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The Battle off Samar: The Sacrifice of “Taffy 3”
<<Author Unknown>>
Published: Thu Oct 31 13:34:56 EDT 2019
<<Year Unknown>>
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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 Americans had stymied Vice Admiral Kurita’s intent to destroy U.S. landing forces in the Leyte Gulf. Along with the defeats in the Sibuyan Sea, the Surigao Strait, and off Cape Engaño, the Samar engagement blunted or destroyed much of the Japanese navy’s remaining offensive capabilities and turned its surviving surface forces into a “fleet in being”—a concern for Allied commanders, but never again the threat it had still posed into early 1944.
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Hard to imagine living and dying in these situations.
Hand Salute!
To these valiant warriors.
On both sides, men stepped up to do their duty as they saw it.
Hope we never run out of such men, and now women, or “waste” their efforts.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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