80 years of Indo-Pacific partnership on display during Arctic exercise
U.S. Army Signal Corps depicts 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers staging gear in Mindoro, Philippines, Feb. 3, 1945. The 511th PIR, part of the 11th Airborne Division, prepared for a mass combat airdrop with the 317th Troop Carrier Group over Tagaytay Ridge in Luzon, Philippines, in support of the liberation of the Japanese-occupied capital, Manila. The joint cooperation to liberate and defend the Philippines was critical to U.S. victory in the Pacific Theater. (Photo by Courtesy Photo)