Leyte Gulf - Battle of Cape Engano - Animated

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Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet has headed north searching for the Japanese Northern Fleet. While Taffy 3 fights for its life to the south, Halsey has the opportunity to cripple the last of Japans aircraft carriers.

[TheOperationsRoom]

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[QemeH]

To be fair, Halsey was _really_ lucky that Taffy 3 fought a _spectecular_ action against the main force and managed to score an improbable strategic win. Because if center force would've been successfull in rolling up the rear of the landing operations as planned, his departure to the north (against orders, it has to be said!) would not have gone over as smoothly as they did. The navy was ready to overlook the problem because on balance the IJN lost big time - but let's face the post facto truth of this: it was Taffy 3's exceptional performance who earned this victory, not anything Halsey did or didn't do. And I think he himself knew this best as indicated by his breakdown when faced with what was happening to Taffy 3 and his inability to take back his mistake.

[sylvainprigent]

While we can criticise him for leaving the San Bernardino straight unguarded, I think he should be criticised for not leaving even a picket ships. 2 destroyers patrolling the area will be enough to spot all the BB fleet coming.

[Randall]

As I recall, not only is "The World Wonders" a seeming reprimand by itself, but I think as a phrase it's part of a few lines from "The Charge of the Light Brigade, " wherein it's in tandem with another phrase: "Someone had blundered." So assuming Halsey knew his Tennyson (he probably did), one phrase would also have recalled the other, and would have thus seemed even more damning. He would have interpreted it as a message from Nimitz saying, in metaphor, "you have made a terrible and costly mistake."

[Fireheart]

Imagine being Admiral Ozawa; being the decoy force to find out you're the only one to have successfully pulled off your mission, everyone else being wiped out (Nishimura) or quitting at one point or another (Shima and Kurita). It had to have been frustrating to have found that out, whether in the days/weeks/months after the battle or in the years following the war.

[GuardianViolet]

Interesting thing about Zuikaku, in nearly every battle she participated in, the outcome was the same: Her sister Shōkaku was damaged, Zuikaku escapes without so much as a scratch on her. It happened at Coral Sea, Eastern Solomons, and Santa Cruz Islands. Zuikaku only took battle damage for the first time in her career after Shōkaku was sunk at Philippine Sea, and was sunk the first time she went into a battle without Shōkaku here at Cape Engaño. Her name, meaning Auspicious Crane, ended up being rather fitting.

Also thanks for mentioning Hatsuzuki, she's long been one of my favorite Japanese destroyers for her actions during this battle. Almost like Japan's USS Johnston in a way, and on the same day as well.

[JohnSmith-qews]

Funny how both the Americans and Japanese got a chance to have at least one very stubborn destroyer facing off against a vastly superior enemy force and sacrificing itself to save the rest of the fleet, and on the same day at that.

[unclepauly]

I can’t explain the hype I feel when a new operations room ww2 navy video comes out.

[tng]

After this series of battles, Halsey got mocked by various journalists for taking Ozawa’s bait and neglecting Samar, calling the battle series ‘Bull’s Run’, in comparison with American Civil War’s major Union defeat at Battle of Bull Run. ‘Bull’ of course was Halsey himself.

[randomlyentertaining]

"The world wonders"
The world's greatest coincidental accidental burn.

[iain-duncan]

Admiral Halsey really threw an actual temper tantrum on the bridge of a warship

[ryderbunce]

I’m always surprised at how many crewmen are killed when the ship sinks 1-2 hours after the captain orders them to abandon ship.

[chardaskie]

I’ll never forgive Halsey for stopping the Iowa Class V Yamoto from happening

[robf]

It's incredible that essentially every ship in task force 38 had been built in the past 2 and a half years. The manufacturing capacity of the US back then was truly on another level

[grandadmiralzaarin]

It's really nothing short of a miracle that Ise and Hyuga got through Leyte without being destroyed as they were already obsolete and their conversion to partial carriers effectively just made them less capable in both categories.

[danielpimienta]

What a brave last stand by the Hatsuzuki, it wasn't meant to be like Taffy 3 though.

[seeky]

"I've read this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Halsey acted stupidly."

[main]

It’s always a good day whenever operation room uploads

[ToddChaddingtonEsq]

this channel has created a great blend of describing strategic concerns, applications of tactics, and narrative engagement with descriptions of actions on the human scale. fantastic work as always

[neilaslayer]

History treats Halsey far better than he deserves. His blunders are monumental, From Taffey 3 to Typhoon Cobra. If there was a blunder to be made Halsey was there to make it.