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Author : United States. Naval Operations Office (Navy Department)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113790831
Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Aerology Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Leyte Island (Philippines)
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030039863313
Author : M. Hamlin Cannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Leyte Island (Philippines)
ISBN : LCCN:53061979
With the Leyte Campaign the War in the Pacific entered a decisive stage. The period of limited offensives, bypassing, and island hopping was virtually over. American troops in greater numbers than ever before assembled in the Pacific Theater, supported by naval and air forces of corresponding size, fought and overcame Japanese forces of greater magnitude than any previously met. Though the spotlight is on the front-line fighting, the reader will find in this volume a faithful description of all arms and services performing their missions. The account is not exclusively an infantry story. It covers as well the support of ground fighting on Leyte by large-scale naval operations and by land-based air power under the most adverse conditions. In addition, careful attention to logistical matters, such as the movement of supplies and the evacuation of the wounded, gives the reader a picture of the less spectacular activities of an army in battle.
Author : Nathan N. Prefer
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001555
When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself. Originally intending to delay the advancing Americans, the Japanese high command decided to make Leyte the "Decisive Battle" for the western Pacific and rushed crack Imperial Army units from Manchuria, Korea, and Japan itself to halt and then overwhelm the Americans on Leyte. As were most battles in the Pacific, it was a long, bloody, and brutal fight. As did the Japanese, the Americans were forced to rush in reinforcements to compensate for the rapid increase in Japanese forces on Leyte. This unique battle also saw a major Japanese counterattackÑnot a banzai charge, but a carefully thought-out counteroffensive designed to push the Americans off the island and capture the elusive General MacArthur. Both American and Japanese battalions spent days surrounded by the enemy, often until relieved or overwhelmed. Under General YamashitaÕs guidance it also saw a rare deployment of Japanese paratroopers in conjunction with the ground assault offensive. Finally there were more naval and air battles, all designed to protect or cover landing operations of friendly forces. Leyte was a three-dimensional battle, fought with the best both sides had to offer, and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II.
Author : Clayton K. S. Chun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472806918
The loss of the Philippines in 1942 was the worst defeat in American military history. General Douglas MacArthur, the 'Lion of Luzon', was evacuated by order of the President just before the fall, but he vowed to return, and in August 1944 he kept his word when he led what, at the time, was the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War on the island of Leyte. This is the full story of that fateful battle, one of the most ferocious campaigns of World War II and one of huge strategic and symbolic significance. In the face of stubborn Japanese resistance, including the first systematic use of Kamikaze attacks, the US forces ground slowly forwards before another amphibious assault took the vital position of Ormoc in the last decisive battle of the campaign. Based on extensive research in the US Army's Military History Institute, along with other archival and veteran sources, this important study sheds new light on the operation that saw the US finally return to the Philippines and in doing so placed another nail firmly in the coffin of the Japanese Empire.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Amphibious warfare
ISBN : 9781576380864
Author : United States. Army. Forces, Pacific
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : MINN:31951T002511507
Author : United States. Army. Forces, Pacific
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015027335309
Author : Hugh John Casey,United States. Army. Forces, Pacific
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : PURD:32754064866084
Author : Thomas J. Cutler
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032581558
This riveting, blow-by-blow account recounts the dramatic story of the fiercest naval battle in the history of warfare--the U.S.-Japanese conflict at Leyte Gulf. Published on the 50th anniversary of the event, this riveting history presents the true, inside story of the military loss that sounded the death knell for the Japanese Navy.
Author : Robin L. Rielly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786474226
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.
Author : Milan Vego
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511719
One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies’ first and most important major combined operation to liberate the Philippine archipelago. The stakes were high: a successful landing at Leyte was critical to a subsequent assault on Luzon and total control of the Philippines. If Japan lost the Philippines, its supply of oil and other strategic raw materials would be cut off and its navy doomed to an inglorious end. In this comprehensive study, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject addresses all aspects of the two-month-long ground, sea, and air invasion, and presents a complete evaluation of theater-wide command, organization, intelligence, and logistics. Drawing on a wealth of Allied and Japanese primary documents and countless secondary sources, Milan Vego describes and analyzes the operational planning and preparation as well as the execution of actions on both sides. Focusing on the operational versus tactical aspects of the struggle, he critically assesses the major decisions made by the senior commanders. His access to the Allied Magic radio intercepts allows him to shed light on what Allied and Japanese commanders knew and did not know about each other. Unlike other books on the subject, Vego provides the reader with detailed analysis of the operational lessons learned that can be taken away from the engagement. A large number of maps, figures, and tables enhance the text.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Landing craft
ISBN : 9781563112621
Author : Theodore L Gatchel
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514307
Conventional military wisdom holds that the amphibious assault against a defended beach is the most difficult of all military operations--yet modern amphibious landings have been almost universally successful. This apparent contradiction is fully explored in this first look at 20th-century amphibious warfare from the perspective of the defender. The author, Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.), examines amphibious operations from Gallipoli to the Falkland Islands to determine why the defenders were unable to prevent the attackers from landing or to throw them back into the sea after they had fought their way ashore. He places the reader in the defenders' shoes as such epic battles as Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Inchon are planned and fought, and then uses these cases to explain why the defenders were unable to successfully defend against enemy landings. A practitioner, teacher, and student of amphibious warfare, Colonel Gatchel follows those explanations with speculations on how a defender today might try to stop a landing and on the implications of such actions for future amphibious operations.
Author : JOHN. GREHAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526770393
On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assisted by ships from the Royal Australian Navy. The Japanese were aware that the Americans were poised to attack the Philippines and planned to draw the American warships into one last great battle to try and stave off the otherwise inevitable defeat. Over the course of the following three days, the two naval forces engaged in four separate engagements. Involving more than 360 ships and 200,000 naval personnel, the battle was the greatest naval encounter of the World War II and possibly the largest naval battle in history. The result was disastrous for the Japanese who lost three battleships, four aircraft carriers, ten cruisers and eleven destroyers, along with almost 300 aircraft - the greatest loss of ships and crew the Japanese had ever experienced. In Battle of Leyte Gulf, the actions of the warships as well as the accompanying amphibious landings on Leyte by the U.S. Sixth Army are vividly revealed through a dramatic collection of photographs depicting the ships, sailors, airmen and soldiers who made history.