Task Force 38 at Leyte Gulf consisted of four Task Groups, with nine CVs and nine CVLs. When Pearl Harbor had been attacked with six carriers, the power of the United States to field eighteen all at once was astonishing. And when the Japanese put about 360 aircraft over Pearl Harbor, we...
20 October 1944: Operation SHO-I-GO ("Victory") – The Battle of Leyte Gulf: CarDiv 4’s HYUGA and ISE depart the Yashima anchorage towards the Philippines with Admiral Ozawa 's Northern "decoy" Mobile Force, Main Body and a Supply Force's oilers TAKANE and JINEI MARUs and kaibokans ...
22 October 1944: Operation "SHO-I-GO"(Victory) - The Battle of Leyte Gulf:At Brunei. Before departure, NAGATO's Mitsubishi F1M2 "Petes" are transferred to YAMATO. Her conning tower, compass bridge, casemate guns, directors and ammunition hoists are protected with hammock "mantles". Her AA...
Ise underway in the Leyte Gulf, 1944 Late career 1944-45 They participated in numerous exercises in the Second Battleships Division, until a last-ditch large-scale operation, at the Battle of Leyte. They were part of Admiral Ozawa’s “bait fleet”, intended to attract the fleet to the nor...
Kurita orders all ships to head north, but at 1020 he reverses course southward and again heads towards Leyte Gulf. 0910: Nine Mitsubishi A6M "Zeke" fighters led by Lt (Cdr posthumously) Seki Yukio of the 201st Naval Air Group's Shikishima-tai kamikaze squadron group fly over Kurita's ...
22 October 1944: Operation SHO-I-GO ("Victory") - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: At 1510, sorties from Brunei as flagship of Vice Admiral Nishimura's Force "C" (Southern Force): BatDiv 2: YAMASHIRO (F), FUSO, CruDiv 7's MOGAMI, DesDiv 4's MICHISHIO, DesDiv 10's YAMAGUMO, ASAGUMO...
Operation "SHO-1-GO" (Victory) - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: At the time of departure a total of 2,417 people are embarked on MUSASHI including her 2,399-strong crew (112 officers, 2,279 men and 8 Navy-hired civilians), six judicial service officers attached to Combined Fleet HQ, one...
22 October 1944:Operation "SHO-I-GO"(Victory) - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: BatDiv 3 sorties from Brunei with Vice Admiral Kurita's First Diversion Attack Force (Center Force) in Force "A"'s Second Section: CruDiv 7's KUMANO, SUZUYA, TONE and CHIKUMA, DesRon 10's light cruiser YAHAGI...
20 October 1944:Operation SHO-I-GO ("Victory") – The Battle of Leyte Gulf: CarDiv 4’s ISE and HYUGA depart the Yashima anchorage towards the Philippines with Admiral Ozawa 's Northern "decoy" Mobile Force, Main Body and a Supply Force: oilers TAKANE and JINEI MARUs and kaibokan CDs...
The moment seemed to have come at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, but the Yamato retreated in the face of heavy resistance, leaving the super battleship away from the rest of the 1944 naval engagement before it was quite obsolete in terms of naval combat. Its last hurrah was in Operation Ten-...