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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 13
The Liberation of the Philippines--Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944-1945
Samuel Eliot Morison
Paper978-0-252-07064-8
$9.95
| Pub Date: | 2002 |
| Pages: | 392 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
| Illustrations: | 43 black & white photographs, 24 line drawings, 4 tables |
The smoke from the Battle for Leyte Gulf had hardly cleared before plans were being made for the liberation of the rest of the Philippine Archipelago. Volume 13 of Morison's masterful history covers the taking of Mindoro as a stepping stone to Luzon, the major landings on the shores of Lingayen Gulf, and the amphibious landings that wrested Borneo from the Japanese, as well as the series of short, swift operations that liberated Palawan, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, and Mindanao.
In this volume, Morison describes the newly prominent role of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, whose frenzied suicidal bombings offered the main resistance to the Allied occupation of Mindoro. Alongside details of military operations, Morison includes a heartstopping account of the typhoon of 18 December 1944, which blew up unexpectedly into a shrieking hellcat of a storm while Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet worked frantically to refuel. He also recounts the work of the "Rice Paddy Navy," a combined corps of American volunteers from the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard that collaborated with thousands of Chinese sailors, fishermen, pirates, and guerrillas and ended up fighting the last naval battle of the war using sailing junks.
"[Volume 13 of] Admiral Morison's chronicle is crammed with incident and is one of the best in his remarkable series."--Chicago Sunday Tribune
"As this multi-volume history approaches its end, admiration increases for the skill with which a very complex story has been presented. Certainly it is the best-written operational history, naval or military, known to this reviewer."--Library Journal
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author or editor of more than fifty books, including Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, The European Discovery of America, and the multivolume Oxford History of the American People. He retired from the navy with the rank of rear admiral.
Subjects:
History, Military / History, Am.: 20th C.
