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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

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