Joyous Filipinos mingle with Americans on Leyte Beach.

Joyous Filipinos mingle with Americans on Leyte Beach. Threngs of Philippine civilians, half-starved, war-weary but joyous at being liberated from the Japanese, swarm from cellars and hills to welcome American and Filipine forces as they land on a beach near a bombtorn town. At the right is a Filipino outrigger canoe, left stranded by the receding tide and seeming strangely out of place among the mechanized equipment of the liberators. NI 9222