When the US Fleet Met the Yamato
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The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on October 25, 1944. It was the only major action in the larger battle in which the Americans were largely unprepared. After the previous day's fighting, the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Mobile Striking Force, under the command of Takeo Kurita, had suffered significant damage and appeared to be retreating westward. However, by the next morning, the Japanese force had turned around and resumed its advance toward Leyte Gulf. With Admiral William Halsey Jr. lured into taking his powerful Third Fleet north after a decoy fleet and the Seventh Fleet engaged to the south, the recently-landed 130,000 men of the Sixth Army were left vulnerable to Japanese attack on Leyte.
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You can't talk about this battle without mentioning Captain E.E.Evans. If not for him things would have unfolded very differently...
He had huge balls !!
They became sacrificial lambs, but their bravery under fire caused the imperial navy to reconsider their invincibility. ❤
"Lambs" doesn't really fit the crews of Taffy 3.
Nothing ‘lamb’ like at all. They fought so hard that the Japanese thought they had encountered a much larger force. Also by this point in the war Japanese intelligence was so bad that their center force thought they had already sunk 2-3 Fleet Attack carriers instead of the small escort carriers that they had damaged ( the US had close to 60-70 of these by this point in the war)
It’s hard to believe but when the Yamato finally met the American Navy in a ship to ship engagement the Yamato ran. It definitely wasn’t because of the men who manned her but the leaders who commanded her.
They had a ship they could not afford to lose.
It’s strength was its weakness.
I LOVE your channel. This is a prime example of the saying “ the fog of war” as far as the Japanese are concerned.
My Father Kenneth McLaughlin WT/3 served on USS Gambier Bay he survived the sinking but passed in 1969 whenI was 3 yrs old. The Gambier Bay took fire from Yamato.
My Dad was there on the USS BIRMINGHAM and was severly wounded when the PRINCTON exploded while his ship was helping with the firefighting.
Brave sailors
Very well done HIDDEN HISTORY.😊
The only reason we invaded Philipines was for MacAuthor(sp) to live up to his promise "I shall return". It was because of his ego.
maybe but it was a better option than trying Formosa the terrain of that place would have made Iwo Gima look easy and still would
Idiotic statement-it was a US territory at the time from the Spanish American war. Please research before you you post-you sound and look silly touting your own ego.
Don't forget the tens of thousands of Corregidor defenders, American and Phillipino, who were languishing and dying in the Japanese luxury resorts behind barbed wire.
The purpose of Ozawa's decoy carrier force was to lure the US 3rd Fleet north. Nishimura's force lured 7th Fleet battleships and cruisers south to Surigao Strait. The air strikes at various places may have confused the Japanese, but the key purpose was to reduce the threat to the Leyte landing from land-based air.
What spooked Kurita, aside from still being shaken after nearly getting killed when his flagship Atago was torpedoed and sunk, was the fact that American ships were there period, combined with hearing of the Southern Force being all but destroyed, he assumed the bulk of the American fleet was still nearby and decided it wasn't worth sailing his forces lacking air cover into what he thought was certain suicide.
@@Knight860I've also heard tell that by this time, Kurita may have been so sick and tired of throwing his men's lives away that he no longer had his heart in his job. His turning away from battle at Samar may have been as much a case of "F*** this for a game of soldiers" as it was of confusion and fatigue.
True. Kurita was surprised to encounter a USN carrier force at that area. He didn't know, perhaps until after the war, that the force was escort carriers (though they were half the speed of fleet carriers, at several miles distance ...). Other factors in Kurita's decision were that the torpedo attacks of Taffy 3's DDs and DEs had forced his ships to turn to avoid, disrupting their attacks and formation, and the continual attacks of planes from Taffys 3, 2, and 1. He couldn't see Taffys 2 and 1, but realized he was being attacked by more planes than could come from the carriers he could see. This contributed to his uncertainty as to what he was facing. He could infer from Nishimura's destruction that 7th fleet's surface force had been successfully lured away, but 3rd Fleet's location was probably unknown to him. IIRC, Zuikaku's radio was not working, unknown to Ozawa, frustrating his efforts to be found. It also prevented communication between Ozawa and Kurita. Though Kurita probably did not know for certain, he could have inferred from his general timing that much of the Leyte invasion shipping had already unloaded and departed, meaning what was left was a fraction of what he was supposed to find and destroy. The choices made by both Kurita and Halsey were much more complex than commonly bandied about, with numerous diabolic details.
One can only wonder what would have happened if Halsey had left some of his battleships behind to guard the north. Would have seen if the Iowa class was better than the Yamato. Sad thing is Halsey did not need the battleships for what he was doing. They would have never finished off the carrier fleet from the north. They would have sent in destroyers and cruisers, as they did, to finish off ships.
Part of the reason was Halsey was on the USS New Jersey, one of two Iowa class Battleships in TF 38, if they stayed behind, in TF 34, Halsey would of had to transfer his flag to another ship to go North, which he was unwilling to do because of time constraints. Halsey and Nimitz also didn't know how badly weakened in numbers the Japanese Carriers were and assumed wrongly, that the bulk of Japanese Surface forces would be dedicated to protecting them, similar to American Doctrine at the time and that Kurita's forces had been weakened to the point that they were not a threat.
Halsey nearly caused a military catastrophe with his impetuous actions
@@wallacegrommet9343 Don't get me wrong I agree and Halsey messed big time at the battle and if not for the courage of Taffy 1 & 3, might of gone down in infamy similar to Admiral Kimmel.
The attacks by American planes were meant as nothing more than nuisance attacks to disrupt Japanese operations; none of the aircraft had access to anti-shipping weaponry as they were intended as close air support for ground troops. The High Explosives could only do superficial damage without ever being able to sink those ships. The closest anti-ship weapon they had were depth charges to protect the landing fleet against submarines. They even tried those against the cruisers and battleships by dropping them close in front of these ship hoping to breach the hulls by the concussion of the explosion beneath them.
Battle of the Atlantic must have been bigger it lasted nearly the length of the war
Bull Halsey fell for it. He was in a good defensive position with his carriers and his battle ships.
Halsey went after empty carriers and left the soldiers on land open to attack.
He should have been stripped of his command and sent home.
We got lucky.
MY GUY!
The US should have taken just a few strategic islands on the Philippines. Douglas MacArthur’s decision to attack and clear the entire archipelago including Manila cost about 1 million Philippine civilians lives. By world war 2 it was only necessary to control the sea and air to ‘neutralize’ an island even if the enemy had many troops there. The US army had significant casualties too.
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i thibk in donnie brasco they beat up a japanese guy cause they wouldnt take off shoes and called him mr yamato lol