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31 gru 2014 · 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...
The Seventh Fleet’s “Taffy 3” excort carriers fight for their lives off Samar. Sailors on board the White Plains (CVE-66) watch as splashes from a salvo of Japanese shells straddle a burning carrier.
His six escort carriers, screened by three destroyers and four destroyer escorts—officially known as Task Group 77.4.3, but usually referred to by its call sign, “Taffy 3”—had been flying support strikes for the recent landings on the Philippine island of Leyte for the past eight days.
Gambier Bay joins Taffy 3 off Leyte in the Philippines. She was one of eighteen carriers divided into three Taffy units. Her planes launched successful strikes against Japanese airfields, supply lines, and troop concentrations. Only Taffy 3 was left near Samar as the other two units were dispatched elsewhere. Oct. 25, 1944.
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...
