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