European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I 4 i Philippe Campaign when Corregidor surrendered to the japanese on May More than 40 years of preparation for filipino Independence had been undone within a few the Road Back was a Long it started several months later in the Jungles of Guadalcanal and new and on the Waters of the Coral it was slow going at first Yard Yard Jungle fight with never enough men or supplies and never enough As we began to feel our it went ahead More swiftly leapfrog jumps that brought us hundreds of Miles closer to our it went on up through the Solomons and along the coast of new Guinea and new Britain and the and it came out from the Central Pacific the Gilberts and the and picking up it swept on to the and up out of new Guinea to the on october our combined might smashed into the Philip two years and almost six months after we had gone Down to defeat in those Joseph Stefanelli was an amphibian Engineer in new Guinea before joining yank As a combat his sketches record the philippine Campaign from beginning to i War Leyte under air and naval the Landing was made against Light but fight ing increased As troops pushed in Field hospitals set up in places like this Catholic Church in Kio Merman girls pitched in to Aid our wounded Here one feeds a of through a Taloban this provincial capital of Leyte was the first major objective captured in the Philippines its capable of taking three an things that drove to iffy and St Gav Otar