Front matter
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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. Baxter Brig. Gen. Verdi B. Barnes
President, Williams College Army War College
John D. Hicks Brig. Gen. Leonard J. Greeley
University of California Industrial College of the Armed Forces
William T. Hutchinson Brig. Gen. Elwyn D. Post
University of Chicago Army Field Forces
S. L. A. Marshall Col. Thomas D. Stamps
Detroit News United States Military Academy
Charles S. Sydnor Col. C. E. Beauchamp
Duke University Command and General Staff College
Charles H. Taylor
Harvard University
Office of the Chief of Military History
Chief Historian Kent Roberts Greenfield
Chief, War Histories Division Col. G. G. O’Connor
Chief, Editorial and Publication Division Col. B. A. Day
Chief, Editorial Branch Joseph R. Friedman
Chief, Cartographic Branch Wsevolod Aglaimoff
Chief, Photographic Branch Maj. Arthur T. Lawry
The History of
THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
prepared under the direction of Louis Morton
The Fall of the Philippines
Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
Victory in Papua
Cartwheel: The Reduction of Rabaul
Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls
Campaign in the Marianas
The Approach to the Philippines
Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
Triumph in the Philippines
Okinawa: The Last Battle
Strategy, Command, and Administration
... to Those Who Served