Day of an American Battle-20OCT1944-Philippines Mystery Cache

This is a cache in a series of caches that highlights some of the Battles fought by American Forces.  Hopefully as you go thru these, you will either refresh a memory or learn something new. 

Refer to Day of an American Battle-19Oct2007 GC  for a more detailed description

The Philippines campaign of 1944–1945, (OPERATION MUSKETEER I, II, and III) the Battle of the Philippines 1944–1945, or the Liberation of the Philippines was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II. The Japanese Army had overrun all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. The Liberation of the Philippines commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944, and hostilities in a small part of the Philippines continued through the end of the war in August 1945.

The cache is located at N34 31.731 w84 08.x12

X= On October 20, 1944, the U.S. _ Army, landed on the favorable eastern shore of Leyte