Combined Chiefs of Staff: [1n], [2], [9] Combined Fleet: 45. See also Battle of Leyte Gulf; Japanese naval units.
absence of, in Philippine waters, prerequisite for Leyte Campaign: [24]
in action off Formosa: [44]
command of: [46], [54], [88]
co-operation with Army: [53]–54
estimate of use of: [22]
missions of: [46]–48, [54]
and missions of Central Pacific naval forces: [30]
operations of: [89]–92
plans of: [46]–49, [88]–89
Suzuki on ability of: [50]
Command, Allied
for Campaign: [24]–26
co-ordination of: [27], [31]
line of: [23], [24], [31], [244]
for Ormoc operation: [277]
Command, Japanese: [46], [50]–51
Commander in Chief, U. S. Fleet. See King, Admiral Ernest J.
Communications
difficulties of: [115]
effectiveness of: [112]
radio: [19]–20, [112]
supply of: [111]
Third Fleet to protect: [30]
Construction: [306]–08. See also Logistics.
Consuegra: [228], [229], [231]–32, [234]
Contact, lateral. See Lateral liaison.
Convoys, Japanese
attacked: [93], [98]–99, [208], [210], [281]–83
reinforcing Leyte forces: [99]–102
Convoys, U. S.: [38], [216]
composition of: [40], [41]–42
entrance into Leyte Gulf: [58]–59
formation of: [38], [40]–41, [55]–57
protection for: [27] Conyngham: [283]