Admiral takeo kurita s center force which was made up of four battleships six heavy cruisers two light cruisers and 11 destroyers had been hit by air strikes from halsey s third fleet in the sibuyan sea the previous day. Admiral takeo kurita s central force included the two largest battleships ever built the 65 000 ton yamato and musashi.
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In essence it was a more complictaed big gun battle ala the 7th fleet standards vs yamashiro and crew.
Kurita center force. The new force dubbed task force 34 would consist of four battleships five cruisers and nineteen destroyers and when organized would be commanded by vice adm. While the aircraft carriers of admiral william bull halsey wreaked terror on the center force of takeo kurita two other japanese task forces approached the invasion beaches of leyte. However at the moment taffy 3 was sighted center force was in the midst of changing from nighttime scouting to daytime air defense steaming formation.
Crisis in the pacific by gerald astor. However on october 23 u s. My thinking and supposition when modding it in command at sea was that tf 34 intercepted center force before it lit up the taffies and the small boys.
Task unit of six escort carriers three destroyers and four destroyer escorts of seventh fleet. The americans were taken entirely by surprise because the seventh fleet had firmly believed that its northern flank was being protected by admiral halsey s immensely powerful third fleet which consisted of ten fleet carriers and six fast battleships. As it sortied from its base in brunei kurita s powerful center force consisted of five battleships yamato musashi nagato kongō and haruna ten heavy cruisers atago maya takao chōkai myōkō haguro kumano suzuya tone and chikuma two light cruisers noshiro and yahagi and 15 destroyers.
The japanese center force of 23 japanese warships four battleships eight cruisers and eleven destroyers commanded by admiral kurita engaged a u s. Historically tf 34 was believed to be guarding sbs against just such a foray by kurita. As halsey and his ships raced north through the night in pursuit of ozawa s decoy carriers kurita who had turned his battered but still potent center force around again was once more threading his way through the interior waterways toward san bernardino heading for the open sea and leyte gulf.
Kurita s ships thus charged uncoordinated into action and kurita quickly lost tactical control of the battle a situation not helped by poor visibility intermittent rain squalls and a wind. As it sortied from its base in brunei kurita s powerful center force consisted of five battleships yamato musashi nagato kongō and haruna ten heavy cruisers atago maya takao chōkai myōkō haguro kumano suzuya tone and chikuma two light cruisers noshiro and yahagi and 15 destroyers. Aware that kurita s battered force remained afloat he also decided to make arrangements to form another force from his larger ships that would be tasked with protecting the san bernardino strait.
Submarines detected the force and sank two.
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