Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

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UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
The War in the Pacific
LEYTE: THE RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., 1954

This volume, one of the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, is the fifth to be published in the subseries THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. All the volumes will be closely related, and the series will present a comprehensive account of the activities of the Military Establishment during World War II. A tentative list of subseries is appended at the end of this volume.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 53—61979

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C.—Price of this volume, $6.75 (Cloth)

UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II

Kent Roberts Greenfield, General Editor

Advisory Committee

(As of 1 May 1953)

James P. Baxter Brig. Gen. Verdi B. Barnes
President, Williams College Army War College
John D. Hicks Brig. Gen. Leonard J. Greeley
University of California Industrial College of the Armed Forces
William T. Hutchinson Brig. Gen. Elwyn D. Post
University of Chicago Army Field Forces
S. L. A. Marshall Col. Thomas D. Stamps
Detroit News United States Military Academy
Charles S. Sydnor Col. C. E. Beauchamp
Duke University Command and General Staff College
Charles H. Taylor
Harvard University

Office of the Chief of Military History

Maj. Gen. Albert C. Smith, Chief1

Chief Historian Kent Roberts Greenfield
Chief, War Histories Division Col. G. G. O’Connor
Chief, Editorial and Publication Division Col. B. A. Day
Chief, Editorial Branch Joseph R. Friedman
Chief, Cartographic Branch Wsevolod Aglaimoff
Chief, Photographic Branch Maj. Arthur T. Lawry


1 Maj. Gen. Orlando Ward was succeeded by General Smith on 1 February 1953. 

The History of

THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC

prepared under the direction of Louis Morton

  • The Fall of the Philippines
  • Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
  • Victory in Papua
  • Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul
  • Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls
  • Campaign in the Marianas
  • The Approach to the Philippines
  • Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
  • Triumph in the Philippines
  • Okinawa: The Last Battle
  • Strategy, Command, and Administration

... to Those Who Served

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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