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Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

Chapter 236: UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
By M. Hamlin Cannon
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The narrative recounts the Allied campaign to seize and secure Leyte in the Philippines, describing planning, amphibious landings, and combined operations of ground, naval, and air forces. It integrates ground combat with large-scale naval engagements and land-based air support while detailing logistics, medical evacuation, and guerrilla contributions. The account includes Japanese dispositions and responses, assesses how the operation split Japanese control of the archipelago and interrupted vital resource lines, and balances operational description with analysis of interservice coordination and the campaign's strategic consequences.

UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II

The multivolume series, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, consists of a number of subseries which are tentatively planned as follows: The War Department, The Army Air Forces, The Army Ground Forces, The Army Service Forces, The Defense of the Western Hemisphere, The War in the Pacific, The European Theater of Operations, The War in the Mediterranean, The Middle East Theater, The China-Burma-India Theater, Civil Affairs, The Technical Services, Special Studies, and Pictorial Record.

The following volumes have been published or are in press:1

  • The War Department
    • Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations
    • Washington Command Post: The Operations Division
    • Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1941–1942
  • The Army Ground Forces
    • The Organization of Ground Combat Troops
    • The Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops
  • The Army Service Forces
    • The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces
  • The War in the Pacific
    • Okinawa: The Last Battle
    • Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
    • The Approach to the Philippines
    • The Fall of the Philippines
    • Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
  • The European Theater of Operations
    • The Lorraine Campaign
    • Cross-Channel Attack
    • Logistical Support of the Armies (Volume I)
    • The Supreme Command
  • The Middle East Theater
    • The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia
  • The China-Burma-India Theater
    • Stilwell’s Mission to China
  • The Technical Services
    • The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations
    • The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume I
    • The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War
  • Special Studies
    • Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt
    • The Women’s Army Corps
  • Pictorial Record
    • The War Against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and Adjacent Areas
    • The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas
    • The War Against Japan

1 Volumes on the Army Air Forces, published by the University of Chicago Press, are not included. ↑