Filipinos aid U.S. Army vehicle to cross Luzon Bridge.

Filipinos aid U.S. Army vehicle to cross Luzon Bridge. Filipinos on Luzon tow a jeep over a bamboo bridge that gave way under the U.S. vehicle. As the U.S. Sixth Army's southward drive approached Manila, the U.S. Eight Army made two new landings on the main Philippine island. The first, on January 29, 1945, was on the west coast 56 miles northwest of the Philippine capital. On February 1, another Eighth Army force army established a beachhead at Masugbu Bay, 32 miles southwest of Cavite naval base and Manila. As a result of the new landings the Japanese garrison at Manila was threatened from the south, west and north. NI 9221