The approach to the Philippines

The approach to the Philippines /

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Main Author: Smith, Robert Ross
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco] : Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014
Series:United States Army in World War II. War in the Pacific.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Palau.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • DEDICATION
  • TABLES
  • CHARTS
  • MAPS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FOREWORD
  • THE AUTHOR
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER I
  • THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND
  • Determining the Strategy of the Approach
  • General MacArthur's Concepts
  • The Joint Chiefs' Strategic Plans
  • Acceleration of Pacific Operations in Early 1944
  • The Marshalls, Truk, and the Admiralties
  • Washington Planning Conferences, February-March
  • The New Directive for 1944
  • CHAPTER II
  • PLANNING AND PREPARATION FOR THE HOLLANDIA
  • AITAPE OPERATION
  • Theater Organization
  • The Hollandia Area
  • The Terrain
  • Japanese Developments at Hollandia
  • The Decision to Take Aitape
  • Obtaining Carrier-Based Air Support
  • Land-Based Air Support
  • The Aitape Area
  • Additional Air Support Problems
  • The Forces and Their Missions
  • The Air Plan and Organization
  • Naval Plans
  • The Ground Forces
  • Logistics
  • The Logistic Plan
  • Obtaining the Shipping
  • Loading and Unloading Problems
  • Problems of Subordinate Commands
  • The Hollandia Tactical Plan
  • Humboldt Bay
  • Tanahmerah Bay
  • Preliminary Operations and the Approach
  • Intelligence Operations
  • Air Operations
  • Attack Force Preparations
  • CHAPTER III
  • THE HOLLANDIA OPERATIONS
  • The Landings at Tanahmerah Bay
  • The Assault
  • The Landing Plans Are Changed
  • The 24th Division's Drive to the Airfields
  • The First Day of the Advance
  • Logistic Problems Delay the Advance
  • Supply Difficulties, 24-25 April
  • The Airfields Are Secured
  • The Seizure of Hollandia Town
  • The Beachhead at Humboldt Bay
  • Hollandia Falls
  • The Drive Inland from Humboldt Bay
  • The Landing of the 186th Infantry
  • To the Shore of Lake Sentani
  • Amphibious Movement on Lake Sentani
  • Mopping-Up Operations
  • Logistic Problems of the RECKLESS Task Force
  • The Fire
  • Supplying Forces Inland
  • The End of the Operation.
  • CHAPTER IV
  • THE JAPANESE: PEARL HARBOR THROUGH HOLLANDIA
  • Strategy and Dispositions to April 1944
  • The Japanese Situation to Mid-1943
  • Japanese Strategic Withdrawals to April 1944
  • Japan's Pacific Order of Battle, April 1944
  • The Japanese at Hollandia
  • Japanese Planning and Command at Hollandia
  • Japanese Reactions to Hollandia
  • Japanese Withdrawal from Hollandia
  • CHAPTER V
  • PRELUDE TO THE BATTLE OF THE DRINIUMOR
  • Securing the Airfield Area
  • The Tactical Plan
  • The Capture of the Airfields
  • Airfield Construction and Supporting Arms
  • Securing the Flanks
  • The Enemy Situation to 4 May
  • Contact with the 18th Army on the East Flank
  • Reorganization of the PERSECUTION Task Force
  • East Sector Troops Meet the Enemy
  • Withdrawal from Yakamul
  • Operations Along the Driniumor
  • Support of East Sector Operations
  • CHAPTER VI
  • DEPLOYMENT FOR BATTLE
  • Reinforcement and Reorganization of the PERSECUTION Task Force
  • The Decision to Reinforce Aitape
  • Reorganizations and Redispositions
  • Gathering Combat Intelligence
  • Reconnaissance in Force Eastward
  • Redispositions Along the Driniumor
  • Intelligence, 10 July
  • The 18th Army Moves West
  • The 18th Army's Plan
  • Deployment for the Attack
  • CHAPTER VII
  • THE BATTLE OF THE DRINIUMOR PHASE I: THE 18TH ARMY ATTACKS
  • Withdrawal of the PERSECUTION Covering Force
  • Action During the Night of 10-11 July
  • The Decision to Withdraw
  • Withdrawal to the Second Delaying Position
  • Restoration of the Driniumor Line
  • Preparations for Counterattack
  • Action in the Coastal Sector
  • The Attack South from the Paup Villages
  • South Force and the Gap
  • Operations West of the Driniumor
  • The Japanese Attack on the South Flank
  • Japanese Attack Preparations
  • The Japanese Retake Afua
  • Changes in PERSECUTION Task Force Plans.
  • CHAPTER VIII
  • THE BATTLE OF THE DRINIUMOR PHASE II: THE 18TH ARMY RETREATS
  • Securing the Afua Area
  • The Relief of Troop C
  • Afua and the Triangle
  • Allied and Japanese Plans
  • The Japanese Retreat from Afua
  • Envelopment to the East
  • South Along Niumen Creek
  • TED Force and the Withdrawing 18th Army
  • Results of TED Force Operations
  • The End of the Aitape Operation
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER IX
  • THE SEIZURE OF WAKDE ISLAND
  • The Sarmi-Biak Plan
  • The Strategic Background
  • The First Wakde-Sarmi-Biak Plan.
  • The Plan is Changed
  • The Wakde Plan
  • The Amphibious Plan
  • The Air Support Plan
  • Supply and Reinforcement
  • Airfield Construction Problems
  • Preparations for the Capture of Wakde Island
  • Small-Island Warfare, Southwest Pacific Style
  • The Target-Terrain and Defenses
  • The First Day
  • A New Air Base on the Road to the Philippines
  • CHAPTER X
  • LONE TREE HILL: THE INITIAL ATTACKS
  • The Japanese at Wakde-Sarmi
  • Japanese Plans for Western New Guinea, April-May 1944
  • Dispositions of the Yuki Group
  • Reactions to the Allied Landings
  • The 158th Infantry Against Lone Tree Hill
  • Preliminaries to a Mainland Campaign
  • West to the Tirfoam River
  • Discovering the Japanese Defenses
  • The Defile
  • The 158th Infantry Withdraws
  • Final Operations of the 158th Infantry
  • Redispositions of the TORNADO Task Force
  • Japanese Attacks East of the Tor
  • The Japanese Withdraw
  • The Relief of the 158th Infantry
  • CHAPTER XI
  • LONE TREE HILL AND BEYOND
  • The 6th Division Against Lone Tree Hill
  • The Objective
  • To the Top of Lone Tree Hill
  • Holding Lone Tree Hill
  • Final Operations in the Wakde-Sarmi Area
  • Mopping Up by the 6th Division
  • The End of the Operation
  • Epilogue
  • The Results of the Wakde-Sarmi Operation
  • CHAPTER XII
  • BIAK: THE PLAN, THE LANDING, AND THE ENEMY
  • The Biak Plan
  • The Objective.
  • Organization, Logistics, and Intelligence
  • The Landing Plan
  • The Landing
  • Preparations and Approach
  • The Assault
  • The 162d Infantry on Z Day
  • Supporting Arms and Services, Z Day
  • The Japanese on Biak
  • Japanese Defenses on Biak
  • Dispositions of the Biak Detachment
  • Reactions to the Allied Landings
  • CHAPTER XIII
  • WEST TO MOKMER DROME
  • An Initial Reverse
  • Prelude to Retreat
  • The First Attack Ends in Retreat
  • Preparations for a New Attack
  • Reinforcement of the HURRICANE Task Force
  • Plans for a New Attack
  • The Seizure of Mokmer Drome
  • Action at the Surveyed Strip
  • West Toward the Airdromes
  • To the Beach
  • CHAPTER XIV
  • FRUSTRATION AT MOKMER DROME
  • Reinforcements for the 186th Infantry
  • Japanese Reactions to the Westward Advance
  • The Decision to Reinforce the 186th Infantry
  • The 162d Infantry Moves to Mokmer Drome
  • Operations North of Mokmer Drome
  • The Plan of Attack
  • Meeting Resistance on the Low Ridge
  • To the Rim of the West Caves
  • Allied Command at Biak
  • Air and Naval Base Development to Mid-June
  • Changes in Command
  • CHAPTER XV
  • THE JAPANESE REINFORCE BIAK
  • Biak and Japanese Naval Plans
  • Japanese Naval Planning, Early 1944
  • The Japanese Decision to Reinforce Biak
  • The KON Operation
  • The First KON Operation
  • The Second KON Operation
  • The Third KON Operation
  • Reinforcements by Barge During KON
  • Results of the KON Operation
  • Facts and Speculation
  • Effects of KON at Biak
  • CHAPTER XVI
  • BIAK: THE REDUCTION OF THE JAPANESE POCKETS
  • The Reduction of the West Caves
  • The Attack Continues
  • Preparations For a New Attack
  • The Fall of the West Caves
  • Securing the Western Area
  • Hill 320 and The Teardrop
  • Mopping Up in the Western Area
  • The Reduction of the East Caves
  • The Reduction of the Ibdi Pocket
  • Operations of the 162d Infantry at the Ibdi Pocket.
  • The 163d Infantry at the Ibdi Pocket
  • The End of the Operation
  • Mopping Up
  • Medical Problems and Casualties
  • Logistics and Base Development
  • CHAPTER XVII
  • OPERATIONS ON NOEMFOOR ISLAND
  • The Noemfoor Plan
  • The Terrain and the Enemy
  • Organization of the Forces
  • Logistics and Tactics
  • The Landing
  • Approach and Bombardment
  • The Assault
  • Ordering the 503d Parachute Infantry Forward
  • The 503d Parachute Infantry Drops at Noemfoor
  • The Occupation of Noemfoor Island
  • Hill 201
  • Mopping Up
  • Base Development on Noemfoor
  • Civil Affairs and Atrocities
  • Construction and Unloading
  • CHAPTER XVIII
  • AIRFIELDS ON THE VOGELKOP PENINSULA
  • Early Plans for the Vogelkop
  • Oil
  • Cancellation of the Sorong-Waigeo Plan
  • The Sansapor-Mar Plan
  • Plans and Planning
  • Staging and Rehearsing Problems
  • Engineer Problems
  • Operations in the Sansapor-Mar Area
  • The Landing
  • Post D Day Operations at Sansapor-Mar
  • Medical Problems
  • Airfield Construction
  • CHAPTER XIX
  • THE PALAUS AND MOROTAI: STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING
  • The Strategic Setting
  • General MacArthur's Planning
  • Central Pacific Plans
  • Strategic Air Support
  • The Objectives
  • The Terrain
  • The Japanese
  • Organization, Tactics, and Logistics
  • The Organization and Missions of the Forces
  • The Palau Tactical Plan
  • Logistics of the Palau Operation
  • The Tactical and Logistic Plan for Morotai
  • CHAPTER XX
  • THE MOROTAI OPERATION
  • The Landing
  • Final Preparations and the Approach
  • Air Support and Naval Bombardment
  • The Landing Beaches
  • Securing and Developing Morotai
  • Expanding the Hold
  • Supporting Arms and Services
  • Airfield Construction
  • CHAPTER XXI
  • THE LANDING ON PELELIU AND ANGAUR
  • Preliminary Air and Naval Bombardment
  • The Peleliu Beachhead
  • The Decision to Land on Angaur
  • The Assault on Angaur
  • The Landing.

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