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	Battle of Leyte Gulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battles of 1943 drove the Imperial Japanese Army from its bases in the Solomon Islands, and in 1944 a series of Allied amphibious landings supported by large carrier forces captured the Marianas Islands.
		In the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea it was attacked by carrier aircraft and Musashi was sunk.
		This was also the last battle in which one force (the Americans, in this case) were able to cross the T of their opponents, enabling the US ships to bring all their firepower to bear on the Japanese ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf (3372 words)

	Samar Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samar is an island in the Visayas, which is in the central Philippines.
		Samar is the easternmost island in the Visayas.
		Samar lies southeast of the Bicol Peninsula on Luzon, the country's largest island; the San Bernardino Strait separates the two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samar_(island) (200 words)

	Talk:Battle of Leyte Gulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I have changed the only text once, but I have followed "the battle" with amusement :-) I actually agree with the person who came up with the idea that Leyte is the second largest naval battle in history, altough his/her claims about the Battle of Aegates Islands are clearly wrong.
		The battle is often considered to be the largest naval battle in history.
		Although these battles were fought to secure Allied control of Leyte Gulf, when they were over, the Japanese controlled only the eastern third of the island of Leyte and they continued to be resupplied through their port of Ormoc on the western end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf (2736 words)

	The Battle of Vella Gulf: August 6-7, 1943, by Vincent P. O'Hara
		Surface battles followed at Kula Gulf and off Kolombangara as the United States Navy flung cruiser/destroyer task forces against the Japanese warships ferrying in troops and supplies.
		From the battle area, burning oil covered the sea while the smell of gas was so strong it burned the eyes.
		As events at Tassafaronga (or Samar) proved, it was possible to have a plan, the superior force, achieve surprise and to still suffer a stinging defeat.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/vella_gulf.htm (2506 words)

	THE BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF - Summary
		This was to mean that he lost control of the battle, and his giving such an order when his force was already engaged in redeployment caused immense confusion within the Japanese formation.
		This was the end of the Battle off Cape Engano, and - apart from some final air strikes on the retreating Japanese forces on 26 October - the end of the Battle for Leyte Gulf.
		When Admiral Ozawa was questioned on the battle after the war he replied 'After this battle the surface forces became strictly auxiliary, so that we relied on land forces, special [Kamikaze] attack, and air power.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/LEYTE_GULF_Summary_of_the_Battle_.htm (4173 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Battle of Leyte Gulf Revisited
		Only one thing: The battle was by definition fought for control of the Gulf, but at the end of it on October 25, 1944 the Allies still did not control the area.
		It was that battle that determined the final fate of the Japanese in the central Philippines.
		Since the purpose of the Battle for/of Leyte Gulf was to secure the Gulf area, any fair-minded assessment has to include the contributions of Army land forces—particularly the 77th Division, destroyer squadrons that raided enemy re-supply bases on the island, and Marine Fighter-Bomber groups that dealt heavy blows to Japanese shipping.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/articles/leytegulfrevisited.aspx (648 words)

	USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55)
		USS LEYTE GULF is one of the 27 TICONDEROGA class cruisers and got its name from that place in the Pacific where two battles between the American fleet and Japanese fleet were fought.
		The battle marked the end of centuries of naval warfare tradition, in that it was the last sea battle between forces employing battleships.
		The battle was showcased by three separate primary engagements, the Battle of Surigao Straits, the Battle of Samar Island, and the Battle of Cape Engano.
	navysite.de /cg/cg55.html (1418 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Historical information and data about the ships and battle are inscribed on the base of the pedestal and the adjoining vertical panels.
		During the commemorated battle, the lightly armed and unarmored Taffy 3 escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts were attacked by an overwhelmingly superior force of Japanese battleships, cruisers and destroyers.
		Four Taffy 3 ships and over 800 men were lost in the action, but their sacrifice prevented a serious disruption of the U.S. amphibious landings at Leyte Gulf and contributed to the overall victory of the U.S. Navy in the last and greatest battle between opposing fleets in World War II..
	www.portofsandiego.org /sandiego_publicart/battleofleytegulfmem.asp (213 words)

	Divide and Conquer - Battle of Leyte Gulf
		The battle of Leyte Gulf developed as the largest naval encounter of the Second World War.
		During the three-day battle for Leyte Gulf, a strategic landing point in the Philippines, the Americans won a decisive victory over the Japanese Imperial Navy - which after that battle, was never to sail as a major fleet again.
		Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa was the leader of a decoy fleet that was steaming from the north.
	home.earthlink.net /~divideandconquer/Battles/leyte_gulf/leyte_gulf.htm (2826 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)

	Naval Institute Resources: The Battle of Leyte Gulf Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written.
		First published in hardcover on the battle’s fiftieth anniversary in 1994 and drawing on materials not previously available, it blends history with human drama to give a real sense of what happened--despite the mammoth scope of the battle.
		Marc A. Mitscher, an early naval aviator and commanding officer of the carrier Hornet during the Doolittle raid on Japan in April 1942 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942, was Commander Task Force 38 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
	www.usni.org /resources/LeyteGulf/LeyteGulf.htm (808 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE BATTLE OFF SAMAR
		Unaware that his ships were finally closing in on their prey—with victory off Samar still possible—the confused Japanese admiral had decided to regroup his fleet before a fuel shortage and the relentless American air attacks put it out of action.
		In an over-all battle where American naval forces far outnumbered the Japanese, Taffy 3 had been overwhelmed by almost 2-to-i odds and immeasurably greater fire power—yet Clifton Sprague and his men had made a fighting retreat and convinced Admiral Kurita that he was engaged with a full-fledged fleet.
		The over-all Battle for Leyte Gulf, spread across a total area twice the size of Texas, was the greatest sea fight in history.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/1/1966_1_20.shtml (6651 words)

	1944: LEYTE GULF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement of World War II, made up of two small and three large separate engagements over four days in October 1944.
		The carriers had no aircraft because the enormous Japanese losses at the Battle of the Philippine Sea and elsewhere could not be replenished, but even without aircraft it was hoped they would be an irresistible lure to the Americans.
		But the main battle was yet to be fought to the south, at Leyte Gulf, and Halsey had to break off the Cape Engaño action to return.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1944leyte.php (1592 words)

	USS Leyte Gulf CG 55
		The USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) changed homeport on July 30, 1997, from Mayport, FL, to Naval Station Norfolk, VA. The guided-missile cruiser came to Norfolk under a realignment plan that allowed Carrier Group Eight's two cruisers to be collocated, to improve maintenance and training efficiencies.
		The Theodore Roosevelt battle group, which arrived in the Mediterranean on April 3, 1999, was originally slated to deploy directly to the Persian Gulf to relieve the USS Enterprise battle group, but was ordered by Secretary of Defense Cohen to remain in the area to suppport Operation Allied Force.
		The battle was showcased by three separate primary engagements: The Battle of Surigao Straits, the Battle off Samar Island, and the Battle of Cape Engano.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cg-55.htm (1222 words)

	Naval Institute Resources: The Battle of Leyte Gulf Collection - Michael Bak, Jr. Oral History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bak: The biggest surprise we had was the battle off Samar at Leyte Gulf when the Japanese fleet was just about 18 miles away without anybody knowing about it.
		The captain would give results later on, when the battle was all over, for the entire crew.
		Bak: I think what happened during a battle, the fellows who manned headsets were probably talking and they were telling the guys down below decks what was happening when there wasn't any command from the officer of the deck or the captain to tell them to do something with the engines or something like that.
	www.usni.org /resources/leytegulf/LeyteGulf_Bak.htm (2678 words)

	Battle For Leyte Gulf: Volume 19 - Victory At Sea
		Leyte Gulf is where the war's largest naval battle took place in late October 1944.
		The Third Fleet boasted nearly a dozen aircraft carriers and six battle wagons, including four raised from the depths of Pearl Harbor: West Virginia, Maryland, California and Tennessee along with two of the newest and fastest in the world: USS New Jersey and the Iowa.
		At midnight of the 25th, the biggest battle occured off the coast of Samar as the Japanese southern forces met the Seventh Fleet head on.
	victoryatseaonline.com /episode19-3.html (438 words)

	The Battle of Leyte Gulf October 23-26, 1944
		The battle would be one of the most intense of the war, and would begin with the main fleet engagement both sides had looked for since the start of the war.
		After Leyte Gulf the largest fleet units would be reserved as suicide attacks for the coming invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
		Decision and Dissent: With Halsey at Leyte Gulf by Carl Solberg
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/leyte.htm (883 words)

	Leyte Gulf
		Don Wiegert of Maplewood was a communications specialist on the crew of the USS Wasatch, the flagship of Admiral Kincaid, the head of the Seventh Fleet in charge of the landing operation at Leyte Gulf.
		The Battle for Leyte Gulf was one of the major Naval battles of World War II, and was one of the largest battles ever fought in the history of sea warfare.
		In the end, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was a huge victory for the U.S. The Japanese fleet headed back to its ports never again to be a factor in the war.
	www.mnlegion.org /paper/html/letye_gulf.html (3559 words)

	Leyte Gulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		Battle for Leyte Gulf (23-26 October) ends as carrier-based and Army aircraft bomb the retiring Japanese ships which have survived the previous days' action.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/LUTZ/leyte.html (1899 words)

	UVa Statistics: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf included four decisive naval actions: that of the Sibuyan Sea on Oct. 24; the Battle of Surigao Strait on Oct. 24 and 25; the Battle off Samar on Oct. 25, and the Battle off Cape Engano on Oct. 25 and 26.
		Furgol is curator of The Navy Museum, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D. He researched and wrote the text for the museum's World War II exhibit, one of the largest World War II exhibits on view in the country.
		Hoyt, Edwin P. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Death Knell of the Japanese Fleet.
	www.stat.virginia.edu /leyte.html (1032 words)

	Amazon.com: The BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF: Books: Thomas J. Cutler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We're shown the Battle of Leyte Gulf as a series of hard tactical choices by admirals on both sides and their terrifying sea combat.
		The chapter on the Battle Samar, "Charge of the Light Brigade," is a terrificly exciting account of Sprague's pitifully small group's collision with Kurita's Main Battle Line.
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf is little known among the American public and the action by these "small Navy" sailors of "Taffy 3" should be memorialzed as a profile of courage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671536702?v=glance (1939 words)

	THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These sea battles consisted of four separate, major fleet actions fought in or near the Philippine archipelago (Sibuyan Sea, Surigao Strait, Samar and Cape Engano), and involved nearly every type of ship and weapon system developed to date by both sides.
		The Southern Forces under Nishimura and Shima were to rendezvous in the Sulu Sea and attack Leyte Gulf from the south (in a coordinated "pincer" maneuver with the Central Force) by way of the Mindanao Sea and Surigao Strait.
		Hence, a sufficient concentration of combat force in Leyte Gulf had to rely upon the precise execution of the SHO-I plan (which involved the continuous coordination of the major fleet components, and the concurrent timing of their attacks).
	www.space.edu /LibraryResearch/battles/rey.htm (3450 words)

	Pacific Naval Battles
		Pacific Naval Battles in World War II The Pacific War was the largest naval conflict in history.
		Every conceivable type of naval activity was represented: carrier aviation battles, surface engagements, bitterly fought night-fights, the largest amphibious landings of the entire war, and the stealthy, brutal battles waged by and against submarines.
		I have compiled information on a number of the more important (and, I think, interesting) battles of the war, including a synopsis, tabular displays of the forces involved, and in some cases ship movement track charts.
	www.combinedfleet.com /map.htm (492 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		By DAVID F. If the battle for Surigao Strait, fought early on the morning of Oct. 25, 1944, ranks as one of the most decisive in American naval history, the engagement off Samar that occurred shortly thereafter rates as one of the most heroic.
		Fanshaw Bay was one of six escort carriers guarded by three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that together formed “Taffy 3,” one of three carrier groups stationed near Leyte Gulf to provide air cover to the landing force and troops ashore.
		As the battle off Samar unfolded, the fourth component of what became known as the battle for Leyte Gulf took place to the north.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/nov_04_34.php (778 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf
		It was the largest naval battle ever fought — ending in the eclipse of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and its last sortie in force.
		Leyte Gulf also was the scene of the first organized use of Kamikaze (suicide) aircraft by the Japanese.
		Three Japanese carriers were sunk in the battle, and the IJN lost nearly 500 carrier- and land-based aircraft in two days.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1757.html (1875 words)

	The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		of October, 1944, to the east of the island of Samar, three elements of the Seventh Fleet had been listening to the radio communications of the Battle of Surigao Straight.
		At the heght of the battle, the Yamato spots the trails of several torpedoes approaching her from the South, and so she turns North and speeds away to allow the torpedoes to pass her on either side.
		By an amazing coincidence, the torpedoes are set to run at exactly the Yamato's top speed, and so she must continue a straight course to the North - for a turn to either side will put her directly in the path of an approaching torpedo.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/Leyte5.htm (2155 words)

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