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  • Jesse Oldendorf/Definition
    ...vy]]; a gunnery specialist best known as the victorious commander at the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]]
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  • Shoji Nishimura/Definition
    ...n action while leading [[Battle of Leyte Gulf#Force "C"|Force C]] in the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]]
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  • Jesse Oldendorf
    ...distinguished [[World War II]] career best known for his victory at the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]]. He is known, then, as the last [[battleship]] admiral to win a combat en
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  • Kiyohide Shima/Definition
    ...attle of Leyte Gulf#Second Striking Force|Second Striking Force]] in the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]]; commanded invasion force at Tulagi; much of career was shore and adminis
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  • Shoji Nishimura/Related Articles
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  • Shoji Nishimura
    ...commanding [[Battle of Leyte Gulf#Force "C"|Japanese Force "C"]] at the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]] within the [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]]. Nishimura was regarded as an old "se | title = Battle of Surigao Strait
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  • Battle of Leyte Gulf/Related Articles
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  • IJN Shigure/Related Articles
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  • Fast attack craft/Related Articles
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  • Jisaburo Ozawa
    ...yte Gulf. Of Vice Admiral Shoji Nishimura, who was killed in action at the Battle of Surigao Strait, Ozawa said Nishimura was the only one of the four Japanese force commande | title = Battle of Surigao Strait
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  • History of the U.S. Navy/Related Articles
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  • IJN Shigure
    ...f the [[Destroyer#Battle of Vella Gulf|Battle of Vella Gulf]] and of the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]] and an escort mission for the aircraft carrier ''IJN Unryū''. On a much
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  • World War II/Related Articles
    * [[Battle of Surigao Strait]]
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  • Battle of Surigao Strait
    ...battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf (actually a campaign), the '''Battle of Surigao Strait''', on the night of 24-25 October 1944, was the last engagement in which ba | chapter= Chapter 8: The Leyte Operation - Battle of Surigao Strait
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  • Destroyer/Related Articles
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  • Des Moines-class
    ...surface gunfire actions disappeared into the echoes of history after the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]], when aircraft had taken over the scouting role, and when [[guided missil
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  • USS Wasatch (AGC-9)
    ====Battle of Surigao Strait==== ...Southern Force" and in short order annihilated the enemy warships in the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]].
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  • Fast attack craft
    .... The U.S., however, used both FAC and destroyer launched torpedoes at the Battle of Surigao Strait. The PT boat FACs were more of a nuisance to the Japanese, while the destro
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  • Torpedo
    ...ose to starving Japan and the U.K. Major surface actions, including the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]], the last battleship-to-battleship action, were quite effective.
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  • Battle of Leyte Gulf
    | title = Battle of Surigao Strait ...Shigeru, IJN; Commanding Officer of the Japanese destroyer SHIGURE in the Battle of SURIGAO STRAIT on 25 October 1944
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  • Battleship
    ...re to fight again, but not as the core of a surface force, except at the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]] — more of an execution than a battle. For the limited surface gunfi ...it did not involve the most advanced battleships of the US or Japan, the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]] was the last engagement involving battleships on both sides, which actual
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  • Destroyer
    ...Second World War were dominated by destroyers, even in cases, such as the Battle of Surigao Strait, where larger ships are often given credit. There are also cases where des ======Battle of Surigao Strait======
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  • Swarming (military)
    ===Battle of Surigao Strait: Decisive swarming victory=== ...a major engagement but was dwarfed by the overall Leyte operation, was the Battle of Surigao Strait, the last battleship-to-battleship gun duel in history. Battle of Leyte Gul
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  • Naval guns and gunnery
    ...es]]'' in 1941. The last battleship-versus-battleship engagement was the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]] in 1945, although torpedoes played a major part. The last combat involvin ...age, the last engagement with big-gun ships engaging one another was the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]] during the [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]] in 1944.
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  • Cruiser
    ...gnized that the last major surface gunfire action had taken place in the [[Battle of Surigao Strait]], and that scouting had become an aircraft function. Naval planners, there
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