 GEOG: The general proposes landing at Leyte Beach "on the island of  Luzon" in the movie. Leyte Beach, where the general made his famous  landing in 1944, is not on Luzon but on the southern island of  Leyte, some 500 miles southeast of the point the general indicates  on the map. In fact, he is pointing to Lingayen Gulf, which is on  Luzon, but is not where his first attack will be. It is where the  Japanese staged their amphibious landing in December, 1941 (that  eventually pushed down the island to Bataan, Manila, and Corregidor  Island), and is where the U.S. forces came ashore in early January,  1945, after the first landings on Leyte in October, 1944.