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The Battle Off Samar -
Taffy III at Leyte Gulf
5th Edition (2010)
by Robert Jon Cox

'Echoes From Off Samar' by Evan Hollis Crawforth

U.S.S. ST LO (CVE-63)

"THE END OF A FIGHTING SHIP" by Richard C. Moore

The first U.S. naval vessel to be sunk by a
kamikaze, the ST LO is abandoned by her crew as
her own ammunition blows her apart. Commissioned
as the U.S.S. MIDWAY, CVE 63 and a member of the
thirteen-ship task unit Taffy III, the ST LO
was one of five ships in the group sunk on the
same day in the Battle of Leyte Gulf off the
island of Samar in the Philippines,
October 25, 1944.

USED BY PERMISSION.

In remembrance;
Lost October 25, 1944

Lost in action, 126 men


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Honor the Missing in Action and Killed in Action of Taffy III We do remember. We won't forget.