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Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

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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.

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This book was first published in 1954. A second edition appeared in 1993. The text of this ebook is based on the 1954 edition, of which scans are available on-line (copy 1, 2); The 1993 edition is also available on-line (copy 1); and from various other locations on-line. This edition has been used to obtain the illustrations, which where of low quality in the 1954 scan-set available.

The US Army Center of Military History also provides access to this 1993 copy. (copy 1).

An alternative html-version is available from the hyperwar project, based on the 1993 edition.

The maps indicated as located “Inside back cover” in this book are missing from the scan-sets available (and are completely missing from the 1993 edition; as a result in that edition the maps have been renumbered through-out the book).

Related Library of Congress catalog page: 53061979.

Related Open Library catalog page (for source): OL6148782M.

Related Open Library catalog page (for work): OL3406324W.

Related WorldCat catalog page: 1259234.

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