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Japan had it’s fleet wiped out at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and moved completely to Kamikaze attacks.

Aircraft did a lot of the sinkings in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Was that reported around Leyte gulf and areas where thousands perished at sea?

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the biggest naval battle in history.

Zuikaku was quickly sunk by aircraft in Battle of Leyte Gulf.

He also fell for the Japanese faint at Leyte Gulf.

My grandfather was also the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Japanese fleet successfully sent a decoy carrier fleet to draw the American carriers northward, away from the transports at Leyte Gulf, while main battleship fleet went in to mop up.

The critical loss for the Japanese navy was at Leyte Gulf, which was the largest naval battle in the Pacific during the war (and possibly the largest naval battle in history).

They were going to fight to the last, and let me tell you (as the husband of someone who's grandfather fought on Leyte and Okinawa), the Japanese were brutal and vicious.

I watched the local news over dinner today and here is the latest: People sleeping near the tarmac, waiting to get out of Leyte as soon as possible.

The closest the Japanese got in WW2 to their actual Kantai Kessen plan was the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was launched in a hope of actually forcing the decisive battle they craved, although from a position of pretty clear weakness.

I'd say the last true test of the "fighting culture" of the Navy came during the Samar phase of Leyte.

>In September 1945, shortly after arriving in the Phillippines to serve as a US Navy radio and radar technician, then twenty year old Doug Engelbart ran across the latest issue of Life Magazine, which included a reprint of Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think." He found the magazine in a Red Cross library located in a traditional hut on stilts on the island of Leyte.

(It's possible you could find some reasoning to support the "impress the Soviets" part, but to make that the primary motive would be to ignore the majority.) Also, keep in mind that Halsey had a bit of a problem with Nimitz and much of the Navy, particularly over the matter of two typhoons and Leyte Gulf, so he may not be entirely unbiased.

As a person intimately familiar with the Tacloban/Leyte area, that's hard to accomplish since the area is so low-lying where it hit hardest.

Ports in Cebu are filled with people going to Leyte, some travels are cancelled due to bad weather.

In Leyte, 10,000 people died, but the system which supported tens of thousands more living is broken.