a2-199, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg