Chokepoints and Littorals Week continues on CIMSEC! Major General Pat Donahoe, Deputy Commander for Operations, US 8th Army, and Prof. Don Chisholm from the US Naval War College join the program to discuss why the 8th Army is known as "the Amphibious 8th," the campaign through the southern Philippines in World War II, Admiral Daniel Barbey, and the different amphibious cultures that emerged during the war.
Links:
1. Joint Operational Warfare, Theory and Practice by Milan Vego
2. US Navy Operations in World War II, Vol. XIII by Samuel Eliot Morrison
3. History of the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade
4. The US Army Campaigns of World War II - Southern Philippines
5. MacArthur Reports - Operations of the 8th Army in the Southern Philippines