The Battle of Leyte Gulf was a tough slog, where U.S. maritime forces reclaimed a beachhead in the Far East after being expelled in 1941-1942. In reality, Leyte Gulf was a series of naval ...

Just look at the map. Wresting the islands of Leyte and Luzon from Japan capped MacArthur’s island-hopping campaign, ... The Battle of Leyte Gulf drove a stake into the empire, ...

Revisiting the Greatest Naval Battle. Commemorating the 75 th anniversary of the greatest naval battle of modern times, Prof. Cutler (Naval War College) has collected two dozen papers to recall the ...