The All Hands March 1945 Bulletin featured coverage of the Luzon campaign and the powerful naval forces that drove the Army’s advance on Manila. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) led a battle line of American warships—Colorado (BB-45), Louisville (CA-28), Portland (CA-33), and Columbia (CL-56)—into Lingayen Gulf in January 1945, delivering the naval gunfire support that secured the beachhead and opened the road to the Philippine capital. The article and accompanying photographs document the coordinated surface, air, and amphibious operations that made the Luzon landings one of the most powerful combined-arms assaults of the Pacific War.
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USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) leads USS Colorado (BB-45), USS Louisville (CA-28), USS Portland (CA-33), and USS Columbia (CL-56) in battle line, entering Lingayen Gulf preceding the landings on Luzon in the Philippines, January 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-59525.