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Portrait photographs
USS
ST LO (CVE 63)
USS WHITE PLAINS (CVE 66)
USS KALININ BAY (CVE 68)
USS FANSHAW BAY (CVE 70)
USS KITKUN BAY (CVE 71)
USS GAMBIER BAY (CVE 73)
USS HEERMANN (DD 532)
USS HOEL (DD 533)
USS JOHNSTON (DD 557)
USS JOHN C. BUTLER (DE 339)
USS RAYMOND (DE 341)
USS DENNIS (DE 405)
USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (DE 413)
Combat
Action and Kamikaze Strike Photographs
The
Imperial Japanese Navy Centre Force
U.S. escort carrier lays smoke off Samar
The escorts of Task Unit 77.4.3 lay protective smoke
Escort carrier USS GAMBIER BAY (CVE 73) and escorts
make smoke
Carrier Division 25
under fire off Samar - Photo #1
Carrier Division 25 under fire off Samar - Photo #2
Task Unit 77.4.3 under fire
View from CVE of Task Unit 77.4.3 under fire
Escort carrier USS WHITE PLAINS (CVE 66) under fire off
Samar
Battle scene from USS
KITKUN BAY (CVE 71)
Taffy III
flees from the IJN Centre Force off Samar - Photo #1
Taffy III flees from the IJN Centre Force off Samar -
Photo #2
Tragic sight -
carrier USS GAMBIER BAY (CVE 73)
Escort carrier USS GAMBIER BAY (CVE 73) is straddled by
salvoes
U.S. escort carrier
under fire from the IJN Centre Force - Photo #1
USS GAMBIER BAY (CVE 73) singled out
U.S. escort carrier under fire from the IJN Centre
Force - Photo #2
Deck scene
aboard USS KALININ BAY (CVE 68)
USS KALININ BAY (CVE 68) deck damage
Taps aboard USS KALININ BAY (CVE 68)
Zeke “52" crash dive on escort carrier USS WHITE PLAINS
(CVE 66)
Massive explosion
rocks escort carrier USS ST LO (CVE 63)
Escort carrier USS ST LO (CVE 63) burns furiously after
kamikaze strike
Final minutes
of escort carrier USS ST LO (CVE 63)
Aftermath - Escort carrier USS ST LO (CVE 63) - Photo
#1
Escort carrier USS KALININ
BAY (CVE 68) battles kamikaze damage
Aftermath - Escort carrier USS ST LO (CVE 63) - Photo
#2
Final photograph of Escort
carrier USS ST LO (CVE 63) before she sank
Other Photographs
S1C Virgil Cox, USNR
RADM C.A.F. Sprague, USN
VADM Takeo Kurita, IJN
RADM Thomas L. Sprague, USN
Grumman FM-2 Wildcat Fighter
Grumman TBM-1C Torpedo Bomber
USS
HOEL (DD 533) near San Francisco, August 7, 1943
5" 38 caliber gun mount aboard USS KITKUN BAY (CVE 71)
Several Escort Carriers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
USS WHITE PLAINS (CVE 66) gets a push
HIJMS YAMATO, MUSASHI & NAGATO at Brunei, October 1944
"Centre Force" leaves Brunei Bay, Borneo
HIJMS MUSASHI under attack in the Sibuyan Sea
Bow of Japanese heavy cruiser HIJMS KUMANO
HIJMS CHIKUMA at Samar
HIJMS YAMATO and NAGATO at Samar
Japanese battleship HIJMS KONGO
Japanese heavy cruiser HIJMS SUZUYA
Japanese heavy cruiser HIJMS HAGURO
HIJMS CHIKUMA and destroyer NOWAKI at Samar
Japanese heavy cruiser HIJMS HAGURO in 1937
USS RAYMOND (DE 341) somewhere in the Pacific
USS HEERMANN (DD 532) at Eniwetok Atoll in early 1944
USS DENNIS (DE 405) being refitted at San Francisco
Island structure of Escort Carrier USS SAINT LO (CVE
63)
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Memorial by Taffy 3
Maps & Illustrations
Operation Sho-Go
Centre Force at 0500
Centre Force at 0630
Taffy 3 at 0630
Taffy 3 at 0650
Centre Force at 0700
Battle Overview at 0710
Centre Force at 0710
Taffy 3 at 0710
Taffy 3 at 0725
Centre Force at 0730
Battle Overview at 0750
Centre Force Main Body at 0750
Taffy 3 at 0750
Second Screening Action at 0750
Battle Overview at 0800
Centre Force Main Body at 0800
Taffy 3 at 0800
Heavy Cruiser Line at 0800
Battle Overview at 0830
Centre Force Main Body at 0830
Taffy 3 and Heavy Cruisers at 0830
Battle Overview at 0850
Centre Force at 0850
Taffy 3 at 0850 |
