San Francisco Coast Guardsmen Participate in Philippine Invasion. Coast Guardsmen Frank L. Cuenca, Yeoman Second Class, and Oliver Goldsmith, Photographer's Mate Second Class, both of San Francisco, Calif., were among the first to set foot on the Philippine island Leyte. Both Coast Guardsmen hit the beach with the infantry in the third assault wave. This photograph was taken on Red Beach at Leyte Island, Central Philippines. Cuenca and Goldsmith were high school buddies in San Francisco and also "boot camp" shipmates at the United States Coast Guard training station in August, 1942.

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