[58] USSBS Interrog 506, Interrog of Maj. Gen. Yoshiharu Tomochika, Oct–Dec 44, p. 2, typescript copy in OCMH. [↑]

[59] Japanese Studies in WW II, 5, 4th Air Army Operations, 1944–45, pp. 1–50. (Hereafter cited as 4th Air Army Opns.) [↑]

[60] USSBS, Interrogations, I, 160. [↑]

[61] James A. Field, Jr., The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The SHO Operation (Princeton, N. J., 1947), p. 8. [↑]

[62] USSBS, Interrogations, I, 219; II, 500–504. [↑]

[63] Unless otherwise noted the account of the activities of the 6th Ranger Infantry Battalion is taken from the 6th Ranger Infantry Battalion Operations Report Leyte. [↑]

[64] Rad, CTG 77.2 to CTF 78, 17 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 17 Oct 44. [↑]

[65] Co D, 6th Ranger Inf Bn, Opns Rpt Leyte. [↑]

[66] Msg, CTG 78.4 to Tancier, 18 Oct 44, Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 18 Oct 44. [↑]

[67] Rad, GHQ to CofS, 17 Oct 44, GHQ G-3 Jnl, 18 Oct 44. [↑]