I did watch a documentary about that battle at history channel a few months ago. I thnk its called Battle 360 and its about the USS Enterprise in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.Try searching the documentary on youtube or something because it's epic!!

 

ive seen it ive studied Taffy 3 and the pacific campain alot

Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans, Commanding the USS Johnson directed his ship to turn and engage the enemy. He died during this action, commanding his ship until its sinking. Awarded the CMH. A member of the Cherokee Nation.

Yup. Halsey got greedy, took his 3rd fleet and sprinted off to the north chasing the carrier decoy force taking the 6 newer fast battleships with him that was to remain and protect the landing forces and the Taffy units. Taffy 3 was just Destroyers and jeep Carriers, but fought with such intensity that the japanese force turned back. Amazing courage those men had. They were completely outmatched and vastly outgunned going against 5 IJN battleships, several heavy and light cruisers and a host of destroyers. Yet they fought head to head, sacrificing all and saved thousands of lives in the process.

Also earlier that day in Surigao Strait the 7th fleet battships consisting of; USS West Virginia, USS California, USS Tennessee, USS Maryland, USS Pennsylvania and USS Mississippi with their cruiser and destroyer escorts engaged and sank and/or damaged the IJN battleships Yamashiro and Fuso and severely damaged the cruiser Mogami as well as sinking 2 of the 4 IJN destroyers in a combination of naval gunfire from the heavy warships and torpedoes from the destroyers. (It should be noted that due to the Mississippi and Pennsylvania not recieving the extensive fire control upgrades that the other battleships did after Pearl Harbor, that they were ineffective. The Penny never fired a shot). Adm Oldendorf pulled off a text book naval tactic of "crossing the T". This battle also was the last time any battleship fired on another battleship and also marked the last naval surface battle between heavy units.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf marked its spot in the history books of being one of the biggest and last naval ship to ship surface warfare battles fought on the oceans.

The Samuel B Roberts.

That escord destroyer that fought like a battleship. Went toe to toe with a Heavy Cruiser.

He was used as a source for the History Channel "Dogfights" episode that covered this event but i highly recommend reading James Hornfischer's "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour "

Very detailed with quite a few interviews.

i have done alot of research and studys on taffy3 and the battle of leyte gulf i wish some of the missions on NF would reflect TF3 more