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Failed to maintain regular air recon during Leyte

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Failed to maintain regular air recon during Leyte

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Inadequate op logistics- oil shortage and pilot training and aircraft replacement

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Inadequate op logistics- oil shortage and pilot training and aircraft replacement

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Led to Japanese Combined Fleet dividing its forces in plan to defend Phillipines- OCT 44.

Low fuel inventories in Japan (home waters)
Based heavy ships at Lingga Anchorage (90 miles southeast of Singapore)- close to abundant source of oil.

Kept carrier forces in the Inland Sea- train pilots and get replacement aircraft

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Use Filipino cooperation to build and protect airfields

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Use Filipino cooperation to build and protect airfields

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Resulted in sabotage and active hostility against Japanese airfields

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Army and Navy developed and issues orders separetly and competed against each other rather than cooperated.

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14th Army unclear about where US would attack

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14th Army unclear about where US would attack

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Should they defend the beaches or defend in depth throughout the PIs.

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Interdict Allied shipping, attack transports.

Moved to central PI to support these tasks.

Deny, disrupt, or delay US landings?

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Planned Air Defense starting in May 1944

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Planned Air Defense starting in May 1944

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Key to PI defense= airpower.

31 and 32 Air Groups On Luzon

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Naval forces to prevent US from moving forces to PIs

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Naval forces to prevent US from moving forces to PIs

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3rd Southern Exp Fleet- defend sea approaches

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Combined Fleet= Toyoda
Surface Escort, China Fleet and minor forces= Navy section at IGHQ

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Logistics impeded Japan's ability to meet their objectives in PI (preclude enemy landing forces from securing beachhead in PI by est local sea control through a decisively defeating allied naval forces)

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Logistics impeded Japan's ability to meet their objectives in PI (preclude enemy landing forces from securing beachhead in PI by est local sea control through a decisively defeating allied naval forces)

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Planned diversionary naval attack. Task was to draw 3rd Fleet away from position protecing US landings at Leyte.

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Planned diversionary naval attack. Task was to draw 3rd Fleet away from position protecing US landings at Leyte.

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Lack luster coordination between Army and navy aviation

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Lack luster coordination between Army and navy aviation

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Land based air attacks against Allied Shipping

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Land based air attacks against Allied Shipping

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Conducted air attack against US suplly dumps and american shipping to disrupt ground attack

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Conducted air attack against US suplly dumps and american shipping to disrupt ground attack

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US air attacks againt Japan airfield on other islands severly limited Japan air strength.... by Oct 28 not a major threat to US ops

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Belief that they had one naval battle against US encouraged Japanese Southern Army to fight to destroy US 6th Army.

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Belief that they had one naval battle against US encouraged Japanese Southern Army to fight to destroy US 6th Army.

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Reiforced Leyte with 10,000 tons of materiel and 34,000 troops  through Ormoc on west coast of Leyte

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Reiforced Leyte with 10,000 tons of materiel and 34,000 troops  through Ormoc on west coast of Leyte

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Seized opportunity to attack congested ports with IDF and air

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Seized opportunity to attack congested ports with IDF and air

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Determined US Order of Battle from radio broadcasts from SF

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Determined US Order of Battle from radio broadcasts from SF

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Helped fill intel gap about US forces in PIs

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Loss of Naval forces at Leyte made it difficult (maybe impossible) for Japan to access SRA (couldn't protect routes)

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Loss of Naval forces at Leyte made it difficult (maybe impossible) for Japan to access SRA (couldn't protect routes)

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Loss of Naval and air forces made it difficult for Japan to use operational fires in support of ground fight on Luzon.

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Loss of Naval and air forces made it difficult for Japan to use operational fires in support of ground fight on Luzon.

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FAulty assumption about US intentions for Mindoro

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FAulty assumption about US intentions for Mindoro

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Assumed US would bypass since it wasn't suitable for airfields (from their point of view).

Japan surprised.

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Allied prevented import of rice for Luzon

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Allied prevented import of rice for Luzon

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Large stockpiles of munitions enabled Japanese forces to delay US ground advances during Luzon fight

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Large stockpiles of munitions enabled Japanese forces to delay US ground advances during Luzon fight

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The army and navy sections of the Imperial General HQ shared the same building, and both were responsible for strategy, planning, and operations but plans rarely coordinated.

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A lack of land bases available to for sustament

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A lack of land bases available to for sustament