Those little tin cans were the bravest of the brave for the US Navy in WWII. There is no way to minimize the brass spheres it took for them to take on a far superior force in what was best described as a suicide mission.
The FACT that their attack was so fierce that it led the Japanese commander to assume he was being attacked by much larger force saved countless lives in what would have been one of our darkest days of WWII.
Amen.
A fifth ship from Taffy 3, the escort carrier USS St. Lo (CVE-63), was sunk in a kamikaze attack immediately following the Japanese withdrawal.