The return of US troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944

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The divided command problem between MacArthur and Nimitz haunted the Pacific war and resulted in the stupendous botch at Leyte Gulf.

ARRIVED IN LEYTE at 1000 the next day, and after fueling and provisioning, the crew went to work repairing the wear and tear of the month of intensive operations in the China Sea.

A check of the chart showed Biak as about 1, I 00 miles southeast of Leyte at the mouth of the great gulf that almost severs the island of New Guinea at its western end.

In the middle of the year it advanced to Biak, a small island north of New Guinea, where it was nearly strangled by the thick jungle, and it went ashore on Leyte about five days after the first wave of invasion troops.

But on the day of the big battle, it embarked 2000 troops in destroyer-transports at Cagayan, Mindanao, and landed them next morning at Ormoc on the back of Leyte.

North Fleet had also gained a victory, in a manner of speaking, for Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo had tricked Admiral Halsey into running far to the north to take the bait which the Japanese had dangled before him, leaving the Leyte landings unprotected.

Getting to Leyte from Japan itself, counterattacking Japanese units could steam down the eastern side of the archipetago and head straight in.

When it was surprised, Taffy Three was eighty miles north of the entrance to Leyte Gulf, doing the donkeywork of amphibious warfare.

The 6th Ranger Battalion, activated on 13 January 1941 at Fort Lewis, Washington, was assigned to the Pacific theatre and participated in battles in New Guinea, Leyte, and Luzon.

He could see in a nearby anchor berth the bow of the light cruiser Kalamazoo, which had been hit by a suicide plane at Leyte.

Not since the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 have there been any naval forces of this magnitude in opposition to each other.