Ranking Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) officials
with their defense and provincial government counterparts commemorated the 71st
anniversary of American forces landings in Lingayen Gulf ,
Pangasinan on Saturday.
The event was held at the War Memorial Park
The Lingayen Gulf Landings took place on Jan. 9, 1945 when
the US 6th Army led by Gen. Douglas Macarthur landed in a 32-kilometer
beachhead between the town of Lingayen
This paved the way for the entire liberation of Luzon , was considered as one of the significant events in
World War II.
Other officials present were Department of National Defense
undersecretary for veterans affairs Jesus Millan; 702nd Infantry Battalion
commander Col. David B. Diciano; Lt. Col. Bruce Murray, Defense Attache,
Australian Embassy to the Philippines; Atty. James Curtis-Smith, President of
the Returned and Service League of Australia; and several officials of local
government of Pangasinan headed by Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and Vice Gov.
Ferdinand Z. Calimlim Jr.
“This place where we stand right now was a witness to the
gallantry of our forebears who offered their lives to regain the freedom we now
enjoy. The priest even told them, 'Freedom was brought to the world by the Lord
and nobody can take away the freedom from us'. The freedom from the Almighty
that the Japanese had taken away from us was restored by our veterans,” Carolina
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