1 Opns Rpt CTF 78 to COMINCH, Ser 00911, 10 Nov 44. 

2 Rpt, Capt Ray Tarbuck, USN, 3 Nov 44, GHQ SWPA G-3 Jnl, 30 Oct 44. (Hereafter cited as Tarbuck Rpt.) 

3 Opns Rpt CTF 78 to COMINCH, Ser 00911, 10 Nov 44. 

4 96th Inf Div Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 20. 

5 7th Inf Div Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 2. 

6 XXIV Corps Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 4. 

7 96th Div Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 25. 

8 XXIV Corps Hist Rpt for 1944, Sec Histories, History of the Adjutant Generals Section from 8 April to 31 December 1944, pp. 10–11. 

9 Tarbuck Rpt. 

10 Ibid. 

11 CTF 77 Opns Rpt, Ser 00302-C, 31 Jan 45. 

12 CINCPAC and CINCPOA Rpt Opns in POA in Oct 44, Ser 002397, 31 May 45. 

13 USSBS, Employment of Forces Under the Southwest Pacific Command, p. 40. 

14 Japanese Studies in World War II, 14, Naval Air Operations in the Philippine Area, 1942–45, p. 18. (Monograph numbers cited in this volume are file designations used by OCMH.) 

15 GHQ SWPA Sum of Enemy Sit 894, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 2 Sep 44. 

16 Ibid. 

17 GHQ SWPA, Philippine Islands, G-2 Est of Enemy Sit 16, 3–9 Sep 44; 905, 13–14 Sep 44; 914, 22–23 Sep 44; 916, 24–25 Sep 44; and 907, 15–16 Sep 44; GHQ G-3 Jnl, 9–25 Sep 44. 

18 CINCPAC and CINCPOA Rpt on Opns in POA in Oct 44, Ser 002397, 31 May 45. 

19 Japanese Studies in WW II, 102, Philippine Area Naval Operations, Oct–Dec 44, Part II, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, pp. 4–11. (Hereafter cited as Philippine Naval Opns.) 

20 USSBS, Naval Analysis Div, The Campaigns of the Pacific War (Washington, 1946), p. 283. 

21 Philippine Naval Opns, pp. 5, 85–86. 

22 AAF SWPA Intel Sum, Ser 247, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 29 Oct 44. 

23 AAF SWPA Intel Sum, Ser 246, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 22 Oct 44. 

24 Rad, Com3rdFlt to CINCPAC-CINCSWPA, 170352 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 17 Oct 44. 

25 Rad, Com3rdFlt to CINCPAC and var., H 2692, 0321,15 Oct 44, AAF Hist Archives. 

26 Air Evaluation Bd SWPA Rpt, Leyte Campaign—Philippines, 1944, p. 16. 

27 Hist of FEAF, pp. 261–63, AAF Hist Archives. 

28 Air Evaluation Bd SWPA Rpt, p. 16. 

29 Rad, Com3rd Flt to CTG 38.1, 160216, 16 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 17 Oct 44. 

30 Tarbuck Rpt. 

31 CTG 77.4 Opns Rpt, Ser 00120, 15 Nov 44. 

32 Japanese Studies in WW II, 72, Hist of Army Section, Imperial General Headquarters, 1941–45, p. 131. (Hereafter cited as Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ.) 

33 Ibid., pp. 131–32. 

34 Japanese Studies in WW II, 6, 14th Area Army Plans, 1944. (Hereafter cited as 14th Area Army Plans.) 

35 The organization of Japanese forces is discussed in detail in Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ

36 Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ, pp. 140–41. 

37 Interv, 2d Lt Stanley L. Falk with General Kuroda, at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, 13 Jun 47, copy in OCMH. 

38 Ibid. 

39 Hist of Army Sec, Imperial GHQ, pp. 132–33, 135, 140, and errata sheet to above. 

40 Maj Gen Yoshiharu Tomochika, The True Facts of the Leyte Operation, p. 8, typescript of translation in OCMH. 

41 Ibid. 

42 Ibid., p. 9. 

43 Ibid., p. 8. 

44 Ibid. 

45 Statement of Lt Col Seiichi Yoshie, Circumstances Leading to the Relief of General Kuroda, 1 Oct 51, copy in OCMH. 

46 United States vs Tomoyuki Yamashita, Testimony of Yamashita, XXVIII, 3518–19, DRB AGO. 

47 Ibid., XXVIII, 3519–20. 

48 Ibid., Testimony of Muto, XXII, 2998. 

49 A. Frank Reel, The Case of General Yamashita (Chicago, 1949), pp. 18–19. 

50 USSBS Interrog 418, Interrog of Maj Gen Toshio Nishimura, 19–22 Nov 45, MS, OCMH. 

51 Tomochika, True Facts of Leyte Opn, p. 6. 

52 Ibid. 

53 Ibid. 

54 Japanese Studies in WW II, 11, 35th Army Operations 1944–45, pp. 14–20. (Hereafter cited as 35th Army Opns.) 

55 Tomochika, True Facts of Leyte Opn, p. 6. 

56 16th Division Order 821, Tacloban, 17 October 1944, translation in App. C to Annex Y, 7th Div Opns Rpt Leyte, DRB AGO. 

57 Japanese Studies in WW II, 7, 14th Area Army Operations on Leyte, p. 4 (Hereafter cited as 14th Area Army Opns Leyte.) 

58 USSBS Interrog 506, Interrog of Maj. Gen. Yoshiharu Tomochika, Oct–Dec 44, p. 2, typescript copy in OCMH. 

59 Japanese Studies in WW II, 5, 4th Air Army Operations, 1944–45, pp. 1–50. (Hereafter cited as 4th Air Army Opns.) 

60 USSBS, Interrogations, I, 160. 

61 James A. Field, Jr., The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The SHO Operation (Princeton, N. J., 1947), p. 8. 

62 USSBS, Interrogations, I, 219; II, 500–504. 

63 Unless otherwise noted the account of the activities of the 6th Ranger Infantry Battalion is taken from the 6th Ranger Infantry Battalion Operations Report Leyte. 

64 Rad, CTG 77.2 to CTF 78, 17 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 17 Oct 44. 

65 Co D, 6th Ranger Inf Bn, Opns Rpt Leyte. 

66 Msg, CTG 78.4 to Tancier, 18 Oct 44, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 18 Oct 44. 

67 Rad, GHQ to CofS, 17 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 18 Oct 44. 

68 Co B, 6th Ranger Inf Bn, Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 1. 

69 Ibid. 

70 Rad, CTG 78.5 to CTF 77, 19 Oct 44, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 19 Oct 44. 

71 Rad, Parsons to CTF 77, 78, and 79, 14 Oct 44, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 14 Oct 44. 

72 CTF 77 to COMINCH, Opns Rpt Leyte, Ser 00302-C, 31 Jan 45, p. 8. 

73 Sixth Army Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 31. 

74 Rad, CTG 77.5 to CTF 77, 19 Oct 44, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 19 Oct 44. 

75 Rpt, COMINCH, Amph Opns—Invasion of the Philippines, COMINCH P-008, pp. 1–3. 

76 CTG 77.2 to CTF 77, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 19 Oct 44. 

77 Rpt, CTF 77 to COMINCH, Amph Opn P-008, pp. 1–3. 

78 CTG 79.1 Movement Order, A173–44, 9 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 16 Oct 44. 

79 Opns Rpt CTG 79.1 to CTF 79, Ser 00454, 26 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 15 Nov 44. 

80 Msg, CTF 77 to CINCSWPA, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 18 Oct 44. 

81 Msg, CINCSWPA to CTF 77, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 18 Oct 44. 

82 Tarbuck Rpt. 

83 Opns Rpt CTF 79 to Com7thFlt, Ser 00323, 13 Nov 44, p. 71. 

84 Japanese Studies 11, 35th Army Opns, p. 24.