"The Liberation of Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, The Visayas, 1944-1945"

"History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 13"

By Samuel Eliot Morison
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After crushing Japanese naval power in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf, the U.S. moved to liberate the Philippines. Admiral Morison describes a series of amphibious operations and carrier actions supporting those operations and explains the countermeasures taken against the kamikazes, along with Admiral Halsey’s famous Task Force 38 in the South China Sea and the deadly typhoon of 18 December 1944. Additional chapters tell the story of the assaults on Borneo, submarine operations in the southwest Pacific in 1945, and Capt. Milton Miles’s last naval battle of the war with sailing junks.

About the Author

Samuel Morison

Well known in naval circles for his Maritime History of Massachusetts and for his biographies of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea) and John Paul Jones (A Sailor’s Biography), Admiral Morison’s most famous achievement was his multi-volume History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, made possible by President Roosevelt’s commissioning him as a lieutenant commander and giving him carte blanche access to the events as they were happening during the war. Morison was later named the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and ultimately retired as a rear admiral in 1951. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II