The Snapshots in Time Collection

Captured Ammunition Dump, Luzon Highlands, Philippines, WWII

Captured Ammunition Dump, Luzon Highlands, Philippines, WWII

Rows of wooden ammunition crates and stacked artillery shells fill this field in the pine-covered highlands of Luzon, likely near Baguio, documenting a captured or abandoned Japanese ammunition dump during the 1945 Philippine campaign. Photographs like this recorded the scale of enemy war materiel encountered by advancing American and Filipino forces as they fought to liberate the islands. Project: 218437