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Great map of the battles

LCDR Centner

Watsonville Sea Breeze front page article announcing at LCDR Centner received a Bronze Star for distinguished service [during the Battle of Leyte Gulf].

St. Lo Survivors after their rescue at sea

Michael McKenna admiring the Navy Cross just received by his father, CAPT Francis J. McKenna, commander of the St. Lo

The Baby Carrier USS St Lo, burning from a crashed Kamikaze. This attack was after she survived the Battle of Samar.

Devasting picture of the baby Carrier USS St Lo exploding after being hit by a Japanese Kamikaze.
Having survived the Battle of Samar, she was hit by an aircraft flying from an airfield close by in the Philippines.

Darter ran aground and had to be destroyed

The mighty Japanese Battleship Yamato, over 72,800 tons at full load.
Damaged in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea. Her sister ship Musashi being sunk.

Admiral William "Bull" Halsey.

Admiral Halsey's Flagship New Jersey, battles a storm
in November 1944, just after The Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Allied forces land at Leyte October 1944.

Chart of Battle of Suriago Strait

Course taken by Kurita's Central Force into the Sibuyan Sea.

The Light Carrier Princeton on fire

Leyte Gulf Track Chart at an important phase

US Escort Carrier Casablanca

Picture of Fletcher Class Destroyer.At the Battle of Suriago Strait,
all but 2 of Oldendorf's Destroyers belonged to this Class.

One of the fast carriers involved at Leyte Gulf. Yorktown in action.

US battleship USS Tennessee, damaged at Pearl Harbour.
But she lived to be repaired, and be part of Rear Admiral Oldendorf's Battleline,
and be on the winning side at the Battle of Suriago Strait. .

USS Essex

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