USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)

USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) adalah sebuah kapal induk pengawal kelas Casablanca milik Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat. Dia tenggelam dalam Pertempuran Samar selama Pertempuran Teluk Leyte setelah berperan besar dalam memukul balik kapal-kapal permukaan milik Jepang. Dia hanyalah satu-satunya kapal induk Amerika yang tenggelam oleh tembakan musuh selama Perang Dunia II.

USS Gambier Bay

Bacaan lanjutan

• Cox, Robert Jon (2010). The Battle Off Samar: Taffy III at Leyte Gulf (5th Edition). Agogeebic Press, LLC. ISBN 0-9822390-4-1. 
• Cutler, Thomas J. (1994). The Battle of Leyte Gulf 23-26 October 1944. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0060169497. 
• Hoyt, Edwin P. (1979). The Men of the Gambier Bay. Avon Books, New York, NY. ISBN 0-380-55806-8. 
• Ross, Allan (1993). The Escort Carrier "Gambier Bay" -- (Anatomy of the Ship). London: Conway Maritime Press LTD. ISBN 0-85177-613-2. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliott (2011). LEYTE,June 1944 - January 1945 History of United States Naval Operations of World War II. Volume 12. Naval Institute Press,. ISBN 978-1591145356. 
• Sears, David (2007). The Last Epic Naval Battle-Voices of Leyte. Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. ISBN 978-0275985202. 
• Thomas, Evan (2006). Sea of Thunder. Simon & Schulster. ISBN 978-0743252218. 
• Y'Blood, William T. (2012). THE LITTLE GIANTS: U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1557509802. 

Pranala luar

• USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) & Composite Squadron VC-10 official website
• USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) & Composite Squadron VC-10 association website
• Building the Gambier Bay (CVE-73) in 1/72 Scale article by Bill Waldorf
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Gambier Bay
• NavSource Online: Escort Carrier Photo Archive USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
• The Battle Off Samar - Taffy III at Leyte Gulf website by Robert Jon Cox
• Donation of model to USS Midway
• The Ship Has Sunk and the Sharks are Hungry The account of survivor Earl Bagley