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WWII Pictures of Leyte Military Cemetery
Leyte in an island in the Philippines. The battle on Leyte and in the
Leyte Gulf was one of the defining encounters of the war. Many of the US soldiers and
sailors never left Leyte. Freedom is never free...
Photos from the personal scrapbooks of Lt. Colonel O.
Howard Davidsmeyer, Sr. |
Ceremonies to commemorate first flag-raising ceremony at Leyte cemetery.
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Leyte military cemetery under construction. |
Japanese corpse found floating in Leyte Gulf
Related Leyte links:
 | US Army's Leyte
History page for a comprehensive description of the battle and how it fit into the
overall strategy of World War II.
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From the bookshelf — Related reading:
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944 (Bluejacket
Books)
by Thomas J. Cutler
Trade paperback: 368 pages, ISBN: 1557502439, List price
$18.95 |
| The Last Big-Gun Naval Battle:
The Battle of Surigao Strait
by Howard Sauer
The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- four major actions -- was the
greatest sea battle in history. The Surigao Strait action is considered the Navy's
greatest single triumph, a model of timing, coordination and execution. This book provides
a unique, behind-the-guns view; a gripping eye-witness account riding the battle line at
Surigao in the last Crossing of the 'T'.
Hardcover: 224 pages, ISBN 1889901083, List price $24.95 |
| Recommended from Army brochure Pub 72-27:
The official history of the Leyte Campaign has been augmented by many popular and
scholarly accounts:
 | The views of senior American ground commanders on the campaign are presented in Douglas
MacArthur, Reminiscences (1964), and Walter Krueger, From Down Under to Nippon: The Story of Sixth Army in World War II (1953).
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| The strategic debate over objectives in the Western Pacific is explained by Robert Ross
Smith in "Luzon Versus Formosa," Chapter 21 of Kent Roberts Greenfield, ed., Command Decisions (1960).
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| A readable overview of the campaign is Stanley L. Falk, Decision at Leyte (1966). |
| In the 1970s, the declassification of cryptanalytic documentation relating to the
Pacific war allowed fuller treatment of the intelligence background to the Leyte Campaign.
A scholarly example of such is "The Missing Division: Leyte, 1944," Chapter 6 of
Edward J. Drea, MacArthur's ULTRA; Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-1945 (1992).
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