Considered by historians as the "Greatest Battle in Naval History," this book describes the World War II Battle for Leyte Gulf from October 23, 1944, when two American submarines were sent to the bottom by two Japanese cruisers, to October 26, when Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 38 ended the pursuit of the Japanese ships that survived the battles. Biographies & photographs of the veterans of the Battle of Leyte Gulf are featured.