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- Taffy 3 sustained heavy losses in the action, losing two escort carriers, two destroyers, a destroyer escort and numerous aircraft. Over 1,000 Americans died, comparable to the combined losses of American men and ships at the Coral Sea and Midway. Three Japanese cruisers were sunk by air attack, and three others were damaged.
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Oct 31, 2019 · USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) and two destroyer escorts making smoke at the start of the battle off Samar, 25 October 1944. Japanese ships are faintly visible on the horizon beyond the smoke screen (80-G-288144). USS Heerman (DD-532) and a destroyer escort lay a smoke screen to protect Taffy 3 from attacking Japanese surface ships at the beginning ...
Steaming about 60 nmi (69 mi; 110 km) east of Samar before dawn on October 25, St. Lo launched a four-plane antisubmarine patrol while the remaining carriers of Taffy 3 prepared for the day's air strikes against the landing beaches.
- October 25, 1944
- US strategic victory
- East of Samar
American aircraft press home attacks against the heavy Japanese warships that suddenly appeared near Taffy 3 off Samar on October 25, 1944. The Japanese cruiser Chokai was hit by American torpedoes and is shown far right sinking during the battle.
On the morning of October 25, 1944, the young Electrician’s Mate from Southern California was standing on the flight deck, looking off in the distance for what had been reported by the St. Lo’s antisubmarine patrol as a Japanese fleet approaching his Task Force, Taffy 3, from a distance of 20 miles. As the morning haze began to burn off ...
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Oct 14, 2021 · Explosion aboard USS St. Lo (CVE-63) after she was hit by a kamikaze off Samar, 25 October 1944 (80-G-270516). Japanese Withdrawal. Taffy 3 might not have survived if Kurita’s ships had not been under air attack during the entire Samar engagement.
If the Japanese were to succeed, they had to get past Taffy 3, steaming off the island of Samar. Yusen faced quite a surprise in the early morning hours of October 25, 1944. The escort carrier USS Gambier Bay is bombarded by heavy shells from Japanese cruisers.
Could little Taffy 3 hold off Admiral Kurita’s gigantic battleships? American forces had returned to the Philippines, and the Japanese Navy was about to make its last, desperate attempt to stave off defeat.
