RESEARCH PAPER
Operation Leyte – operational fires
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| 1 | Dr. Franjo Tuđman Croatian Defence Academy |
Online publication date: 2018-03-20
Publication date: 2018-03-29
Security and Defence Quarterly 2018;18(1):16–25
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ABSTRACT
Operational fires are one of most important functions in a synergy effect with other
operational functions that contribute to the achievement of targeted operational goals.
The main operational goal of the American takeover of the Philippines was cutting Japan’s
supply lines. This goal had been achieved primarily by effective planning of operational
fires. The Japanese forces were neutralised by air strikes, primarily on air bases and
aviation, sea ports and ships and those places where they could provide support to forces
in the Philippines. This created conditions for landing in the Philippines. By the successful
isolation of the Philippines, the US forces gained an advantage that resulted in landing
their troops in the Philippines, and the victory in the largest naval and air battle at that
time – the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Th e Japanese desperate attempts to use the kamikazes could
not prevent the inevitable, and that was the military defeat of Japan.
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