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| Item Call Number |
D 779 .P5 M8 1959 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13997 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 779 .P5 M8 1959
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Morison, Samuel Eliot
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Liberation of the Philippines :
- Remainder of title - Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944-1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Samuel Eliot Morison
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Boston :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Little, Brown and Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1959.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xxx, 338 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps;
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Series Statement/title |
- Title - History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Volume XIII of the series History of United States Naval Operations in World War II [Note: two other volumes have Philippine material: Vol. III, "Rising Sun in the Pacific," which covers the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, including Bataan and Corregidor; and Vol. XII which is on the Battle of Leyte Gulf and operations related to the Leyte landings].
Commissioned by the US Navy, this volume (one of 15) is not an official history in the sense that the writer, a professional and noted historian even before World War II, was not subject to any checking or editing by naval officials, as the US Army histories were. Morison was in many of the key battles to observe, first hand, the action he would be writing about.
This volume covers US Navy operations in the Philippines after the Battle of Leyte (which is covered in Vol. XII): mainly the landings on Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf, Corregidor, Mindanao and the Visayas islands. The volume covers both the operations of the 3rd Fleet under Adm. William F. Halsey (the fast carrier striking force), which provided aerial cover and destroyed Japanese positions on the ground, and the 7th Fleet under Adm. Thomas C. Kincaid, which carried out the actual landing operations. Morison discusses the Kamikaze threat (first experienced at Leyte) particularly in Mindoro and Lingayen, the December 1944 typhoon (which cost Halsey several destroyers and men lost). The Battle of Manila is covered briefly.
The work is readable, with many personal insights regarding the admirals. There is however little mention of US Navy assistance to Filipino guerrillas; the focus is on the larger fleet operations and army-navy cooperation. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-45
- General subdivision - Naval operations
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 3rd Fleet
- Uncontrolled term - 7th Fleet
- Uncontrolled term - carrier operations
- Uncontrolled term - Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - Kamikaze
- Uncontrolled term - Lingayen landing
- Uncontrolled term - Luzon operations
- Uncontrolled term - Mindanao
- Uncontrolled term - Mindoro landing
- Uncontrolled term - naval operations
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine liberation campaign
- Uncontrolled term - Visayas Islands
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