UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
The War in the Pacific
LEYTE: THE RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES
by M. Hamlin Cannon
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 | |
| HarvardUniversity | |
Office of the Chief of Military History
Maj. Gen. Albert C. Smith, Chief[1]
| 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