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The Battle of Leyte Gulf, generally considered to be the largest naval combat in history, was fought 24–25 October 1944 in the waters of the Philippine Islands by elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet (bringing together the IJN's 2nd Fleet, 3rd Fleet and 5th Fleet) and the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet (bringing together the USN's 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet).
The Battle of Leyte Gulf [5] (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle') 23–26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.
On 20 October 1944, troops of the United States Sixth Army under the direct command of Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, invaded the Philippine island of Leyte. This operation was the beginning of General Douglas MacArthur ' s fulfillment of his promise in March 1942 to the Filipino people that he would liberate them from Japanese rule .
For the Battle of Leyte Gulf, see Leyte Gulf order of battle. ... Leyte Gulf Unit (Capt. E.P. Hylant) 6 tankers: Arethusa, Caribou, Mink, Panda, Porcupine, Bishopdale
Battle of the Philippine Sea order of battle: Task Force 58 (June 1944) Battle of Leyte Gulf order of battle: Task Force 38 (October 1944) Typhoon Cobra, a powerful tropical cyclone that struck Task Force 38, causing heavy damage (December 1944) Battle of Okinawa order of battle: Task Force 58 (April 1945)
The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on October 25, 1944. It was the only major action in the larger battle in which the Americans were largely unprepared.
The Battle of Leyte (Filipino: Labanan sa Leyte; Waray: Gubat ha Leyte; Japanese: レイテの戦い) in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General ...
This brought about the massive sequence of battles called the Battle of Leyte Gulf, fought on 23 October through 26 October. This decisive victory by the U.S. Navy, its Fast Carrier Task Force, its surface fleet , and its submarines effectively destroyed the remainder of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), which had already lost all of its ...
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