TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
AU  - Willoughby, Charles Andrew, 1892-1972
ED  - Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
TI  - Reports of General MacArthur, prepared by his General Staff / 
AV  - MS RH 30 
PY  - 1966///]
CY  - [Washington : 
PB  - U.S. Army General Staff of G.H.Q.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Pacific area
KW  - military history
KW  - military operations
KW  - Philippine defense campaign
KW  - Philippine guerrilla resistance movement
KW  - Philippine liberation campaign
KW  - Southwest Pacific Area command (SWPA)
KW  - US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)
N1  - Library has: v. 1, v. 2 (part 2); v. 1: Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder); v. 1. The campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific -- v. 1, Supplement. MacArthur in Japan : the Occupation, military phase -- v. 2. Japanese operations in the southwest Pacific area compiled from Japanese Demobilization Bureaux records. (2 v.); v. 2, part 2: Struggle for Leyte -- Prelude to the defense of Luzon -- Battle on Luzon -- The Central and Southern Philippines -- Tokko--"Special-Attack" -- Homeland defense : basic plans and preliminary operations -- Homeland defense : strategic setbacks and final preparations -- Decision to surrender -- The return to peace -- The Japanese emperor and the war
N2  - This series was first published by MacArthur’s headquarters in 1950, but was not made available until after MacArthur’s death in 1964.

Volume I, prepared by MacArthur’s staff under the direction of his chief of intelligence, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, details MacArthur’s military campaigns from the start of the war, including the defense of the Philippines in 1941-1942, the defense of Australia, MacArthur’s leap-frogging strategy in the Southwest Pacific Area and return to the Philippines.

Chapter 1 deals with the period of the Japanese offensive in the Pacific, including a few pages on the defense of the Philippines. Plans for the return to the Philippines, the Leyte, Mindoro, Luzon and Southern Philippines campaigns are detailed in chapters VII-XI. The excerpt in the Hall collection, Chapter X, is devoted solely to the Philippine guerrilla resistance movement, focusing on those units which came under his command (there is no mention of the Huks). With excellent maps in full color.

Understandably uncritical of MacArthur, this work provides much information but must be used in conjunction with other sources. [Note: Volume II, in two parts, is also important in that it presents the Japanese side of the Pacific War, with emphasis on the Southern advance and the Southwest Pacific theater of operations] - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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