Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

by M. Hamlin Cannon

Valtin, Jan [Richard J. Krebs], Children of Yesterday (New York, The Reader’s Press, 1946). An excellent popular account of the activities of the 24th Division.

Verbeck, Col. W. J., A Regiment in Action, (n. p., n. d., privately printed, copy in OCMH). The story of the 21st Infantry Regiment which consists mainly of excerpts from the operations reports and journals of higher echelons.

Woodward, C. Vann, The Battle for Leyte Gulf (New York, The Macmillan Co., 1947). An extremely readable popular account based upon American and Japanese sources and interviews with which Dr. Woodward became acquainted while an officer on duty with the Office of Naval Intelligence during the war. The book is valuable in spite of a few minor errors of fact.

UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II

The multivolume series, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, consists of a number of subseries which are tentatively planned as follows: The War Department, The Army Air Forces, The Army Ground Forces, The Army Service Forces, The Defense of the Western Hemisphere, The War in the Pacific, The European Theater of Operations, The War in the Mediterranean, The Middle East Theater, The China-Burma-India Theater, Civil Affairs, The Technical Services, Special Studies, and Pictorial Record.

The following volumes have been published or are in press:[1]

• The War Department
  • Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations
  • Washington Command Post: The Operations Division
  • Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1941–1942
• The Army Ground Forces
  • The Organization of Ground Combat Troops
  • The Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops
• The Army Service Forces
  • The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces
• The War in the Pacific
  • Okinawa: The Last Battle
  • Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
  • The Approach to the Philippines
  • The Fall of the Philippines
  • Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
• The European Theater of Operations
  • The Lorraine Campaign
  • Cross-Channel Attack
  • Logistical Support of the Armies (Volume I)
  • The Supreme Command
• The Middle East Theater
  • The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia
• The China-Burma-India Theater
  • Stilwell’s Mission to China
• • The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations
  • The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume I
  • The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War
• The Technical Services
  • Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt
  • The Women’s Army Corps
• Special Studies
  • The War Against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and Adjacent Areas
  • The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas
  • The War Against Japan
• Pictorial Record

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