Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
by M. Hamlin Cannon
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Contents
- Foreword
- The Author
- Preface
- Tables
- The Strategic Plan
- The Nature of the Target
- Plans Are Made and Forces Are Readied
- The Return
- A Day: 20 October 1944
- The Japanese Reaction
- Southern Leyte Valley: Part One
- Southern Leyte Valley: Part Two
- Northern Leyte Valley: Part One
- Northern Leyte Valley: Part Two
- Logistics and Civil Affairs
- The Mountain Barrier: Part One
- The Mountain Barrier: Part Two
- Measure of the Fighting
- Battle of the Ridges
- The Fall of Ormoc
- Battle of the Airstrips
- Logistics
- The Entrances to Ormoc Valley
- Seizure of Ormoc Valley
- Westward to the Sea
- Leyte Is Liberated
- Appendix A
- Basic Military Map Symbols
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliographical Note
- United States Army in World War II
- Colophon