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Actual footage and Computer Generates image of the USS Johnson. For any of you who don't know the story of Taffy 3 and the Battle of Samar I'll leave the story below

3 Hit's from Yamato's 18 inch guns plus various and sundry other hits.






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Good thread! I thought I'd add this video.




In one of the most amazing yet lopsided naval battles in history, a mighty Japanese fleet led by the Yamato, the biggest battleship in the world, versus Taffy 3, a small U.S. task unit, in Season 1, Episode 8, " Death of the Japanese Navy."


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One of the greatest, but most costly bluffs in the history of warfare. Those guys fought so fierce and gallantly the Japanese cried "uncle" and left, not knowing they had won and could have kept going with little stopping them..

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Wow. It is a testament to the men that fought that battle knowing they had no chance of winning.

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Impressive.


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A great generation of young American Men, Heros and Patriots ...of which the likes will be seen no more !

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There's a great book on that battle The Last Stand of the tin can sailors by James D hornFisher


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