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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 19, 2013 10:56 AM |
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| From: | Representative Mark M. Gillen |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | October 20, 2014 as Leyte Landing Day |
| In the near future, I will be introducing legislation that will designate October 20, 2014 as Leyte Landing Day. This date marks the 70th Anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur’s return to the Philippines, in the effort to end Japan’s occupation. The Battle of Leyte was a combined amphibious attack of the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force, to reclaim the islands of the Philippines for its people. Leyte was the fulfillment of a promise from MacArthur to the people of the Philippines to return one day. When he left in 1942, he declared he would be back, and he returned on October 20, 1944, alongside the displaced President of the Philippines. During this hard fought battle to gain beach hold and then continuing until the surrender of the Japanese in August of 1945, 13,973 Americans lost their lives to give freedom to the Philippine people.
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Introduced as HR657