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Operation Shoe String: US Forces
US Naval Forces Operation Shoe String
Submarine Squadron 12 (provisional) (Commander Charles Momsen)
Subic Bay cover force Sculpin, Stingray
Leyte cover force S-37, S-38
Lingayen Gulf cover force Skipjack, Seadragon
escort group Seawolf (command ship) Swordfish
Leyte transport group Argonaut, Narwal, Nautilus
Corregidor transport group Barracuda, Bass, Bonita,
Army Forces
15th Signals Battalion (Philippine Army)
consists of 300 American and Filipino-American (from Hawaii, California and elsewhere in the US) officers and men, plus the latest radio gear, spares, and other supplies). This volunteer unit has been training for several weeks and was hastily formed in April 1942 to be infiltrated into the Philippines to provide communications support for the stay behind and newly forming guerrilla forces.
US / Philippine Army Guerrilla forces in Leyte, Samar and southern Luzon