To this day I’m amazed that Hollywood (even in its better days of war movies) has never given Leyte Gulf any consideration.
What is truly shameful is the way in which the crews of the sunken warships of TAFFY 3 were abandoned for days to drown, die of exposure, and be eaten by sharks with few acknowledgements of their ordeals. read the accounts by Samuel Eliot Morisson in the U.S. Navy histories Volume XII Leyte; and see the following television documentary in today’s FreeRepublic post:
WW2: Destroyer Escort USS Samuel B. Roberts DE-413
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