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They made history 43 years ago, and now, in their 60s and 70s, they have come together to recall the battle on which both the war and their lives turned.Some 425 men who fought in the largest sea ...
To start the day, Princeton contributed 20 fighter planes to the air battle over Leyte Gulf. The first wave of 40 to 50 Japanese planes was intercepted and their attack broken up with many enemy ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf left the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) almost utterly broken. Three battleships were lost, including the super-battleship HIJMS Musashi.
He stops at the final name on the cup, Leyte, and pauses. "There's the one they got us," he said. It was Nov. 1, 1944, when the destroyer came under a fierce attack from kamikaze fighters at Leyte ...
Yukikaze, the legendary Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, earned her reputation as the “Blessed Ship” by surviving nearly every major Pacific battle, including Midway, Santa Cruz, ...
The engagement that would become the Battle of Leyte Gulf began as Japanese forces advanced upon the island of Leyte. American forces began landing on Leyte on October 20, taking advantage of its ...
It was one of the most dramatic moments of World War II. On Oct. 20, 1944, Gen. Douglas MacArthur waded ashore on the beach at the island of Leyte in the Philippines, declaring: “To the people ...
One of the greatest failures of the Philippine government is the fact that our annual budget for education never caught up with our population growth. Please don’t blame our population explosion ...
Six panelists who have studied the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf participated in a 75th anniversary discussion hosted by the Naval Historical Foundation. Following the panel, retired Admiral ...
Join a compelling presentation on the Battle of Leyte Gulf—the final major fleet operation of World War II and the largest naval battle in history. Spanning over 100,000 square miles and ...
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 ...