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This report covers the period from the time the Engineer, Sixth Army, was first apprised of the Luzon operation, 14 September 1944, until the capture of Aparri on the northern tip of Luzon. The document stresses capabilities and limitations that pertain to the Army Engineer service. This report goes into more detail than other staff section reports with the purpose of demonstrating the problems confronting the military engineer during battle, and especially emphasizing the relationship of engineer operations to the other activities of a field army. Highlighted are topics including weather and terrain, advance planning, preparatory operations in staging areas, landing and seizure of the beachhead line, various advances, Subic Bay operations, the capture of Manila, the recapture of Corregidor, tactics of the infantry action, general engineer planning, engineer operations in direct support of tactical operations, major corps construction operations, and Army engineer operations.