To: harpygoddess
For a fine book on the Battle of Leyte Gulf, particular the gallant defense of Taffy 3 off Samar, read b>Last Stand of the Tin-Can Sailors, describing the heroic actions of a half-dozen destroyers and destroyer/escorts attacking the overwhelming mass of the Japanese Navy.
6 posted on
10/25/2016 6:00:35 AM PDT by
BlueLancer
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
To: BlueLancer
Make that "Last Stand of the Tin-Can Sailors"
7 posted on
10/25/2016 6:01:45 AM PDT by
BlueLancer
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
To: BlueLancer
My father was on a battleship at Leyte, then on to Okinawa.
One of the very few things he said about emotions was the resignation and gloom of everyone aboard ship, expecting to become casualties in the upcoming invasion of mainland Japan.
The atomic bombs were a blessing to everyone, including the Japanese.
10 posted on
10/25/2016 6:09:23 AM PDT by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
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