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“The BATTLE Of LEYTE GULF” The Death Knell of the Japanese Fleet. By Edwin P. Hoyt. From the author of "Submarines At War" and "Bowfin." Disaster and triumph in the bloodiest sea battle of World War II and the largest naval battle ever fought. American submarine USS Darter among the many U.S. ships lost in this epic multi-day battle. It was October 1944 and the Japanese committed virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial Japanese Navy, including battleships Yamato and Musashi, which were the most powerful war ships ever built. Likewise the American's too used everything from PT boats, submarines, battleships and aircraft carriers. 1972 first edition Hardback, with dust jacket. NOT a book club edition, this is a slighter larger book with nicer paper, not found in the book club editions. 314 pages, 31 black and white photos, index but no maps.
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Other books by Edwin P. Hoyt
At Dawn We Slept - by Gordon W. Prange
The Men of the Gambier Bay
Other titles of interest
The Battle Of Leyte Gulf - The Battle of Leyte Gulf. By Edwin Hoyt
The Battle Off Midway Island - The Battle for Midway
Blue Skies and Blood - The Battle of the Coral Sea
Combat Command - by Fredrick C. Sherman
The Glory Of The Solomons - by Edwin P. Hoyt
Guadalcanal - By Richard B. Frank
Guadalcanal Decision At Sea - The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 13 – 15, 1942
Iwo Jima - The Battle for Iwo Jima
Midway - The Battle for Midway
The Pacific Campaign - By Dan van der Vat
Pacific Onslaught - By Paul Kennedy
The Pacific War 1941 - 1945 - By John Costello
Pacific War Diary 1942 - 1945 - By James J. Fahey
Pearl Harbor Final Judgement - By Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee
Red Sun Setting - The Battle of the Phillippine Sea
SAVO - by Richard F. Newcomb
Wake Island - by Duane Schultz
World War II Super Facts - by Don McCombs and Fred L. Worth