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The Battle Off Samar -
Taffy III at Leyte Gulf
4th Edition (2006)
by Robert Jon Cox

'Echoes From Off Samar' by Evan Hollis Crawforth

U.S. Archives Photograph

This section contains statistics and photographs on all
Japanese warships which were attached to the
IJN Centre Force at the time it sortied from
Brunei Bay, Borneo on 22 October 1944.
Their trek was long and the attrition rate was high.

The following Japanese warship classes took part in the Battle Off Samar:

Statistics & Photographs

YAMATO Class battleship

KONGO Class battleship

NAGATO Class battleship

ATAGO Class heavy cruiser

MOGAMI Class heavy cruiser

TONE Class heavy cruiser

NACHI Class heavy cruiser

AGANO Class light cruiser

KAGERO Class destroyer

SHIMAKAZE Class destroyer

YUGUMO Class destroyer


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