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The Battle Off Samar - Taffy III at Leyte Gulf

Fourth Edition

Pages: 198

Subject to change without notice
	Front Matter & Foreword		14 pages
	13 Individual Ship Portrait Photographs of TU 77.4.3		14 pages
Chapter 1	Operation SHO-GO		2 pages
Chapter 2	The U.S. Pacific Fleet		6 pages
Chapter 3	The Imperial Japanese Combined Fleet		8 pages
Chapter 4	A Glorious Opportunity		8 pages
Time-line, Events, & Author's Comments			2 pages
Wednesday, 25 October 1944 (all entries in time-line order, as the author believes they actually occurred)
Chapter 5	0035 to 0630	San Bernardino Strait	10 pages
Talk Between Ships (TBS) & "Shackle Code"			2 pages
Chapter 6	0630 to 0706	"General Attack"	12 pages
Combat Action Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 7	0707 to 0730	Sanctuary, Counter-Attack, and Defend	8 pages
Combat Action Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 8	0730 to 0800	Small Boys Screening Action	12 pages
Combat Action Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 9	0800 to 0841	Her Fate is Sealed	10 pages
Combat Action Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 10	0842 to 0911	Combustible, Vulnerable, Expendable	10 pages
Combat Action Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 11	0911 to 1030	Recall	10 pages
Kamikaze Strike Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 12	1030 to 1200	Kamikaze & Controversy	8 pages
Kamikaze Strike Photographs			4 pages
Chapter 13	1200 to End	Survivors' Plight	6 pages
Chapter 14	Epilogue		8 pages
FM-2 Wildcat & TBM-1C Avenger Photographs			2 pages
Appendix A	The Ships - Specifications - American and Japanese		12 pages
Appendix B	Presidential Unit Citation		2 pages
	Bibliography		6 pages

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13 Portrait photographs
One per page

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)

28 Combat Action Photographs
One per page

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

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