New Book on the Battle of Leyte Gulf
December 20th, 2006 by 
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Loading ...Battle of Leyte Gulf was said to be the largest naval battle in history.
Live Talk: Thomas on a WWII Naval Battle - Newsweek Books - MSNBC.com
During World War II, nearly all sea battles in the Pacific were fought at great distances by carrier-based planes flying many miles from their ships. A bloody exception was the battle of Leyte Gulf, where a dozen Japanese battleships and cruisers engaged a lightly armored convoy of American cruisers and destroyers. In four days of fighting in the seas around the Philippine island of Leyte, Allied forces scored a decisive victory over the Japanese in what was to be the last major naval engagement of the war.
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