The approach to the Philippines /
Operations of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific from April through October 1944 told generally at the level of the regimental combat team₂the infantry regiment with its supporting artillery, engineer, tank, medical, and other units.
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army,
1953.
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| Series: | United States Army in World War II. War in the Pacific.
Philippine law collection. Military and government. |
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Table of Contents:
- The strategic background
- Planning and preparation for the Hollandia-Aitape Operation
- The Hollandia Operation
- The Japanese: Pearl Harbor through Hollandia
- Prelude to the Battle of the Driniumor
- Deployment for battle
- The Battle of the Driniumor, phase I: the 18th Army attacks
- The Battle of Driniumor, phase II: the 18th Army retreats
- The seizure of Wakde Island
- Lone Tree Hill: the initial attacks
- Lone Tree Hill and beyond
- Biak: the plan, the landing, and the enemy
- West to Mokmer Drome
- Frustration at Mokmer Drome
- The Japanese reinforce Biak
- Biak: the reduction of the Japanese pockets
- Operations on Noemfoor Island
- Airfields on the Vogelkop Peninsula
- The Palaus and Morotai: strategic and tactical planning
- The Morotai operation
- The landings on Peleliu and Angaur
- The reduction of Northwestern Angaur
- Securing Peleliu Island
- Peleliu: the last resistance
- Conclusion: the results and the costs.
