The flagship Wasatch, which carried senior navy commander Vice Adm. Thomas Kinkaid and General Krueger of the Sixth Army, broadcast the news. “The first wave has landed!” Troops charged ashore first on the beaches near San Fabian at nine-thirty a.m., followed three minutes later by the arrival of soldiers at Lingayen. The massive naval guns began firing again, aiming at the flanks of the invasion beaches and inland targets. Similar reports of a lack of enemy troops poured in from the other beaches.
