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00:02Sea Charlie calling Flare Park, may we taxi up and take off, may we taxi up and take off, over.
00:35Across the restless wilderness of water that is pacific in name only, the United States Navy orders Halsey's 3rd Fleet
00:41and Kincaid's 7th Fleet to the Philippines.
00:44Sailing over the Mindanao Deep and into Lavey Gulf, Allied soldiers and sailors come to answer the prayers of those
00:49who marched their way to death on Bataan two and a half years earlier.
00:53It is October 1944.
01:20The liberation of the Philippines will start with the island of Lavey.
01:23Seize the beaches, establish a base.
01:27Six simple words on which hangs the destiny of the Western Pacific.
01:49132,000 troops, 200,000 tons of material, 750 transports and landing craft.
01:57For the GIs, Lavey Gulf is all out war.
02:01For the Japanese, Lavey Gulf is the most tempting target ever offered.
02:16And the Japanese know it.
02:18They have long been waiting for the Allies to get out on a limb.
02:21They have long had a plan to cut off the limb.
02:25Down from the north, up from the south, in from the west,
02:28the Imperial Japanese Navy converges with three powerful forces to perform the surgery at Lavey Gulf.
02:48The entire remaining naval strength in Japan is mustered for one final supreme battle.
02:54Loss of the Philippines will tear the Japanese empire in two, cutting off the home islands from the oil,
02:59the resources, the wealth of the Indies and Southeast Asia,
03:03fatally crippling Japan's ability to wage war.
03:06The Lavey Landing must be destroyed if Japan is to survive.
03:10The Naval High Command confesses.
03:13We are about to fight a battle that will decide the fate of our empire.
03:17The mission of our naval forces is truly great.
03:36Steady attrition has undermined the once superb Imperial Japanese Navy.
03:41But what the sailors now lack is a planet with courage sired out of desperation.
04:00Identify these ships.
04:03United States battleship, Maryland class.
04:09United States battleship, Oklahoma class.
04:20The American submarines, Darter and Dates, are stationed west of the Philippines.
04:26Three days after the Allied landings at Lavey Gulf, they discover part of the converging Japanese natives.
04:31They attack, sink two cruisers, and send the enemy's course and speed to Halsey and Kincaid.
04:38Darter is lost.
04:39But the Americans are alerted.
04:51Intelligence from the submarines is analyzed and plotted aboard Admiral Halsey's flagship.
04:56The 3rd Fleet prepares its opening move in what is to be the greatest naval battle in all history.
05:02Halsey orders out his search planes.
05:04Orders them to pinpoint the Japanese.
05:07The 3rd 어차Es
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05:10Orders them toury with a gausset will run once a year.
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05:43THE ENEMY PLAN TO SAIL THROUGH THE STRAIGHT AND THEN SET A SOUTHERLY COURSE FOR LAVY GULF.
05:48A SOUTHERLY COURSE FOR SLAUGHTER.
05:58FROM THE FLAGSHIP TO ALL CARRIERS, STRIKE, REPEAT, STRIKE, GOOD LUCK.
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06:49THE JAPANESE NAVY CAN COUNT ON NO HELP FROM ITS PILOTS AND PLANES.
06:52ALL BUT DESTROYED IN EARLIER BATTLES.
06:55SO ANTI-AIRCRAFT MEASURES HAVE BEEN INTENSIFIED IN THE HOPE THE SHIPS BY THEMSELVES CAN BEAT OFF THE AMERICANS.
07:01THE SAILERS PREPARED TO THROW UP A WALL OF FIRE AROUND THEIR TASK.
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07:31Six slashing attacks concentrate on the 63,000-ton battleship Musashi.
07:37Hit after hit is scored.
07:38Twenty-one torpedoes, find their mark.
08:18The giant Musashi becomes the first Japanese battleship sunk entirely by aircraft.
08:24Other ships are damaged.
08:25The Japanese Central Force pauses and turns back.
08:29It has been battered, mauled, wounded.
08:34But it has not been destroyed.
08:51In the meantime, the Japanese Southern Force, in battle array and with all boilers lighted
08:56off, rips into the Mindanao Sea towards Surigao Strait, leading directly to Leyte Gulf from
09:01the Southeast.
09:02Battle ships, cruisers, destroyers lunge through the narrow waters, hoping to force the straight
09:08open and join up with the Central Force in the twin annihilation of the United States Army
09:12Navy.
09:13But the jaws of an American trap are opened.
09:42American men of war, alerted with the Japanese approach, raced to put a stop in the war.
09:46They have a copper in the bottleneck of Surigao Strait.
09:52Admiral Kincaid stops the bottleneck with PT boats, destroyed cruisers and battleships.
09:59American and Australian ships and sailors comprise a floating dam across the strait.
10:03strong in firepower, strong in determination to hold.
10:07The Admiral orders positions taken.
10:22PT boats, trained to attack anything afloat, with no defense but speed, skill, daring, patrol
10:29the southern end of Surigao Strait.
10:32In the fore of the battle line, these fragile sentinels prepare to draw the first blood.
10:49Behind the PT patrol is the destroyer picket line.
10:52Behind the destroyers are the cruisers.
10:54And behind the cruiser, the battleship.
10:57All hands are quiet.
11:00Tense.
11:01Waiting.
11:29The Japanese hurl themselves headlong through the dark, into the trap.
11:46Midnight, October 24th.
11:49Inside the Japanese force, detection gear picks up their enemy.
11:54Suddenly, brilliantly, searchlights dispel the night.
11:58The battle of Surigao Strait is on.
12:07The PT sailors let go all torpedoes in their savage attack, throwing the enemy off balance.
12:22The PT's have done their job.
12:25Located the enemy.
12:27Attacked the enemy.
12:28Betrayed the enemy to the bigger boys.
12:31Now destroyers, cruisers, battleships.
12:33All in position.
12:34All in position.
12:35All in battle station.
12:36Take up the fight.
12:38The Japanese are in the trap.
12:40And the jaws close.
13:04Old battleships that arose from the muck and humiliation of Pearl Harbor.
13:08California.
13:10West Virginia.
13:12Tennessee.
13:13Maryland.
13:15Deliver salvo after salvo.
13:17With the Japanese under their guns, the old battleships take their vengeance through the
13:22Gulf Stream.
13:43The debris of Japanese disaster littered mile after mile of Surigao Strait.
13:47More than 5,000 Japanese sailors are wounded.
13:51Missing.
13:52Dead.
13:56The survivors, fanatical to the last, refuse to be rescued.
14:01The Japanese southern force is destroyed.
14:09But there is no time for celebration.
14:12To the north, San Bernardino Strait.
14:14Un-guarded, open waterway leading to the approaches of Leyte Gulf.
14:18Through this passage, the Japanese central force of battleships, cruisers, destroyers,
14:23steams at 20 knots.
14:26This is the force that was turned back.
14:28But if it could turn once, it could turn again.
14:32And turn it half toward Leyte.
14:42Only light American units, small escort carriers, destroyers, guard this approach to Leyte Gulf.
14:49The onrushing Japanese are first sighted by surprise, horrified search planes from the
14:53escort carriers.
14:55Should these 22 enemy ships break through, they will turn the Leyte landings into bloody
15:00shambles.
15:11Borders go out to the thin line of destroyers.
15:14Attack.
15:15Hit the cruisers.
15:16Block the battleships.
15:18These sailors sacrifice themselves for Leyte in the battle of Samar.
15:45The Japanese force includes the largest warship ever built, the Yamato, mounting the
15:50biggest gun afloat.
15:52Open fire, orders the Japanese admiral, letting the feeble defenders feel the full sting of
15:57the Imperial Navy.
16:11Barrage after barrage straddles the escort carriers, protected only by the intrepid destroyers.
16:34Destroyers lay screens of real and chemical smoke between the escort carriers and the enemy,
16:39then bore in to deliver a furious torpedo attack, one of the most frantic, desperate actions
16:44of the war at sea.
17:00Every plane that can get off the escort carriers joins the unequal battle.
17:04Trained only for support of ground troops, the jeep pilots hit the Japanese with what
17:08they can, with all they have.
17:26The Japanese keep pounding away, smashing the reeling esteroids, the dauntless destroyers.
17:47But the reckless American attack continues, scattering and confusing the Japanese.
17:52Suddenly, the Japanese make an incredible decision.
17:55With parting saw woes, they break off the fight, they turn back, this time for good.
18:05Five American ships, Gambier Bay, St. Lowe, Johnston, Ho, Roberts, Sondheim, 2,800 casualties.
18:19Meanwhile, far to the north, up Cape Ngannou, the third Japanese force is discovered.
18:25A force that answers the question the Americans have been asking since the start of the battle
18:29for Lady Gulf.
18:31Where are the carriers?
18:33The Japanese northern force includes four carriers, as well as battleships, cruisers, destroyers.
18:40Steaming on a southerly course, the carriers are the final threat to Lady Gulf.
18:59But the task of the northern force is suicidal.
19:02It is to act as decoy, to lure Halsey's third fleet away from Lady Gulf, while the central
19:07and southern forces drive the Americans out of the Philippines.
19:11The Japanese are hopelessly outclassed, short on training, short of plane.
19:17We will be sunk, their admiral admits.
19:20That is our mission.
19:36Radio silence is deliberately broken to betray position.
19:45The dummy messages are intercepted by Halsey's radio men.
19:48The admiral is confronted with a tough problem.
19:52Should he stay at Lady, or sink the Japanese carriers?
19:56Regarding his mission to be offensive rather than defensive, he orders the third fleet north.
20:23The first strike, fifty-five torpedo planes, sixty fighters, sixty-five dive bombers.
20:31Which is the king's head?
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21:19The Japanese maneuver to receive the assault
21:22with massed, intense anti-aircraft fighters.
21:53The Japanese maneuver to receive the assault
22:11Japanese land-based bombers from Luzon.
22:15Halsey ships are the part.
22:30A few Japanese attackers break through, but a single bomber finds its single mark with
22:37a single mark.
22:48The light carry a principle.
22:50One hit is enough.
22:52Rescue efforts by her crew and first aid from the crews of Birmingham cannot prevent a fatal
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23:32has worked, but it availed them nothing. All three of their forces are butchered, beaten, broken.
23:41In four days of far-flung fighting, the Japanese lose three battleships, one large carrier,
23:47three light carriers, six heavy crew, four light crews, nine destroyers, 26 of their finest ships.
23:56Japan ceases to be a naval power. That dream is over. The once magnificent imperial fleet is no more.
24:05It dies in the battle for Lady God, and it dies in vain.
24:51Weets are made by nations. Battles are won.
24:55By men. But when battle is done, the young and brave sleep, heedless of their greatest victory at sea.
25:36The End
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