I first learned about Leyte Gulf around 1979 when I first read Herman Wouk's fictionalized account in "War and Remembrance." He places one of his characters semi-prominently in the battle, but otherwise he accurately describes the action. One aside gives the reader an idea of how Wouk (who served in a minesweeper at the time) regarded the battle:"The vision of Sprague's three destroyers - the Johnston, the Hoel, and the Heermann - charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita's battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don't have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it."
23 posted on 10/24/2014, 5:44:58 PM by Homer_J_Simpson
Damn..... I can’t remember which character..... Pug the old man or Briney the younger son. Briney was on a sub in the Pacific.
Now I’ll have to go watch all the episodes all over again beginning with Winds of War. Ahhhh what a task