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Macintosh Picture Format  |  1997-02-26  |  53KB  |  432x324  |  8-bit (75 colors)

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OCR: General MacArthur at Leyte About th: Battle for Levte Gulf The Battle for Leyte Gulf in the Philippines pitted 70 Japanese warships and 716 planes against 166 American warships and 1,280 planes. The commander of he Allied forces was eneral Douglas Mac Arthur. The Japanese were desperate ta hold onto these islands they had taken in 1942 They developed the concepi of "kamikaze" attacks in which suici de pilots dove their planes into American warships. When the Battle for Leyte Gulf was over, 56,000 Japanese lay dead but less than 3,000 Americans were killed in the battle Gereral tthe aver concept apanese

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