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SAINT
The planes of Task Force 38 hit the Japanese Center Force hard—but not hard enough to take it out of the fight.
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22 October 1944: In the lead-up to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, an F6F Hellcat fighter is raised to the flight deck of the USS Essex as an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber, followed by a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, prepares to take off.
Sound and Fury Over Sibuyan Sea
The planes of Task Force 38 attacking the Japanese Center Force during Leyte managed to sink the mighty battleship Musashi—yet the Center Force lived to fight another day.
22 October 1944: In the lead-up to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, an F6F Hellcat fighter is raised to the flight deck of the USS Essex as an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber, followed by a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, prepares to take off.