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M. Hamlin Cannon

1909–1978

Best known for writing the official U.S. Army history of the Leyte campaign, this military historian combined careful research with a clear, direct style. His work helped document one of the decisive operations in the Pacific theater of World War II.

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Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

by M. Hamlin Cannon

About the author

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1909, M. Hamlin Cannon was formally Moses Hamlin Cannon. He later married Kathleen O'Connor in 1945 and died in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1978; he was buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver.

Cannon is remembered chiefly for Leyte: The Return to the Philippines, a volume in the U.S. Army's official United States Army in World War II series. That book, published by the Office of the Chief of Military History in 1954, reflects the kind of detailed archival work that made postwar Army histories so valuable to readers and researchers.

Reliable biographical details about Cannon appear to be fairly limited online, but the surviving record suggests a serious historian whose name remains closely tied to one of the major campaign histories of the Pacific war.