the attack by the Japanese fleet against the US pacific naval forces…
Ballantine's illustrated History of World War II, battle book No. 11. The Battle for Leyte Gulf; a desperate gamble by Imperial Japan when she risked the remnants of her Fleet in an all-out effort to retain her conquests and safeguard her supply routes against the might American Pacific forces. Here is the background story to this great sea battle, which saw the suicidal Kamikaze units in use for the first time.