The Battle of Leyte Gulf
"The Second battle of the phillippines"
Date(s) Fought
October 23-26, 1944
Who was involved?
Japan & the Allies
Takeo Kurita
Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the war .
William Halsey
Commanded the south Pacific during the early stages of the war against Japan .
Shoji Nishimura
Admiral in the imperial Japanese Navy during the war .
Where the battle was fought?
This battle was fought near Singapore, in the Phillippine waters
What made this batte significant?
This battle was significant to the war because, we stopped most of Japan's navy we most likely avoided another Pearl Harbor incident
What were the amounts of casualties on both sides?
Japan: 16,550 killed .
US: 8,310 killed .
US: 8,310 killed .
Who won the battle?
Even though Japan started using kamikazes, destroying many US ships, the Allies over through Japans naval fleet, and it lead to the bombing in Japan, which they later surrendered after .
3 facts
- This battle was the largest naval battle in history causing a huge number of casualties on both sides .
- Japan had a fear of losing the war, so with the destructive power they knew that kamikazes had, they started using them
- The US was using island hopping through out this battle, taking over different islands to scare the Japanese
kamikazes
These kamikazes were Japan last resort, in battle they were very effective because they were full of gasoline, and we could not have known which ones were kamikazes
the bombing of the ships
The bombing and kamikazes were the main reasons why we were losing ships . They were unable to defeat us on the sea
people assited the war
The people of Japan & US were volunteering for the war, to make sure that they won . in the end the US pulled through