Soemu Toyoda's complex plan for the much-depleted Imperial Japanese Navy to strike a blow against the U.S. forces landing on the Philippine island of Leyte came tantalizingly close to achieving at ...

Army and Navy planners decided first to capture the Philippine islands of Leyte and Mindoro to the south. Two airfields were established on Mindoro in late December 1944 from which aircraft would ...

and the islands of Negros, Cebu, Leyte and Marinduque, all densely populated, were also shaken. The six-storied campanile of the ancient Jaro cathedral collapsed and some fissures caused by the ...