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...southern prong had been struck by air attack, was plowing on. Before it stood the heavy firepower of Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. The Seventh would stop it, and smash it to bits in the twelve-mile-wide gut of Surigao. The northern group, approaching San Bernardino Strait, had also been air-attacked. Airmen reported that it had been turned back...
Although black-browed Tom Kinkaid had received divisions of escort carriers and at least five battleships to fill out the contours of his normally skinny fleet, the Japs knew he would be hard pressed to stave off this assault. To make doubly sure, their southernmost force would charge through Surigao Strait. Either or both of these forces would strive for a chance to pot sitting ducks - the helpless transports off Leyte...
Their third, northernmost force, which included four of their precious, dwindling stock of flattops, would send off planes to smear Admiral Mitscher's bare-decked carriers when the latters planes were far away, giving Kinkaid support which the Japs' were confident he would need and demand...
Oversight. On paper it was a fine complex plan. There were only two things against it: one was that Old Stagers Halsey, Mitscher and Kinkaid were comb ing the seas with planes and submarines looking for the attack; another was the overwhelming power of the U.S. force...
Good News for the Cripples. "Bull" Halsey's swift stroke had been brilliantly successful, but he was going to have to let some of the cripples get away. In mid-battle, he got a desperate call for help from Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. Had Halsey stayed too long at his appointment in the north? Kinkaid's jeep carriers had already caught it hot & heavy from the Japs' central force, which whipped through San Bernardino Strait before dawn-before the jeeps' aircraft could get off. The CVEs were at no pains to hide their plight: they...