[oyez]

I told my wife Sunday if I could be granted a wish to make a movie I would make one about The Battle of Leyte Gulf and The Battle off Samar, where Admiral Clifton's Sprague's Taffy Three Force of three destroyers, four destroyer escort and four escort carriers, limited by their fleet speed of 18 knots, turned back Kurita's main battleship/cruiser fleet.

The destroyers had nothing more than their 5-inch guns and their torpedos. The carrier's air arm was either unarmed or carrying bombs specified for shore bombardment.

Midget ships against the biggest of the big. Little did the Japanese know that they were manned by giants.

[doc1019]

Little did the Japanese know that they were manned by giants.

Amen!

[rfreedom4u]

From what I’ve heard those destroyers fought like battleships and the Japs decided not to continue the fight because of the fight.