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  title info:
    title: Crushing the Japanese surface fleet at the Battle of the Surigao Strait
    sub title: the last crossing of the T
  name:
    name part: Zapotoczny, Walter S.
    name part: Jr
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: In late 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific was going badly for Japan. The U.S. Pacific fleet had moved to the Mariana Islands in support of General MacArthur's army, which had landed on the east coast of Leyte in October. The U.S. 7th Fleet was near the Surigao Strait off Leyte. The Japanese strategy was to entrap the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet by its naval forces from the north in the Sibuyan Sea, and with assault from the south from Surigao Strait. On the afternoon of 24 October, 7th Fleet torpedo-boats moved through Leyte Gulf and Surigao Strait into the Mindanao Sea south of Leyte, and by dusk were in position on their patrol-lines. Covering the northern part of the strait, were posted the destroyer squadrons, cruisers, and battleships to form the horizontal bar to a T of vast fire power which the enemy would be forced to approach vertically as he moved forward. With overwhelming force, the impenetrable gauntlet defeated the Japanese at Surigao Strait and played a significant in winning the Battle of Leyte Gulf and in so helping to secure the beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army on Leyte against Japanese attack from the sea
  table of contents: Notable battles in which warships crossed the "T" -- The strategic setting in the Pacific in 1944 -- U.S. naval doctrine in confronting the Japanese fleet -- The U.S. invasion of the Philippines -- Japanese naval doctrine -- The Japanese Philippines defensive plan -- The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- The last crossing of the "T" at Surigao Strait -- Action reports at Surigao Strait -- Battle analysis -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: American fleet at the Surigao Strait -- Appendix II: Allied naval weapons at the Surigao Strait -- Appendix III: Japanese fleet at the Surigao Strait -- Appendix IV: Japanese naval weapons at the Surigao Strait -- Appendix V: Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf biography -- Appendix VI: Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura biography -- Appendix VII: Vice Admiral Kiyohide Shima biography -- Appendix VIII: U.S. ship readiness and material conditions.
  note: Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Navy.
      name part: Fleet, 7th.
  subject:
    topic: Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Naval operations, American
  subject:
    topic: Torpedo-boats
    geographic: United States
  classification: D767.4 .Z37 2022
  classification: 940.54/25
  identifier: 9781781558737
  identifier: 1781558736
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230205
    record change date: 20250318220018.4
    record identifier: in00004729767
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng