Return To The Philippines

Author : M. Hamlin Cannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leyte written by M. Hamlin Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James P. Duffy
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 030692191X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Victory written by James P. Duffy and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Douglas MacArthur's bloody campaign to defeat die-hard Japanese forces and liberate the Philippines “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur promised the Filipino people following the Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines in spring 1942. The people there believed MacArthur’s vow—and even Americans were stirred by his dramatic pledge. Now, two and half years later, MacArthur was ready to fulfill his promise--the liberation of the Philippines was about to begin. It would not be an easy campaign. The more than 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago were the key to taking down the Japanese Empire—and the Imperial forces were prepared to sacrifice every man and every ship to prevent MacArthur from regaining control of them. Covering both the strategic and tactical aspects of the campaign through the participation of its soldiers, sailors, and airmen, as well as its commanders, James P. Duffy leads readers through a vivid account of the nearly year-long, bloody campaign to defeat over a quarter million die-hard Japanese defenders in the Pacific theater. Return to Victory is a wide-ranging, dramatic and stirring account of MacArthur’s epic liberation of the Philippines.

Author : Rafael Steinberg
Publisher : Time Life Education
ISBN 13 : 9780783557090
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to the Philippines written by Rafael Steinberg and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the strategy, battles, and major personalities involved in the recapture of the Philippine Islands during World War II.

Author : Clayton K. S. Chun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472806921
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leyte 1944 written by Clayton K. S. Chun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William B. Breuer
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780312907884
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retaking the Philippines written by William B. Breuer and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume on the liberation of the Philippines that concentrates on events from July 1944 through March 1945.

Author : Rafael Steinberg
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to the Philippines written by Rafael Steinberg and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the strategy, battles, and major personalities involved in the recapture of the Philippine Islands during World War II.

Author : Robert Ross Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.9C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Triumph in the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconquest of the Philippine archipelago (exclusive of Leyte), with detailed accounts of Sixth Army and Eighth Army operations on Luzon, as well as of the Eighth Army's reoccupation of the southern Philippines.

Author : Louis Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Philippines written by Louis Morton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James K Morningstar
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682476294
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 written by James K Morningstar and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur's return in October 1944. No book has comprehensively examined the Filipino resistance during this crucial period. Here, James Kelly Morningstar provides for the first time a comprehensive history of the protracted fighting by 260,000 guerrillas in 277 units across the archipelago. Beginning with the Japanese occupation, the collapse of the United States Forces, Far East (USAFFE), and the simultaneous rise of the complex, diverse Philippine guerrilla movements, Morningstar exposes the inadequacy of MacArthur's conventional plans while revealing his inchoate preparation for guerrilla resistance. Morningstar then recounts in detail the impromptu resistance led by refugee American and Filipino soldiers, local politicians, and social revolutionaries left to battle the Japanese--and each other--with emphasis on how Japanese, American, and Filipino actions influenced and proscribed each other. From a distance, MacArthur contacted select guerrillas and organized agents to deliver supplies and radios to them by submarine. In this way he empowered some to gain power as part of a united framework under his leadership. This not only kept alive the resistance that denied the Japanese exploitation of the Philippines while setting the conditions for MacArthur's return, it also ensured that no one guerrilla leader could challenge America's supremacy. MacArthur's selective support to guerrilla groups that encouraged continued Filipino dependence on the United States would prove fatal for the incipient Maoist social revolution on Luzon. Even so, the Filipinos' shared sacrifice in their act of resistance fueled a national consciousness that created a sense of deserved nationhood. War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 concludes with a brief discussion of legacies of the guerrilla resistance. MacArthur's return reestablished the power of American and Filipino political elites. Guerrillas and other citizens who had experienced exceptional hardship now had to fight for recognition. However, the war had resulted in a more united Philippine national identity along with new political institutions to repair the divisions between the formerly exiled government, the collaborationists, and the members of resistance. These momentous years of struggle in the Philippines changed the tide of history and challenge our understanding of war and resistance.

Author : Louis G. Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan written by Louis G. Morton and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: