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Battle of Leyte Gulf - The Largest Sea Battle of the Second World War (Paperback)
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Battle of Leyte Gulf - The Largest Sea Battle of the Second World War (Paperback)
Series: Images of War
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By early 1944, offensives undertaken by the United States armed
forces had driven the Japanese from many of their conquests in the
south and central Pacific. The next American move was to sever
Tokyo's communications with the remaining Japanese garrisons and
interdict the supplies of raw materials essential to Japan's war
effort. Before this could be achieved it was considered essential
to eliminate the land-based air forces in the Philippines which
were regarded as too powerful to by-pass. The American plan was to
land on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte and, once fully
established there, to move against the island of Mindoro. At this
point, US forces would then launch their main assault upon Luzon
and the Philippine capital, Manila. On 20 October 1944, the US
Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the
US Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assisted by ships from the
Royal Australian Navy. The Japanese were aware that the Americans
were poised to attack the Philippines and planned to draw the
American warships into one last great battle to try and stave off
the otherwise inevitable defeat. Over the course of the following
three days, the two naval forces engaged in four separate
engagements. Involving more than 360 ships and 200,000 naval
personnel, the battle was the greatest naval encounter of the
Second World War and possibly the largest naval battle in history.
The result was disastrous for the Japanese who lost three
battleships, four aircraft carriers, ten cruisers and eleven
destroyers, along with almost 300 aircraft - the greatest loss of
ships and crew the Japanese had ever experienced. In _Battle of
Leyte Gulf_, the actions of the warships as well as the
accompanying amphibious landings on Leyte by the US Sixth Army are
vividly revealed through a dramatic collection of photographs
depicting the ships, sailors, airmen and soldiers who made history.
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