(U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command) The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was... Here’s What You Need to Remember: Leyte was “the last great naval battle” of World War II. It broke the back of Japanese sea power, finishing what the ...

And here's a view directly on top of either the Fusō or Yamashiro as it's bombed by US aircraft from above, some of which were launched by the famed aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.

In the Pacific, the Japanese, despite being outmatched and outgunned, launched a daring attack around the Philippines in late ...

Ask any armchair historian to name the largest naval battle in history and a typical response is the “Battle of Leyte Gulf,” fought in October 1944 off the coast of... Here’s What You Need ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf destroyed the Japanese Navy as ... Seventy thousand soldiers of the Japanese 32nd Army died on Okinawa, joined by as many as 100,000 to 150,000 civilians trapped in ...

The islands would provide runways for US aircraft and deny them to Japan. Rather than strike directly at Luzon, Army and Navy planners decided first to capture the Philippine islands of Leyte and ...