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	Battle of Leyte Gulf - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, fought in the seas around the island of Leyte in the Philippines from 23 October to 26 October 1944.
		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.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf (3192 words)

	Japanese battleship Yamato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944.
		In October, she participated in the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Samar, during which she first fired her main guns in anger, and she received two bomb hits from aircraft which did little damage.
		She was attacked in the Inland Sea on March 19, 1945 by carrier aircraft from Task Force 58 as they attacked Kure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_yamato (1600 words)

	Sibuyan Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sibuyan Sea is a small sea in the Philippines that separates the Visayas from the northern Philippine island of Luzon.
		The islands of Romblon lie inside the Sibuyan Sea.
		The battle of the Sibuyan Sea was fought here on October 24, 1944.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sibuyan_Sea (100 words)

	Sanrokan News Magazine Romblon Province, Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"The fierce aerial-naval battle was fought in the surrounding waters of Banton Island.
		The Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7-8 1942) was fought in the waters southwest of Solomon Islands and eastward from New Guinea.
		The battle was one of the "Pacific's six encounters between opposing aircraft carrier force." Result: the serious bomb damage received by the Japanese aircraft carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku eliminated its firepower to the upcoming Midway operation.
	www.sanrokan.com /old/mar04/feature_battle_fabicon.htm (1344 words)

	Battles of the supership Yamato
		She arrived on the 28th but in fact took no part in the subsequent bitter fighting in the confined waters off Guadalcanal, partly because of their confined and poorly charted nature, but also because there was no bombardment ammunition available for her 18in guns, and there was a general shortage of oil.
		The Battle of the Philippine Sea was essentially a carrier aircraft battle.
		In a long running battle, in which Yamato fired her big guns at enemy ships for the only time in her career, one U.S. carrier USS Gambier Bay and three destroyers were sunk.
	www.battleshipyamato.info /battles.html (3539 words)

	Medal of Honor, Kwajalein, Marshalls, Bismarcks, Eniwetok, Atlantic, Battle, Saipan, Phillipine, Sea, Guam, Tinian, ...
		Battle of Sibuyan Sea - On the 24th the same Centre Force (2) was heavily attacked by Third Fleet aircraft as it neared the San Bernadino Strait.
		Battle of Surigao Strait - As the Southern Strike Force (3) tried to pass through from the southwest on the night of the 24th/25th, it was ambushed by Seventh Fleet's Adm Oldendorf with the six old battleships, cruisers and destroyers.
		Battle of Samar - Back to the north, early on the 25th, the threat was still great as the main Centre Strike Force (2) with four surviving battleships and eight cruisers sailed through the San Bernadino Strait to attack the escort carriers and accompanying destroyers of Seventh Fleet.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2USMoH1944.htm (9076 words)

	silak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I had the courage and guts to write that the "Battle of Sibuyan Sea" was the greatest naval battle in world history because I believe that this was the historical, logical and empirical truth.
		Therefore, the Battle of Sibuyan Sea was the greatest battle of the four battles of the Battle for Leyte Gulf.
		The Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Villa taken as an individual battle cannot compare with the battle of Sibuyan Sea.
	www.yagting.com /silak/silak_book_review.asp (1810 words)

	The Battle of Badung Strait by Vincent O'Hara
		The Battle of Badung Strait by Vincent O'Hara
		The Battle of Sibuyan Sea (24 October 1944) occurred approximately 330 miles distant and the Battle off Cape Engaño (25 October 1944) was fought about 700 sea miles to the north.
		The Battle of Ormoc Bay began auspiciously for the U.S. on 11 November 1944.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/Battles/new_look_leyte.htm (3275 words)

	Immagini
		In a long running battle, in which Yamato fired her big guns at enemy ships for the only time in her career, one U.S. carrier and three destroyers were sunk.
		Japanese battleship Yamato is hit by a bomb near her forward 460mm gun turret, during attacks by U.S. carrier planes as she transited the Sibuyan Sea.
		While exiting the Inland Sea, the ships were twice sighted by U.S. submarines, and were again seen by a carrier search plane in the morning of the 7th.
	digilander.libero.it /pentiumII/immagini/immagini.htm (1758 words)

	"Musashi" Photo Gallery
		Her next, and last, major operation was the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in which the Japanese surface navy made a final major effort to repulse the U.S. drive into the Western Pacific.
		On 24 October 1944, while en route to the prospective battle area off the Leyte landing beaches, Musashi and her consorts were attacked by hundreds of U.S. Navy carrier aircraft.
		In this Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, she was hit by some nineteen torpedoes and seventeen bombs.
	www.warship.get.net.pl /Japonia/Battleships/1941_Yamato_class/_Musashi_photos.html (1063 words)

	Glorious Death: The Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 23rd -- 25th, 1944 by Tim Lanzendörfer
		The four-day battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 marked the eclipse of Imperial Japanese naval power, the last sortie in force of the Imperial Navy, and the largest naval battle ever fought on the face of the earth.
		After the Philippine Sea debacle in June, Admiral Toyoda Soemu, Combined Fleet chief, at Tokyo had distributed the SHO (Victory) plans — Sho-1, for a major sea action in the Philippines, Sho-2 for a similar operation at Formosa, and Sho-3 for the Ryukyu chain.
		And though the battle of Leyte Gulf ended on a sour note for the U.S., the fact remained that on the evening of October 26th, 1944, there remained no Navy on any of the planet’s seven seas that would be capable of challenging Allied naval dominance.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/Battles/leyte_gulf.htm (6554 words)

	Informat.io on Battle Of Leyte Gulf
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf was one of the largest naval battles in history.
		The battle of Leyte Gulf secured the beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army on Leyte against attack from the sea.
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf destroyed Japanese naval power and opened the way for the advance to the Ryukyu Islands in 1945.
	www.informat.io /?title=battle-of-leyte-gulf (3279 words)

	war and social upheaval: World War II Pacific naval campaigns -- Leyte Gulf
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle in history.
		The battle evolved in four separate actions thayt both side found difficult to coordinate in the furious battles that ensyed.
		It was the largest sea battle ever fought and resulted in the destruction of the Japanese fleet as an effective fighting force.
	histclo.com /essay/war/ww2/sea/pac/ncp-leyte.html (2595 words)

	New Look at the Greatest Naval Battle in History Sea Classics - Find Articles
		The Battle of Sibuyan Sea (24 October 1944) occurred approximately 330 miles distant and the Battle off Cape Engafio (25 October 1944) was fought about 700 sea miles to the north.
		Now let's take a closer look at the term "The Battle for Leyte Gulf." While the four battles presently comprising it sounded the death knell of the Japanese fleet, the immediate objective (as the name clearly indicates) was to bring the Leyte Gulf area securely under Allied control.
		On the other hand, the four battles of 24 and 25 October 1944 were great theater: A historian's dream, their cast of characters was charismatic admirals and fleets of carriers, cruisers and battleships - some of which had been resurrected from the silt of Pearl Harbor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4442/is_200408/ai_n16062728 (979 words)

	The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		As the Nishimura’s force transitioned from the Sulu Sea to the Mindanao Sea on the way to Surigao Strait, they came under attack from squadrons of PT boats hidden among the Philippine Islands.
		Although none of the torpedoes launched by the heroic little boats found their mark, the PT boats reported Nishimura’s progress through the Mindanao Sea as they headed straight for the trap that the Americans had laid.
		And so the destroyers moved away, and this final phase of the battle was fought using tactics centuries old, with Olendorf "capping the T" of Nishimura.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/Leyte3.htm (1234 words)

	The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Kurita at that time was sailing east through the Sibuyan Sea, planning to pass through San Bernardino Strait to join in an attack at dawn on the 25
		Although the Japanese were worked hard to scrape together every possible resource for this operation, Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey actually had the luxury of being able to dispatch one of his four task groups (TG38.1) to Ulithi to refuel and rearm.
		The US Third Fleet launches concentrated air attacks against the heavy surface units of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/History/Leyte2.htm (975 words)

	THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Between October 23 and 26, 1944, the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Combined Fleet fought a crucial series of sea battles, collectively known as The Battle of Leyte Gulf, for control of the Philippine Islands (which were being invaded by the U.S. Army).
		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.
	www.space.edu /libraryresearch/battles/rey.htm (3450 words)

	Heroic Effort Paved Way for Victory in the Battle Off Samar Sea Power - Find Articles
		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.
		On the previous day, in the battle of the Sibuyan Sea, American Third Fleet aircraft ripped into the advancing battleships and cruisers of Vice Adm. Takeo Kurita's First Striking Force, claiming the super-battleship Musashi.
		After battling with several cruisers, USS Samuel B. Roberts was sunk.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3738/is_200411/ai_n9462523 (836 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Three Japanese carriers were sunk in the battle, and the IJN lost nearly 500 carrier- and land-based aircraft in two days.
		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.
		Early on the morning of October 24th, the Japanese Center Force was spotted entering the narrow Sibuyan Sea by planes from the USS Intrepid.
	home.u-s-history.com /pages/h1757.html (1964 words)

	War In The Pacific continued.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		We could faintly see the flash of heavy Naval guns and ships burning over the horizon in the darkness at sea south of us in the Suriago Straits and early in the morning when they engaged Taffy III off Samar in Leyte Gulf.
		What resulted was a string of four Naval battles that history lumps together as the "Battle of Leyte Gulf".
		The waves were 70 ft. I was so tired that when they told us to take cover inside the ship I went down to my bunk, fully clothed with life jacket and belly down, and I got a grip on both rails of my bunk, fell asleep and slept through the whole thing.
	www.friederich.net /war2.html (1338 words)

	Leyte Naval Battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The waters around the Phillipines would be the site of the largest naval battle of the war, as the Japanese desperately strove to turn back the American invasion of Leyte.
		Their operational plan was, as usual, very complicated, involving the movement of forces scattered in bases both in Japan and Borneo.
		In this way the Japanese hoped to bring into play the one largely undamaged asset still at their disposal; the formidable guns of the Navy's battleships.
	www.combinedfleet.com /leyte.htm (216 words)

	Engagements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The battle was over and nothing was gained for the IJN and the defense of the Philippine archipelago.
		Here is where the mistake is made: during the battle, Halsey had received information that the seventh fleet was under attack, and needed help.
		While Halsey and his ships pursued the IJN carriers, fleeing north, the San Bernardino Strait was left completely free for anyone and his fleet to pass through.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~jmarsh/new_page_3.htm (1040 words)

	World War II Battles Of The Pacific
		Battle of the Komandorski Islands, 26 March 1943
		Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 3-4 March 1943
		Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944
	www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWII_Pacific/index_OOB_WWII_Pacific.htm (172 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.
		Desperate to disrupt the American amphibious assault on the Philippine island of Leyte, the Japanese executed a complex plan to force many of their remaining surface warships into Leyte Gulf.
		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)

	LemaireSoft's Battle of Cape Engano (Leyte). October 25, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Thinking that Kurita was out after the battle of the Sibuyan Sea, Halsey went north to destroy Ozawa's fleet.
		He almost succeeded in that, but he opened the way of Leyte to Kurita, who attempted the dash which would lead to Samar.
		Before leaving, he detached a group of cruisers to finish the Japanese cripples in a gun battle.
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/bat/903.html (310 words)

	Sanrokan News Magazine Romblon Province, Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A new book on the historic battle at Sibuyan Sea (The Greatest Naval Battle in World History and Other Wartime Events) was recently launched.
		Authored by US-based Nestor F. Famatigan, the book is an account of the Battle of Sibuyan Sea within Banton's vicinity as experienced by the author and other Bantoanon and Romblomanon folks.
		It covers other war stories like the saga of the battleship, Musashi; the battle for Leyte Gulf and its significance, Kamikaze and the fate of the Japanese soldiers who landed in Banton.
	www.sanrokan.com /old/sep03/news_sibuyanbook.htm (152 words)

	Pacific, British, Fleet, Kula, Gulf, Empress, Augusta, Bay, Vella Lavella, Leyte, Sibuyan, Sea, Samar, Engano, Cape, ...
		In the few months she was out there, there were not one carrier battle to follow on the 1942 Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz.
		There was little opposition to start, but by the time they had taken the northern five-sixths of the island on the 13th, bitter fighting was raging in the south, continuing through April, May and into June.
		sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsPacific2.htm (5771 words)

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