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1 sie 2017 · This U.S. Navy documentary depicts the sea battle at Leyte Gulf during the Allied landings at Mindoro in the Phillipines during World War II. During this battle, a small group of American escort carriers designated Taffy 3 engaged the Japanese fleet's main body, including the super battleship Yamato.
The initiative, aggressiveness, and outright heroism demonstrated by Taffy 3, combined with determined U.S. naval air attacks, limited Japanese situational awareness, and pure dumb luck of the...
17 paź 2024 · Taffy 3 comprised six “escort carriers,” so-called because of their small size and limited armament, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts, nicknamed “tin cans” due to their size and potential expendability.
Composed of only six small escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts, Taffy 3 was intended to provide shore support and anti-submarine patrols, and did not have guns capable of penetrating the Japanese armor.
2 sty 2024 · Cruisers bristling with heavy guns. A wolf pack of deadly destroyers. All aimed like an arrowhead straight towards Leyte Gulf, primed to crush MacArthur's invasion force in one titanic, apocalyptic battle. "Taffy 3" engages the Japanese juggernaut with fierce determinations!
This Taffy 3 as lonely sentinels east of Samar and southeast of San Bernadino Strait, on the route to Leyte Gulf. As enemy ships fled the Battle of Surigao Strait at daybreak on 25 October 1944, the powerful Japanese Center Force slipped through San Bernadino Strait.
8 sie 2019 · The Ships of TG 77.4.3 USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68) arriving at San Diego, California on 25 November 1944 for repair of damage received in the Battle off Samar a month earlier. The ship is painted in...
