TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Robert Ross
TI  - Triumph in the Philippines
SN  - (hardbound)
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Washington, D.C. : 
PB  - Center of Military History, U.S. Army
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Philippines
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
KW  - Battle of Manila
KW  - liberation of the Visayas and Mindanao
KW  - Lingayen landing
KW  - Luzon campaign
KW  - Military history – Philippine liberation campaign
KW  - US Army
N2  - First published 1963, several reprints.

This volume is part of the multi-volume official "US Army in World War II" series; tenth in the sub-series "War in the Pacific." (This series is also called the “Green book series” because the original hardbound copies were in green).

This is the official account of US Army operations in the liberation campaign after the Leyte operations. Official in the sense that this was commissioned, funded and published by the US Army, which also checked the drafts of this work. The army also provided full support to the author, a professional military historian working at the Office of the Chief of Military History, in accessing sources and individuals to interview, as well as travel to the Philippines.

This volume deals with the ground campaign to liberate the Philippines – after Leyte – from the Japanese. It covers plans and preparations, the landings at Lingayen and the drive south to Manila; the battle of Manila, the battles to retake Corregidor and Bataan, the north Luzon campaign, the fighting in the Visayas and Mindanao. The campaign is told in much detail, including information from the Japanese side.

Told largely from an institutional perspective, the narrative is quite impersonal, but this work remains the definitive study on US army operations in the liberation of the Philippines. The Luzon campaign sometimes goes down to regimental and even battalion level, but the Visayas Mindanao campaign is covered in much less detail.

Despite the plethora of sources, several key histories were missing or absent, which the author acknowledges. Especially felt was the lack of full guerrilla histories. As a military history, the coverage is of the movement and operations of military units, usually on the regimental level and above. There is thus scarce mention of the human element, very little on the guerrillas, and almost nothing on civilian casualties and suffering. As an Army history, there is also hardly any coverage of air and naval operations. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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