C.V. Woodward, who wrote the first full account of the battle, said, “Rarely in all naval history has a power staked so much on one operation as the Japanese did at Leyte Gulf and rarely has any ...

Thomas Cutler ("The Battle of Leyte Gulf at 75"), Trent Hone ("Mastering the Art of Command"), and Paul Stillwell ("Battleship Commander") discussed the 1944 Pacific Theater Battle of Leyte Gulf ...

See photos of the cruiser USS Leyte Gulf's final deployment, which included busting a narco-sub carrying 5,000 pounds of cocaine.

As dawn painted the Pacific red, the heavy cruiser Maya prowled the seas as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s naval dominance. In ...

On Oct. 26, 1944, after four days of furious fighting, the World War II battle of Leyte Gulf, largest air-naval clash in history, ended with a decisive U.S. victory over the Japanese.

A Fresh Look at the Greatest Sea Battle This new look at America’s retaking the Philippines from the Japanese in the fall of 1944 focuses on the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in ...

This was the Battle for Leyte Gulf, which pitted the U.S. fleets supporting General Douglas MacArthur’s landings on the island of Leyte against all the naval might that the crumbling Japanese ...

Guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf returned Friday to Naval Station Norfolk for the last time as the Navy prepares to decommission the warship later this year. The cruiser departed Jan. 28 from ...

In late 1944, during the fierce Battle of Leyte Gulf, USS Princeton was locked in combat, her Hellcats swarming the skies to repel waves of Japanese aircraft threatening the fleet. As the US ...

The 36-years-young cruiser Leyte Gulf completed its final deployment last week and is slated to be decommissioned later this year.

A formation of sailors stand by to assist the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf as it returns to Naval Station Norfolk on May 17, 2024, after its final deployment.