In October 1944, US forces executed amphibious landings on the Japanese-occupied island of Leyte in the central Philippines. Japanese naval forces, severely out
The author served in the Pacific in 1944 as an air combat intelligence officer on Admiral William F. Halsey's flagship, New Jersey, as three Japanese fleets con
The Battle for Leyte Gulf in October 1944 was the largest naval battle of World War II both in terms of the number of ships involved, and the expanse of area th