Illustrations
Reading edition
Page
Conference at Pearl Harbor 5
Guerrillas Prepare for Inspection at Consuegra 15
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita 51
Lt. Gen. Sosaku Suzuki 51
Patrol of Company F, 6th Rangers 56
Convoy Off Leyte 61
Landing Beaches 63
Troops of the 1st Cavalry Division 66
75-mm. M8 Self-Propelled Howitzers 70
Maj. Gen. Franklin C. Sibert 71
Beach Area 75
Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger and Col. Ruperto K. Kangleon 79
Unloading Supplies at Dulag 81
Japanese Air Attacks 87
Air Strikes Against Japanese Installations 95
Antiaircraft Gun 97
Lockheed P-38 98
Japanese Convoy Under Attack 100
Landing Areas and Leyte Valley 106
Crew of a Light Armored Car M8 109
Filipino Civilian Guides U. S. Tank 113
San Vicente Hill 118
105-mm. Self-Propelled Howitzer M7 Firing 120
Dulag and Bayug Airstrips 126
Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge 127
Disabled M4 Tank 132
Burauen 134
Engineer Troops 140
A Patrol From the 7th Cavalry 149
Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge 150
8-inch Howitzers Readied for Action 151
General MacArthur 153
Proclamation to the People of the Philippine Islands 154
Tacloban 156
Tank-Supported Infantrymen of the 34th Regiment 160
Palo 162
Pastrana 172
U. S. Antitank Platoon 174
155-mm. Guns Firing on Carigara 180
U. S. Patrol Crossing the Canomontag River 182
Access Road From White Beach 186
Tanauan Airstrip 189
LST’s Unloading at Tacloban Airfield 191
Road Conditions 193
A Litter Squad Evacuates a Casualty 196
A Casualty Receives Treatment 196
An Operating Room at the Station Hospital, Tanauan 197
A Casualty is Evacuated by Ship to a Rear Area 197
An Officer of a Civil Affairs Unit 200
Refugee Area on Orange Beach Near Dulag 202
Engineers Remove Land Mines 214
View From the Ridges Looking North up the Limon Valley 217
American Troops in Limon 226
Lt. Col. Thomas E. Clifford, Jr. 229
Filipino Carriers Haul Supplies 236
Foothills of Central Mountain Range 238
General MacArthur and Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold 245
Troops of the 77th Division Board LCI’s at Tarragona 281
Convoy Carrying 77th Division Approaches Deposito 282
A Patrol of the 307th Infantry 288
Aerial View of Ormoc 292
Buri Airstrip 299
San Pablo Airstrip 301
Operational Losses at the Burauen Airfields 307
Approach Road to Quartermaster Service Center 309
Heavy Machine Guns Cover Crossing 315
U. S. and Japanese Tanks 327
Japanese Dug-in Positions Along Highway Banks 332
Japanese Light Tank 335
Palompon After Allied Bombings 350
All illustrations but one are from Department of Defense files. The photograph of Lt. Gen. Sosaku Suzuki on page 51 was contributed by Lt. Roger Pineau (USNR).