LEGAZPI CITY: The liberation of Bicolandia from Japanese forces in 1945 was commemorated here on Saturday.
On April 1, 1945, the 158th Infantry Regimental Combat team of the US 6th Army command led by Brig. General Hanford Macnider and Captain Hoomer Mcgee landed in Legaspi Gulf on the shore of Barangay Rawis in this city. Macnider, with Filipino guerrilla fighters led by Lt. Col. Demetrio Camua, defeated the Japanese forces giving the victorious allies easy access to San Bernardino Strait, the gateway to the Visayas.
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