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  2. Battle off Samar - Wikipedia

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    The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on October 25, 1944. It was the only major action in the larger battle in which the Americans were largely unprepared.

  3. USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) - Wikipedia

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    The ship was part of Task Unit 77.4.3 ("Taffy 3"), escort carriers only protected by relatively few destroyers and destroyer escorts. Task Unit 77.4.3 was inadvertently left to fend off a fleet of heavily armed Japanese battleships, cruisers, and destroyers off the island of Samar.

  4. USS Hoel (DD-533) - Wikipedia

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    These units, known by their radio calls as the "Three Taffys", began operating off Samar 18 October 1944 to cover the landings on Leyte. Hoel was attached to "Taffy 3" (Escort Carrier Task Unit 77.4.3) commanded by Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague and comprising four escort carriers guarded by destroyers Hoel, Heermann, and Johnston.

  5. Battle of Leyte Gulf - Wikipedia

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    As a result of Taffy 1 being so far south of Samar, not many Taffy 1 airplanes participated in the Battle off Samar. While in the air southwest of Leyte Gulf, the aircraft and ships of Taffy 1 were immediately ordered to assist Taffy 3 off of Samar but they had to return to the escort carriers to refuel and rearm.

  6. Invasion of Leyte naval order of battle - Wikipedia

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    "Taffy 3" Rear Admiral Clifton A.F. Sprague 6 escort carriers Fanshaw Bay (Capt. D.P. Johnson) Composite Squadron 68 (Lt. Cmdr. R.S. Rogers) 16 FM-2 Wildcat fighters 12 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers St. Lo (sunk at the Battle off Samar, 25 Oct) (Capt. Francis J. McKenna) Composite Squadron 65 (Lt. Cmdr. R.M. Jones, USMR) 17 FM-2 Wildcat fighters

  7. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - Wikipedia

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    A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club, the book tells the story of the remarkable two-and-a-half-hour sea battle fought on October 25, 1944, in which Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague's task unit, known as "Taffy 3" (7th Fleet's Task Unit 77.4.3), of escort carriers and their "tin can" escorts rose to the impossible challenge of beating back an overwhelming ...

  8. USS Kalinin Bay - Wikipedia

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    Comprising four battleships, eight cruisers, and eleven destroyers, Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force steadily closed and at 0658 opened fire on Taffy 3. So began the Battle off Samar—one of the most memorable engagements in U.S. naval history. Outnumbered and outgunned, the slower Taffy 3 seemed fated for disaster; but the American ...

  9. Naval task force - Wikipedia

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    Task Force 77—including "Taffy 3", or Task Unit 77.4.3, which gained significant fame during the Battle off Samar during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Task Force 77 continued in existence, and was deployed to the Sea of Japan during the Korean War, and in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War .

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