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. BaxterBrig. Gen. Verdi B. Barnes
President, Williams CollegeArmy War College
John D. HicksBrig. Gen. Leonard J. Greeley
University of CaliforniaIndustrial College of the Armed Forces
William T. HutchinsonBrig. Gen. Elwyn D. Post
University of ChicagoArmy Field Forces
S. L. A. MarshallCol. Thomas D. Stamps
Detroit NewsUnited States Military Academy
Charles S. SydnorCol. C. E. Beauchamp
Duke UniversityCommand and General Staff College
Charles H. Taylor
HarvardUniversity

Office of the Chief of Military History

Maj. Gen. Albert C. Smith, Chief[1]

Chief HistorianKent Roberts Greenfield
Chief, War Histories DivisionCol. G. G. O’Connor
Chief, Editorial and Publication DivisionCol. B. A. Day
Chief, Editorial BranchJoseph R. Friedman
Chief, Cartographic BranchWsevolod Aglaimoff
Chief, Photographic BranchMaj. 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

... to Those Who Served