[27] USBSS, Interrogations, I, 44. [↑]
[28] CTU 77.4.3 Opns Rpt, Ser 00100, 29 Oct 44, Incl B, p. 2. [↑]
[29] Woodward, Battle for Leyte Gulf, p. 229. [↑]
[30] Sixth Army Opns Rpt Leyte, p. 43. [↑]
[31] Ltr, Adm Halsey to Gen Ward, 6 Jul 51, OCMH. [↑]
[32] Hist of V Fighter Comd, Ch. 4, Jul-Dec 44, p. 73, AAF Hist Archives. [↑]
[33] Sixth Army G-3 Wasatch Jnl, 21 Oct 44. [↑]
[34] Opns Rpt, CSA Seventh Flt to Comdr Seventh Flt, no ser, 2 Nov 44. [↑]
[35] AAF Evaluation Bd POA Rpt 3, The Occupation of Leyte, Philippine Islands, pp. 27 and 15. This report was prepared by Brig. Gen. Martin F. Scanlon, who accompanied the XXIV Corps to Leyte as an air observer for the Army Air Forces in the Central Pacific. By close support is meant operating to the immediate front of the first-line troops. [↑]