[Jacquerie]

Great post.

[Pelham]

There's a book length description of this battle that came out about 10 years ago, James Hornfischer's The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

You can't help but be proud of the sailors who with three little destroyers attacked the Japanese main fleet in order to save the American landing landing party on the Philippines.