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.
39 posted on 12/27/2021 3:31:55 PM PST by kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)