The Navy decommissioned the 37-year-old cruiser Leyte Gulf this month at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, months after the ship concluded its final deployment. The ship's decommissioning comes ...

October 1944 marked one of the bloodiest clashes of the Pacific War. Among the clouds, a young American Hellcat pilot faced overwhelming Japanese defenses. Despite fighting bravely, he disappeared ...

notes, biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1472851757 A Fresh Look at the Greatest Sea Battle This new look at America’s retaking the Philippines from the Japanese in the fall of 1944 focuses on the battle ...

If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the world’s largest and most advanced battleships was discovered this ...

Finally, Part Five, the longest of the five parts, covers the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the fall of 1944. It deals with the organization of the allied and enemy forces and then moves chronologically ...

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