The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The History and Legacy of World War II’s Largest Naval Battle by Charles River Editors
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Overview: The waters of the Pacific Ocean – stretching deep blue under the tropical sun, or scourged by typhoons – provided World War II’s most far-flung battlefield. Two of the world’s premier mid 20th century maritime powers, the United States of American and the Empire of Japan, grappled for supremacy across that pelagic expanse. In the process, they forcefully sounded the knell of battleships and naval gunnery, ushering in the era of the aircraft carrier and the submarine.
As 1944 passed, the U.S. Navy (USN) steadily drove the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) westward, closer to the Japanese home islands and defeat. Nevertheless, the IJN remained aggressive, hoping to launch a devastating attack on the American fleets to improve their nation’s bargaining position, or perhaps even reverse the fortunes of war. This, of course, ignored a pair of previous catastrophic failures of similar plans, at Midway and the Battle of the Philippine Sea, otherwise known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot” due to the loss of around 480 Japanese aircraft at a cost of 49 US planes.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction istory, Americas, United States, 20th Century, World War II
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