Japan Sent Two Battleships Into a Strait - The U.S. Had Already Built the Perfect Ambush
On October 25, 1944, Admiral Shoji Nishimura led the Japanese battleships Yamashiro and Fuso into Surigao Strait, believing the narrow passage was his road into Leyte Gulf. Instead, Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf had transformed it into a massive layered ambush. PT boats tracked the Japanese advance, American destroyers launched devastating torpedo attacks from both sides, and six U.S. battleships waited across the northern exit - five of them veterans of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Using radar-guided fire and the classic "crossing the T" maneuver, the Americans turned the Battle of Surigao Strait into one of the most overwhelming naval victories of World War II and the last battleship-versus-battleship action in history. Discover how geography, radar, torpedoes, and overwhelming firepower destroyed Nishimura's Southern Force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Sources: https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us... https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-b... https://www.history.navy.mil/content/...
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