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Leyte

Red Beach, Palo (MacArthur landing)

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: eyes-only: landing-era context, monument, occasional storm-exposed debris.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

20 October 1944 US landing beach that opened the Leyte campaign and the Battle of Leyte Gulf

Landing exhaustively documented; surface finds on the memorial beach are not, eyes-only site

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Exposed east-facing coast in typhoon season

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