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The Battle of Ormoc Bay was a series of air-sea battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in the Camotes Sea in the Philippines from 9 November-21 December 1944, at Ormoc, part of the Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
The night of December 3, 1944, springs to life in the documentary, replete with its inherent terror, chaos and suspense. Battle scenes feature a recreation of the USS Cooper as it dodges torpedoes, fires off salvos and careens through the moonlit night. The animators extensively researched how the ship sailed, sounded and turned.
Poverty incidence of Ormoc 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 25.50 2009 28.34 2012 25.69 2015 29.36 2018 22.12 2021 25.51 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Ormoc's economic base is a mix of agriculture, aquaculture, industry, tourism, and commercial services. Sugar cane, rice and pineapple are the major agricultural production. The city enjoys economic growth because it supplies a large part of the ...
The eight episode series was created and produced by Four In Hand Entertainment Group for the History Channel led by Executive Producers Gabriel Gornell and David Padrusch. [2] Title graphics, Motion design and graphics were produced by the team at Motive NYC led by creative director Chris Valentino for the History Channel marketing and ...
The battalion left Merema on 4 December 1944, and reached the area on 3 February 1945; it closed on the given objective at Pakokku on 5 February 1945, after C Company, under Major Beytagh, cleared the road. The Japanese shelled the troops from their positions in Kahnla, a village on the southern bank of the Irrawaddy.
"Ironbottom Sound" (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the naval actions ...
U boj, u boj" (Croatian for "To battle, to battle") is a Croatian patriotic song. It was written by Franjo Marković and composed by Ivan Zajc in 1866, who later incorporated it as an aria into his opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski (1876) where it is sung by a male choir .
General Mack surrenders his army at Ulm, 20 October 1805.. Two years later he escaped from Paris in disguise. There were allegations that he broke his parole, a severe allegation that reflected on his honor as a gentleman and an officer (in the opinion of the anonymous author of his biography in the 1911 Eleventh edition of Encyclopædia Britannica this allegation was false).