Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 1944 - July 2002

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BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

D 767.4 .A5 1945
Allied Forces. Southwest Pacific Area. Basic Outline Plan for Musketeer II, 29 August 1944. S.l.: s.n., 1944.

D 767.4 .A51 1944
----------. Staff Study: Operation "King-Two," Musketeer Operations. S.l.: s.n., 1944.

D 767.4 .U52
Amphibious Operations: Invasion of the Philippines, October 1944 to January 1945. Washington: U.S. Fleet, Headquarters of the Commander in Chief, 1945.

D 774 .P5 A53 1994
Anderson, Charles Robert. Leyte. Washington: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1994.

D 742 .B34
Baldwin, Hanson W. Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War II. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

G 525 .B25
----------. Sea Fights and Shipwrecks: True Tales of the Seven Seas. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1955. (See pages 134-182, The Sho Plan: The Battle for Leyte Gulf)

D 767.4 .U536
Bates, Richard W. The Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 1944: Strategical and Tactical Analysis. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1953-1958.

D 767.4 .U53
Battle Experience: Battle for Leyte Gulf; Battle of Surigao Strait; Battle off Samar; Battle off Cape Engano (East of Luzon) 23-27 October 1944. Washington: U.S. Fleet, Headquarters of the Commander in Chief, 1945.

V 63 .K56 B8
Buell, Thomas B. Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. (See pages 474-479)

D 767.4 .U5195
Cannon, M. Hamlin. Leyte: The Return to the Philippines. Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1954.

D 790 .A47 v.5
Craven, Wesley F. and James L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948-1958. (See pages 341-389)

D 774 .P5 .C8 1989
Crowell, Charles D. SHO-1 vs. King II—Victory at Leyte Gulf—Was It United States Luck or Japanese Mistakes? Carlisle Barracks, PA: Army War College, 1989.

D 774 .P5 C87 1994
Cutler, Thomas J. The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23-26 October, 1944. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

D 777 .A6
D’Albas, Andrieu. Death of a Navy. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1957.

D 769.26 8th E35
Eichelberger, Robert L. Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. New York: Viking, 1950.

D 767.4 .F3
Falk, Stanley L. Decision at Leyte. New York: Norton, 1966.

D 777 .F5
Field, James A. The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.

D 25 .F93
Fuller, J. F. C. A Military History of the Western World. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954-56. (See volume 3, From the Seven Days Battle, 1862, to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944)

D 769.369 .U62 v.4
Garand, George W. and Truman R. Strobridge. Western Pacific Operations: History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Washington: Historical Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1971.

D 767.4 .G8
Graziano, Paul E. Leyte Invasion: A Comparative Analysis of the Application of Principles of War. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Command and Staff College, Air University, 1984.

E 745 .H2
Halsey, William F. and Joseph Bryan III. Admiral Halsey’s Story. New York: Whittlesey House, 1947. (Special Collections)

D 767.2 .H3
Hayashi, Saburo. Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Quantico, VA: The Marine Corps Association, 1959.

D 774 .P5 H7
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Death Knell of the Japanese Fleet. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1972.

D 774 .G23 H69
----------. The Men of the Gambier Bay. Middlebury, VT: P.S. Eriksson, 1979.

D 792 .J3 I6
Inoguchi, Rikihei and Tadachi Nakajima. The Divine Wind; Japan’s Kamikaze Force in World War II. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1958.

E 745 .M2 J3
James, D. Clayton. The Years of MacArthur. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1975. (See volume II: 1941-1945)

D 777 .J3
The Japanese Navy in World War II: An Anthology of Articles by Former Officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Defense Force. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1969.

MF/AD A209 223
Jefferson, Kenny J. Jointness or Jointless at Leyte. Carlisle Barracks, PA: Army War College, 1989.

D 773 .K14 2
Karig, Walter. Battle Report. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944-52. (See volume 4, The End of an Empire)

D 769.26 6th .K8
Kruegar, Walter. From Down Under to Nippon: The Story of Sixth Army in World War II. Washington: Combat Forces Press, 1953.

D 767.9 .W4
Leary, William M. We Shall Return!: MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942-1945. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. (See index, Leyte Gulf, Battle of)

D 773 .L57
Lockwood, Charles A. and Hans C. Adamson. Battles of the Philippine Sea. New York: Crowell, 1967.

E 745 .M2 A34
MacArthur, Douglas. Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

D 735 .S8
----------. Reports of General MacArthur. Washington: GPO, 1966. (See volume 1, chapter VIII: The Leyte Operation, and volume 2, part 2, chapter XIII: Struggle for Leyte)

D 767 .M2
Macintyre, Donald. The Battle for the Pacific. New York: Norton, 1966.

D 774 .P5 M3
----------. Leyte Gulf: Armada in the Pacific. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.

D 769 .A563 1959
Matloff, Maurice. Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944. Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Dept. of the Army, 1959.

V 63 .H34 M4
Merrill, James M. A Sailor’s Admiral: A Biography of William F. Halsey. New York: Crowell, 1976.

D 792 .J3 M5
Millot, Bernard. Divine Thunder: The Life and Death of the Kamikazes. New York: McCall, 1971.

D 767.4 .M5
Montman, James H. The Military Strategies of Spruance and Halsey. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Command and Staff College, Air University, 1984.

D 773 .M82 v.12
Morison, Samuel E. Leyte, June 1944-January 1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.

D 773 .M82 v.13
----------. The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944-1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

D 773 .M84
----------. The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

D 777 .J3 1986
O’Connor, Raymond Gish and David C. Evans. The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986. (See chapter 11, The Battle of Leyte Gulf)

E 746 .H3 P6
Potter, E.B. Bull Halsey. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985.

V 63 .N5 P7
----------. Nimitz. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976. (See chapter 20, Return to the Philippines)

D 770 .P6
---------- and Chester W. Nimitz. The Great Sea War: The Story of Naval Action in World War II. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960.

D 773 .P6
----------. Triumph in the Pacific: The Navy’s Struggle against Japan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. (See chapter 5, The Battle for Leyte Gulf)

D 770 .P96
Puleston, W. D. The Influence of Sea Power in World War II. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947.

V 874 .R4
Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy. Huntington, NY: R.E. Krieger, 1978. (See pages 255-300)

D 774 .P5 R6 1993
Robertson, D. C. Operations Analysis: The Battle for Leyte Gulf. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1993.

D 771 .R68
Roskill, Stephen W. The War at Sea 1939-1945. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1961. (See vol. III, The Offensive; Part II, 1st June 1944-14th August 1945)

D 773 .S52
Sherman, Frederick C. Combat Command: The American Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War. New York: Dutton, 1950. (See chapter 15, Leyte and the Battle for Leyte Gulf)

D 790 .S5
Sherrod, Robert. History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. Washington: Combat Forces Press, 1952.

D 769.369 .S75
Smith, Stanley E. The United States Marine Corps in World War II. New York: Random House, 1969. (See pages 694-708, Marine Air Groups at Leyte by Captain John De Chant)

D 774 .P5 S65 1995
Solberg, Carl. Decision and Dissent: With Halsey at Leyte Gulf. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

D 767 .S69
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985. (See chapter 19, Where Is Task Force 34?)

D 767.4 .S3
St. John, Joseph F. and Howard Handleman. Leyte Calling. New York: Vanguard Press, 1945.

D 767.4 .S8
Steinberg, Rafael. Return to the Philippines. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1979. (See chapter 3, Fight for Leyte)

D 770 .S83 1988
Stephen, Martin and Eric Grove. Sea Battles in Close-Up: World War 2. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988-1993. (See volume 2)

D 774 .P5 .S78
Stewart, Adrian. The Battle of Leyte Gulf. New York: Scribner’s, 1979.

E 182 .G76 1998
Sweetman, Jack. Great American Naval Battles. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. (See chapter 17, The Battle of Leyte Gulf)

D 767.2 .T7
Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. New York: Random House, 1970.

D 767.4 .U513
U.S. Army. 6th Army. Report of the Leyte Operation, 17 October 1944-25 December 1944. S.l.: s.n., 1945. (Special Collections)

D 767.4 .A513 1944 & D767.4 .A513 1945
U.S. Army. 7th Division. Operation Report 7th Infantry Division King II. S.l.: s.n., 1945?

D 767.4 .A514
----------. King Two; Field Order 9. S.l.: s.n., 1944.

D 767.4 .A543 1946
U.S. Army. 8th Army. Report of the Commanding General, Eighth Army, on the Panay-Negros and Cebu Operations, Victor I and II. S.l., 1946.

D 767.4 .A546
U.S. Army. 8th Army. Report of the Commanding General, Eighth U.S. Army on the Leyte-Samar Operation Including Clearance of the Visayan Passages, 26 December 1944-8 May 1945. S.l.,1945.

D 777 .U6
U.S. Far East Command. The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. Tokyo: s.n., 1952.

D 777 .U5 1947
U.S. Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee. Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses during World War II by All Causes. Washington: GPO, 1947.

D 790 .U59
U.S. Marine Corps. Marine Aviation in the Philippines. Washington, 1951.

D 767.4 .U8
U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. Operation Plan no. 8-44, CINCPOA. S.l.: s.n., 1944.

D 785 .U63 no. 71a
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. Air Campaigns of the Pacific War. Washington: GPO, 1947.

D 785 .U63 no. 73
----------. The Campaigns of the Pacific War. Washington: GPO, 1946. (See chapter XII)

D 785 .U63 no. 72
----------. Interrogations of Japanese Officials. Washington: GPO, 1946. (See page 219)

D 810 .C88 V3
Van der Rhoer, Edward. Deadly Magic: A Personal Account of Communications Intelligence in World War II in the Pacific. New York: Scribner’s, 1978.

D 767.9 .V36 1991
Van der Vat, Dan. The Pacific Campaign: World War II, the U.S.-Japanese Naval War, 1941-1945. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

D 767.4 .W6
Woodward, Comer Vann. The Battle for Leyte Gulf. New York: Macmillan, 1947.

PZ 3 .W93
Wouk, Herman. War and Remembrance, a Novel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. (See chapters 86-88 and 90-92)

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PERIODICALS

Ahlstrom, John D. "Leyte Gulf Remembered." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 110, no. 8, Aug. 1984, pp. 45-53.

Bernstein, Marc D. "He Predicted Leyte Gulf." Naval History, vol. 15, no. 5, Oct. 2001, pp. 26-29.

Bruns, John E. "Naval Operation Art Analysis: U.S. Submarine Operations at the Battle of Leyte Gulf." Submarine Review, July 1996, pp. 75-82.

Caldwell, H. H. "DARTER and DACE at Leyte Gulf." Submarine Review, July 2001, pp. 63-68.

Cutler, Thomas J. "Greatest of All Sea Battles." Naval History, vol. 8, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1994, pp. 10-18.

Elliott, John M. "Back to the Philippines." Naval Aviation News, vol. 77, no. 3, Mar./Apr. 1995, pp. 28-33.

Falk, Stanley L. "Leyte—Big Risks and High Stakes." Army, vol. 44, no. 9, Sept. 1994, pp. 56-62.

----------. "Leyte Gulf: A Bibliography of the Greatest Sea Battle." Naval History, vol. 2, no. 4, Fall 1988, pp. 60-61.

Field, James A., Jr. "Leyte Gulf—The First Uncensored Japanese Account." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 77, no. 3, Mar. 1951, pp. 255-265.

Fooks, H. E. "The Battle for Leyte Gulf." Royal United Service Institution Journal, vol. 94, no. 573, Feb. 1949, pp.67-81.

Halsey, William F. "The Battle for Leyte Gulf." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 78, no. 5, May 1952, pp. 487-495.

Hamilton, Andrew. "Where Is Task Force Thirty-Four?" Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 86, no. 10, Oct. 1960, pp. 76-80.

Kennedy, David M. "Victory at Sea." Atlantic Monthly, vol. 283, no. 3, Mar. 1999, pp. 51-56 +.

Koyanagi, Tomyi. "With Kurita in the Battle for Leyte Gulf." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 79, no. 2, Feb. 1953, pp. 119-133.

Lepotier. "Submarines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf." Military Review, vol. 30, no. 9, Dec. 1950, pp. 102-108.

"Leyte Gulf." Naval History, vol. 9, no. 3, June 1995, pp. 47-49.

"Map: The Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944." Naval History, vol. 9, no. 3, June 1995, p. 31.

McCormick, James A. "Dilemma of the Gulf." Our Navy, vol. 59, no. 1, Jan. 1964, pp. 8-9 +.

Mueller, William B. "Japan’s Greatest Gamble; Leyte Gulf." Our Navy, vol. 59, no. 9, Oct. 1964, pp. 12-13 +.

Popham, Harry. "Eyewitness to Tragedy: Death of USS Princeton." World War II, vol. 12, no. 1, May 1997, pp. 50-56.

Reilly, John C. "Victory at Leyte Gulf." Naval Aviation News, vol. 76, no. 6, Sept./Oct. 1994, pp. 34-40.

Schwab, Ernest L. "The Saga of the Double Ds’." Naval History, vol. 8, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 1994, pp. 19-21.

Sweetman, Jack. "Leyte Gulf." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 120, no. 10, Oct. 1994, pp. 56-58.

Toyama, Saburo. "Lessons from the Past." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 108, no. 9, Sept. 1982, pp. 62-69.

Van Vleet, Clarke. "Battle of Leyte Gulf." Naval Aviation News, Oct. 1974, pp. 32-35.

Vego, Milan N. "The Sho-1 Plan." Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, vol. 120, no. 10, Oct. 1994, pp. 61-63.

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

AVFL-202 (Videorecording)
Aitken, Andrew, et al. Battlefield. Alexandria, VA: Time Life Video, 1994. (See volume 21 and volume 22)

Audio C88
Cutler, Thomas J. and John Edwardson. The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Newport Beach, CA: Books on Tape, 1994.

AVFL-132 (Videorecording)
Markham, Mark, et al. The Battle for Leyte Gulf. Seattle WA: Unapix Entertainment, 1994.

AVFL-58 (Videorecording)
Victory at Sea. Los Angeles, CA: Embassy Home Entertainment, 1986. (See volume 5)

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