Leyte 1944   Return to the Philippines
epub | 50.34 MB | English |  Clayton Chun |  2015 | Osprey Publishing

About Leyte 1944   Return to the Philippines :

The  loss of the Phillipines 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 the largest  amphibious assault of the Pacific War to date 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. Preceding it had been the largest naval battle ever  fought: the battle of Leyte Gulf, in which the Imperial Japanese Navy  was decisively crushed. This paved the way for four divisions of  Lieutenant-General Krueger's Sixth Army to spear-head the assault. 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 ...

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