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The Heroic Exploits of WWII’s Pacific Paratroopers
The Art of Manliness
The 11th Airborne Landed on Leyte in November 1944
The 11th Airborne landed on the island of Leyte initially in an administrative capacity. They were just kind of following along that island hopping campaign and landing on a secure beach after the invasion had already started. But pretty quickly into that campaign, MacArthur and his ground commander, a guy named Walter Kruger, started realizing that they were suffering higher than expected casualties. The 11th was then pushed up into the line to fill in as replacements and start moving into combat.
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