The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) circa in June 1944, while off Boston, Massachusetts. WikiCommons
Caladan Oceanic An underwater shot of the sunken Sammy B ship Caladan Ocean
Posted on 06/25/2022 1:06:01 PM PDT by srmanuel
Two tough American ships… went up against giant Jap cruisers…
Good bless those sailors… better men from from better days.
Better Leyte than never!
Taffy 3
Bravery and Duty. Protecting the whole convoy. Knew their fate and what they led their crew into as they set off against the Japanese.
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Or. Why there’s no class of ship called Halsey.
(22,621 feet)
Wow
“...but the team were helped by a custom-built sidescan solar system...”
Bless all the nice people at CNN.
Glad to see the discoverer has a deep respect for those fighting men.
Rest in Peace.
As they used to say about the Colonial Navy ... It was wooden ships and iron men ... It could still be that way if they could get rid of those woke leaders and concentrate on fighting instead of using “proper pronouns”..
For better perspective, the depth of the shipwreck is equivalent to 2.853 runs around the Texas Motor Speedway track.
That’s right Taffy 3. Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts against huge Jap light and heavy cruisers…
Americans with giant iron balls…
God bless them
Re woke:
Obama did his work well.
Orange jumpsuit and shackles for that puke…
The gibbet would be more appropriate.
Woof!
I like the shot of the empty torpedo tubes. The Roberts gave them all she had.
I also like that someone is still exploring military shipwrecks. I thought that has stopped with Paul Allen’s death, and the family sidelining the RV Petrel.
Caladan Oceanic An underwater shot of the sunken Sammy B ship Caladan Ocean
Halsey should have been relieved of his command for leaving station to chase down Jap carriers that had no air groups. If he’d even left one Essex carrier those destroyers would not have had make suicide charges. The Japanese withdrew because the thought it was a trap. They didn’t believe there were no carrier groups in the area.
My (late) father was on the destroyer USS Perkins dd377 during the battle of Leyte Gulf.
Absolutely agree. He wanted his own Midway. I would have transferred him to guard the Panama Canal for the duration.
Nimitz disagreed. But what did he know?
He could have left one carrier group to cover the landings. They knew the Japanese carriers had almost no functioning air groups because there hadn’t been enough time since the Marianas Turkey Shoot to train more. Plus the scout planes hadn’t been attacked by covering aircraft. I understand the strategic importance of sinking the remaining Japanese carriers.I also understand Nimitz taking up for him.
BTW, I also agree with Nimtz testifying in defense of Grand Admiral Karl Donitz at his Nuremberg trial. Donitz was not, a war criminal. He had nothing to do with the holocaust. It was the right thing to do. The US submarines did to Japan what the German submarines tried to do to the UK. No difference. That is war, and war is Hell.
I think is a similar situation to Patton slapping shell-shocked soldiers. Patton was reprimanded, and possibly demoted (otherwise he’d have had Bradley’s position at the end of the war) but ultimately, they needed him in command of an army. Halsey was the best naval Flag officer the US had. Maybe the best it has ever had. But he made a huge mistake in this case. If the Japanese commander hadn’t lost his nerve the US would have lost that battle. I believe Halsey was saved by the fact that the US won the battle.
There were a few battleships as well. Surely Yamato counts.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.