My father was aboard the Honolulu crusier. He never ever spoke of this He was 19 years old in the magazine of the ship handling shells and propellant, he passed at 92. Yes the greatest generation

An excellent lecture explaining the Battle of Leyte Gulf by LT Commander Tom Cutler. It was so impressive and so informative and a perfect presentation for historians and students interested in WW Ii Naval Warfare. Congrats to The UNMA for the lecture and to Lt. Commander Tom Cutler, a good and dear friend. I am very proud of him! Love, Raquel

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors is the most complete detailed account of the Battle Off Samar. The battle did not end when the Japanese disengaged, it was just beginning for those in the water....

I am pro Mac but I understand some people were overwhelmed by his persona. Thanks for an informative lecture.

Very good lecture, Thank you.

Great Lecture. Too bad they had the screen washed out with spot lights in the room.

Great lecture.

An amazing battle, and a stark example of the hollow shell the Imperial Navy had become.

The Gneisenau took out and sunk a big British Carrier by Gun Fire, it said the first time a CV (a little one) sunk by Gun Fire?

remedial - doesn't into the actual ships involved for ijn.

Now I have to buy another book.

i wish he had more time to discuss details.

Why do we as (ex-)military professionals make extensive use of the exaggerations of a poet? Imagine that, a Navy Officer using an Army Operation as a metaphor for a Naval Operation. Did the Sea State at the time of the battle present a similar, if more fluid, situation to the battle of Balaclava or is the metaphor strictly referring to a lightly armed force attacking a more heavily armed force? To my mind the so-called Charge of the Light Brigade is overused in the same way Clausewitz is, distorting important details about the battle in order to make the lecture more "understandable" to a wider, less professional, audience.

J

this guy whitewashed Halsey a bit and also made it sound like Halsey acted quickly to turn around when actually he steamed forward for another hour before turning around.

Fascinating. I agree, Leyete Gulf is a monumental topic, and while, Japan, could never have won at this stage of the war, a major disaster with the Yamoto task force actually going through the smokescreen of the escort carriers and suicidal destroyer defence and smashing into the US landing armies on the Philippines beaches,; combined with Halsey actually taking the Iowa fleet north and losing a couple of new battleships in the long lance trap ( 60k , 20 mile long range Japanese HTP torpedoes) which had worked well at Guadalcanal taking 10 USN cruisers.... the possibility is that Japan Tojo war regime may have brought 6 months, and the 7kt and 9kt bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, may not have been conclusive and catastrophic war and permanent militarisation may have continued into 1946, with unknowable if any conclusion. The huge scale of the Pacific and the fact that Japan was still able to deploy and position three battle fleets after three of all out warfare with the US shows that Japan industrial capacity and military dictatorship were probably the most dangerous component of the Axis triple threat, and certainly, at least at least equal to Hitler. MacArthur was absolutely right in stressing that the Pacific should have been the US priority and post Leyete Gulf giving Admiral Halsey total support in his decision, not to risk the 4 Iowa battleships in a pointless and risky, second big gunfight. Oldendorff had won the second Jutland, it actually occurred in the Sugaro straights, late 1944.