This moving tale uses personal accounts of the veterans who
achieved victory in the biggest and last great naval battle,
largely fought with aging ships, untested reserve crews, and
teenaged combat aircraft pilots. Often overshadowed by other
Pacific War engagements such as Midway or Guadalcanal, the Battle
of Leyte Gulf was characterized by some of the most gallant hours
in seagoing history: the U.S. Navy's defeat of the combined
Japanese fleet during the invasion of the Philippines in October
1944. Involving more ships than even the gargantuan First World War
Battle of Jutland and two hundred thousand men, it was the biggest
naval battle in world history. It marked the last time huge capital
ships fought within sight and sound of each other. Using the
personal accounts of the men who were there, Sears tells this
mammoth and compelling story. The Battle of Leyte Gulf could have
been the Pacific War's Battle of the Bulge. In a space of 12 hours,
Japan, a beaten, cornered enemy, was able to devise and execute a
strategy that very nearly pierced the heart of America's war
machine. The real margin of victory would come from surprising
quarters: from aging ships risen from the graveyard of the war's
infamous first day; from small, hastily constructed ships with
largely untested reserve crews; from fragile support ships never
intended to be anywhere near battles of this scale; and from combat
aircraft piloted by teenagers.
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