Samuel Eliot Morison devoted an entire volume to the battle in his “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II.” Now Evan Thomas is trying his hand, and it’s likely his predecessors would have enthusiastically approved of the result. Field Jr., who was actually there, and won a Bronze Star.
Vann Woodward, the great historian of the American South, and James A. The scale of the battle was immense, involving four separate engagements extending over hundreds of miles, between fleets that included 35 large and small aircraft carriers, 21 battleships, 34 cruisers and hundreds of destroyers, along with submarines and motor torpedo boats and more than 1,700 aircraft.Ī number of talented authors have written about Leyte Gulf, among them C. 23 to 26, 1944, between the American and Japanese Navies in the waters off the Philippines. Thus it is easy to understand the fascination of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last great naval confrontation of the 20th century, fought from Oct. A peculiar characteristic of warfare after 1945 was that while navies became steadily more powerful and more expensive, naval battles - that is, combat between fleets of ships at sea - became almost extinct.
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