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Their central thrust, with a force built around five battleships, would rush the narrow San Bernardino Strait and strike Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet, guarding the Leyte beach head, on its northern flank...
This reasoning seemed historically sound. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, the half-Nelson of Japan, had caught Russian Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet 18,000-miles off base in Tsushima Strait and destroyed...
...battered southern fleet had escaped through Luzon Strait (between Luzon and Formosa). It had a choice of bases (see map) for repairs and refits. The Battle of the Eastern Philippines was ended...
...Allied plans for the North African invasion. As many as 600 invasion planes at one time crowded Gibraltar's airfield within range of Spanish guns; a great fleet of Allied shipping rested in Spanish waters, under Spanish guns. But the Spaniards did not interfere. If they had, "the Strait of Gibraltar would have been closed, and all access to the Mediterranean would have been cut off from the west, and the Spanish coasts would have become a nesting place for German U-boats...
...April 8, the cork blew out. Bataan was gone, thousands were dead. Thousands had fallen into the hands of Homma's frenzied and victorious troops. Only a few got across the strait to Corregidor...