U.S. cargo ships unload supplies at Cebu Harbor. U.S.

U.S. cargo ships unload supplies at Cebu Harbor. U.S. cargo ships throng the harbor of Cebu City, second largest city of the Philippines, and capital of Cebu island, on which U.S. Eight Army forces landed on March 26, 1945 and which they liberated April 21. The cargo ships unload food, supplies and ammunition carried from U.S. ports to this central Philippines harbor. U.S. President Harry S. Truman emphasized the manitude of the shipping problem in a June 1, 1945 message to the U.S. Congress when he stated: 'All of our campaigns in Europe and in the Pacific have depended on long lines of communications and upon quantities of supply unheard of in prior warfare ... Shifting our ground and air strength from Europe to the Far East presents transportation problems even greater and more complicated than those involved in the initial deployment of our forces to all parts of the world. Millions of men and millions of tons of supplies must be moved half way around the globe.' NI 9229