Chapter I: Front Matter

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
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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

Maj. Gen. Albert C. Smith, Chief [1]

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