[kiryandil]

Doodle would complain because the US destroyers of Taffy 3 laid smokescreens for their jeep carriers in the face of the column of Japanese battleships and cruisers in the Battle off Samar.

"How come they don't just man up and slug it out toe-to-toe?", she wondered.

[DoodleDawg]

"How come they don't just man up and slug it out toe-to-toe?", she wondered.

I believe the destroyers and the destroyer escorts did just that. Or weren't you aware of that?