Kurita Fleet Track Formation of Nishimura Force Approaching Leyte Gulf Nishimura and Shima Tracks for Penetration of Leyte Gulf ILLUSTRATIONS Photographs between pages 126 and 127 Maps and Charts Diagram of Torpedo and Bomb Hits in Repulse and Prince of Wales Solomon Islands Area Operation A Task Force 58 Formations, 19 June 1944 Outranging Tactics in the Marianas Naval Battle, June 1944 Tracks of Main Japanese Forces, Battles for Leyte Gulf, October 1944 Combined Fleet Formation Heading East in Sibuyan Sea at 0800, 24 October 1944 Sibuyan Sea Battle, 24 October 1944. Norton edition published 1962 Jove edition / December 1984 Copyright © 1956 by Masanori Ito English translation copyright © 1962 by W. KURODA AND ROGER PINEAU A JOVE BOOK PRINTING HISTORY W. THE END OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY MASANORI ITO WITH ROGER PINEAU TRANSLATED BY ANDREW Y. " -ARMY-NAVY-AIR FORCE JOURNAL & REGISTER "A must for anybody writing about the Japanese Navy for a century to come. It was simply a question of how long Yamato could endure their onslaught. Planes were shot down, but new attack waves came on incessantly. Yamato's 150 antiaircraft and machine guns raised a curtain of shellfire into the sky. Speeding at 27 knots, the ships opened fire against their aerial foes. The fleet shifted into antiaircraft formation. Suddenly there were hundreds of planes filling the sky.
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