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	Leyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its capital is Tacloban City and occupies the northern three-quarters of the island of Leyte.
		Leyte is located west of Samar province, north of Southern Leyte and south of Biliran.
		To the west of Leyte across the Camotes Sea is the province of Cebu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leyte (241 words)

	Southern Leyte
		Its capital is Maasin City[?] and occupies the southern one-fourth of the island of Leyte.
		Leyte is bounded by the province of Leyte to the north, by Surigao Strait[?] to the east, Bohol Sea to the south, and Canigao Channel, across from Bohol, to the west.
		A law was passed forming the province of Southern Leyte in 1959 and the province was inaugurated in 1960.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Southern_Leyte.html (180 words)

	Battle of Leyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leyte, one of the larger islands in the Philippines, with numerous deep-water approaches and sandy beaches offered opportunities for amphibious assaults and fast resupply operations.The interior of the island was dominated by a heavily-forested north-south mountain range, separating two sizable valleys, or coastal plains.
		Leyte's population of over 900,000 people, most of whom engaged in agriculture and fishing, could be expected to assist an American invasion, since many residents already supported the guerrilla struggle against the Japanese in the face of harsh repression.
		Preliminary operations for the Leyte invasion began at dawn on 17 October with minesweeping operations and the movement of the 6th Rangers toward three small islands in Leyte Gulf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Leyte (6058 words)

	Leyte
		The province of Leyte is one of the six provinces of Eastern Visayas Region in Central Philippines.
		Carigara Bay bound it on the north, San Juanico Strait and Leyte Gulf in the east, Visayas Sea and Ormoc Sea in the west, and the province of Southern Leyte in the south.
		Leyte is a showcase of rich history and culture set in an unspoiled environment of natural beauty and rustic elegance.
	darfu8.tripod.com /rp_leyte.htm (1596 words)

	CV-32 USS Leyte- A History
		Leyte joined Wisconsin (BB-64) on a good will cruise down the western seaboard of South America in the fall of 1946 before returning to the Caribbean18 November to resume shakedown operations.
		Leyte returnedto Norfolk 24 August and after 2 weeks of preparation departed 6 Septemberto join TF 77 in the Far East to support United Nations Forces in Korea.
		Leyte departed Quanset Point in January 1959 for the New York Navy Yardwhere she commenced preinactivation overhaul.
	www.multied.com /Navy/CV32Leyte.html (458 words)

	Eastern Visayas, Region VIII, Philippines
		Leyte has a population of 1,572,000 in Tacloban City (the capital), Ormoc City, and forty-four towns.
		It was on Leyte that Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines in 1944, accompanied by President Sergio Osmeña and Gen. Carlos P. Romolo of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands.
		Hill 120 on Leyte, where American soldiers raised the Stars and Stripes less than two hours after their landing, is a memorial to the victors in that war, one of many.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ph-viii.html (574 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Leyte is among the country’s most historic provinces, proud of its rich and significant past.
		Leyte is traversed by many low mountain ranges just like the Samar and Visayan islands.
		km., Leyte is bounded on the north by Carigara Bay, on the east by the San Juanico Strait and Leyte Gulf, on the west by the Visayan Sea and Ormoc Sea, and on the south by Southern Leyte.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=44 (305 words)

	Pulau Leyte - Wikipedia Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas berbahasa Indonesia
		Pulau Leyte adalah sebuah pulau di Filipina bagian timur, dikelompokkan dalam wilayah Visayas.
		Banyak dari wilayah pulau ini merupakan hutan dan pegunungan, namun di Lembah Leyte di sebelah timur laut terdapat kegiatan cocok tanam.
		Leyte paling terkenal sebagai tempat berlangsungnya Pertempuran Teluk Leyte pada masa Perang Dunia II.
	id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulau_Leyte (130 words)

	Regional Profile of Eastern Visayas
		The region's terrain is relatively flat near and along the coast.
		Its mountainous areas are mostly located in the middle portion of Samar and Leyte.
		Leyte's mountainous terrain covers most of the southern and southwestern portion of the island while the northern part is extensively flat.
	darfu8.tripod.com /regionalprofile.htm (145 words)

	Global Nation \| INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		During stormy weather in the olden days, outrigger boats sailing along the strait would have to wait for the wind and the sea to calm down before attempting to pass through the narrow channel to the bay, where the waves were bigger and more dangerous to seacraft.
		He was probably referring to the southern side of the cut that "beheaded" Biliran from Leyte.
		Around July 1944, the Japanese in Leyte were in the thick of preparations for the return of the Americans.
	www.inq7.net /globalnation/sec_phe/2003/oct/08-02.htm (1029 words)

	Leyte
		One of the larger islands of the Philippine archipelago, Leyte extends 110 miles from north to south and ranges between 15 and 50 miles in width.
		This reinforcement, in turn, lengthened the fight on the ground for Leyte and forced the commitment of units, such as the 11th Airborne Division, held in reserve for subsequent operations.
		Of course, an ever present factor was the dedication of the individual Japanese soldier, the tactical skills he displayed in defensive warfare, especially in using the difficult terrain to his own advantage, and the willingness of his commanders to sacrifice his life in actions that had little chance of being decisive.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/leyte/leyte.htm (9348 words)

	The Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf is not just a tale of hundreds of ships and hundreds of thousands of men.
		He rose to the rank of Rear Admiral and became the hero of the Battle of Leyte Gulf when he lead his outgunned and outnumbered force to fight back against the best surface ships the Imperial Japanese Navy had.
		During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Halsey led the largest carrier task force ever created into the Philippine Islands and made some controversial decisions that would invoke many debates long after his death.
	www.battle-of-leyte-gulf.com /blg_synopsis/blg_synopsis.shtml (1099 words)

	Leyte
		Built by the Japanese, this airfield was located to the east of Burouen, and to the west of San Pablo Airfield, to the north of the Marabang River.
		Ormoc was an important port for Japanese resupply during the Leyte campaign, where troops were landed.
		The magnitude of fighting was not that of the more famous action at Leyte Gulf, but the Japanese vigorously resisted, with kamikaze attacks, and local air supremacy.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/philippines_leyte.html (660 words)

	The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		The American invasion was concentrated on Leyte Gulf, in the central Philippines.
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf consisted of two preliminary strikes against the Japanese forces on the way to battle, and three massive engagements once the fleets tangled.
		Together, these five engagements constitute the Battle of Leyte Gulf – the largest naval engagement of all time, and the last time that battleships slugged it out against enemy fleets and against each other.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/Leyte0.htm (1569 words)

	The American Experience \| MacArthur \| Maps \| WWII: The battle for Leyte
		One of the most memorable images of World War II is that of MacArthur wading ashore at Leyte, making good on his pledge to return to and liberate his beloved Philippines.
		But often lost in the story is the epic battle being waged around him, which included the greatest naval engagement in history and a long, difficult land campaign.
		But the Japanese defense plan, code-named "Sho-1," called for a massive commitment at Leyte to cripple the American fleet and destroy the invading force.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/macarthur/maps/leyte01.html (135 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Leyte (CV 32)
		Leyte joined USS Wisconsin (BB-64) on a good will cruise down the western seaboard of South America in the fall of 1946 before returning to the Caribbean 18 November to resume shakedown operations.
		Leyte returned to Norfolk 24 August, and after two weeks of preparation, departed 6 September 1950 to join TF 77 in the Far East to support United Nations Forces in Korea.
		She was redesignated AVT-10 and decommissioned both on 15 May 1959, and was assigned to the Philadelphia group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet with a berth in New York.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv32-leyte/cv32-leyte.html (654 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		It has commercial coconut plantations and extensive forest reserves; lumbering is an important industry.
		In World War II, Leyte was occupied by the Japanese in early 1942.
		That landing was followed by the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval engagement of all time, in which American naval forces destroyed the Japanese fleet.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:leyte (134 words)

	THE BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF - Summary
		This and their overall advantage in numbers of aircraft conferred overwhelming air superiority on the Allied fleet - and this air superiority was to prove the decisive factor in the coming battle.
		This was the first of a succession of pleas for help received by Halsey, which he ignored and continued to ignore for nearly three hours, despite their including an alarming report that the Seventh Fleet battleships were low on ammunition.
		Halsey continued to have Task Force 34 race to the north, while the men of Taffy Three were fighting for their lives and the Leyte invasion itself was being placed in jeopardy.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/LEYTE_GULF_Summary_of_the_Battle_.htm (4173 words)

	Lapulapu in Biliran?
		Later, when a force was about to be sent to Leyte, the refuge of the Mactanese, the people of Cebu begged of Legazpi not to launch the attack until they had warned their relatives trading there to get out.
		These were also among the prominent landowning families in northwest Leyte (i.e., Villaba, Tabango, San Isidro and Calubian towns) at the turn of the century.
		A Lapulapu District in the poblacion of Dagami, Leyte, helped firm up my theory that Dagami, who was executed on orders of Legazpi in 1567, was probably the son of Lapulapu and successor of his "urban abode" in Mactan.
	www.geocities.com /rolborr/lapulapu.html (2420 words)

	Leyte Island
		In the Philippines the principal objective had been Luzon since it was on one of the corners of the so-called strategic triangle.
		Since it was presumed that the Japanese had massed their principal ground, air, and naval strength in Luzon, United States strategists had planned to gain a foothold first in southernmost Mindanao, then move to Leyte, and finally to Luzon after air supremacy had been gained over that area.
		Strategically the plan was brilliant, because it would force the Japanese to split their forces in the Philippines and practically force the Japanese Combined Fleet to come out in the open to meet the threat.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Leyte (465 words)

	Leyte
		TACLOBAN CITYThe National Democratic Front in Eastern Visayas yesterday branded as a massive hoax Thursdays reported discovery in Inopacan, Leyte, of a mass gravesite allegedly containing the remains of communist rebels killed during the communist purge of the 80s.
		The military has exhumed the skeletal remains of at least 100 communist guerrillas and civilians who were executed by the New Peoples Army (NPA) in Leyte in the 1980s on suspicion that they were deep penetration agents of the government.
		The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Tuesday said that it strongly approves the log ban in Southern Leyte that was hit by a landslide last February and claimed the lives of many.
	www.paleorama.com /Lakes-L/Leyte.php (551 words)

	Leyte Gulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This timeline of the Battle of Leyte Gulf is based on the Naval Chronology 1944 of Byrd archive with additions from the book Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy, by Clark G Reynolds, 1968.
		Battle for Leyte Gulf (13-16 October) opens as United States submarines off Palawan Island sight and attack the Center Force of three Japanese naval groups moving on Leyte in a major effort to drive United States forces from the Philippines.
		Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle ever to take place.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/LUTZ/leyte.html (1899 words)

	region 8
		In Leyte island's north and southern portion, one finds a mountainous terrain, while extensively level areas dominate the northern portion and coastal flat areas scattered in the northwest.
		Samar island and the eastern part of Leyte falls under Type II which have no dry season but have a pronounced maximum rainfall from November to January.
		Leyte province is the biggest followed by Western Samar, Eastern Samar and Northern Samar.
	www.da.gov.ph /agribiz/region8.html (866 words)

	LEYTE DANCE THEATER :: 42 Esperas Ave.,Tacloban City, Leyte PHILIPPINES
		LDT with members of the Leyte Association of Northern California during the group's 1997 US Tour.
		The Leyte Dance Theater with the Centennial celebration of Philippine Independence' Grand Marshall Loida Nicolas Lewis and NY Consul Cecil Rebong at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (1998).
		Chu has been sponsoring the Leyte Dance Theater also in all it's US Tours including this year.
	www.leytedance.com /photogallery.htm (140 words)

	Cultists heed experts' warning, to abandon tunnels by mid-year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		LEYTE, Leyte - No "ring of fire" came, but earthquakes and landslides might, and they better leave, government experts warned them.
		The tunnels were found to be situated on the western portion of the Philippine Fault which extends from Northern Luzon to Eastern Mindanao, passing through the Biliran Strait, between Biliran Island and the Calubian Peninsula.
		The fault line traverses the island of Leyte, from Leyte town in the north to the towns of Sogod and St. Bernard in the south.
	www.rickross.com /reference/millennium/millennium77.html (503 words)

	Leyte - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Leyte" at HighBeam.
		Exodus of teachers abroad causes concern; 13 Leyte mentors go to Thailand to teach English.(Provincial News)
		Francis Xavier's sidetrip to Leyte immortalized; Abuyog parish church erects a fountain to mark the event.(Tourism)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l/leyte.asp (243 words)

	Leyte Province >>Tourism >>Getting There
		Leyte is accessible by land, sea, and air.
		A traveler can traverse the Philippines, from up north (Manila) to Leyte, down south to Mindanao, through the Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway.
		The Philippine Airlines (PAL) and Cebu Pacific Air service the Manila-Tacloban City route, with a number of Boeing 737 and MD DC9 aircraft flights daily.
	www.leyte.org.ph /getthere.htm (63 words)

	Rosales backs up Gonzales - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Yesterday I spoke of the great tourist potential of Calubian, Leyte, and the island province of Biliran across the strait, with their coconut-fringed beaches, mountains, emerald seas and fresh fish and seafood, such as the scallops which are prized by Chinese restaurants.
		The town's predicament, in fact, reflects the province's, said Batan, who noted that Leyte's budget is derived 95 percent from the IRA and only 5 percent from revenues.
		This is sad, for Leyte has a vast reserve of geothermal energy in Tongonan, plenty of raw materials and manpower.
	news.inq7.net /opinion/index.php?index=2&story_id=13861&col=78 (1069 words)

	Bulatlat - The Philippines's alternative weekly magazine
		Leyte is located in central Philippines, __ south of Manila.
		Cabuynan, Tanauan, Leyte, and member of CCJP-Metro Tacloban and Bayan Muna, Arniel Dizon, Fe Muriel Obejas of Brgy.
		The activity was supported by the Alang-alang Small Farmers Association (ASFA) and the Bayan Muna chapter in Capirawan, Palo, Leyte.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/5-42/5-42-bullets.htm (1914 words)

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