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Battle of Leyte Gulf: Death of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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Talyn
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf consisted of many individual battles.
The time-line here in this past post, and well as other past posts.
and the little PT boats were involved..
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The time-line here in this past post, and well as other past posts.
They changed the term "unsinkable" to "sinkable" when the Yamato's sister ship, the Musashi was sunk almost 6 months earlier in the Sibuyan Sea during the Battle of Sibuyan Sea, a part of the overall Battle of Leyte Gulf, Musashi was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft on 24 October 1944.
en.wikipedia.org
Japanese battleship Musashi - Wikipedia
Loss at Sibuyan...
The planes of Task Force 38 hit the Japanese Center Force hard—but not hard enough to take it out of the fight.
www.usni.org
22 October 1944: In the lead-up to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, an F6F Hellcat fighter is raised to the flight deck of the USS Essex as an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber, followed by a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, prepares to take off.
Sound and Fury Over Sibuyan Sea
The planes of Task Force 38 attacking the Japanese Center Force during Leyte managed to sink the mighty battleship Musashi—yet the Center Force lived to fight another day.
22 October 1944: In the lead-up to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, an F6F Hellcat fighter is raised to the flight deck of the USS Essex as an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber, followed by a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, prepares to take off.
and the little PT boats were involved..
Wooden Boats at War: Surigao Strait
When the Imperial Japanese Navy swept into Surigao Strait, PT boats were the first to strike. AT ITS WIDEST, THE 50-MILE-LONG SURIGAO Strait separates the
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Smiledon#57
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The book by James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors is a great read about the battle Taffy 3.
Agreed, great book, well written