Pertempuran Teluk Leyte
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Pertempuran Teluk Leyte, yang awalnya dikenal sebagai Pertempuran Laut Filipina Kedua, adalah pertempuran angkatan laut yang umumnya dianggap terbesar pada Perang Dunia II dan, menurut beberapa kriteria, mungkin pertempuran angkatan laut terbesar dalam sejarah[4][5]
| Pertempuran Teluk Leyte | |||||||||
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| Bagian dari Perang Pasifik pada Perang Dunia II | |||||||||
_burning_on_24_October_1944_(80-G-287970).jpg) Kapal induk ringan Princeton terbakar, timur Luzon, 24 Oktober 1944. | |||||||||
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| Pihak terlibat | |||||||||
 Amerika Serikat Australia |
 Kekaisaran Jepang | ||||||||
| Tokoh dan pemimpin | |||||||||
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William Halsey, Jr. (3rd Fleet) Thomas C. Kinkaid(7th Fleet) Clifton Sprague(Taffy 3 / Task Unit 77.4.3) Jesse B. Oldendorf(Task Group 77.2) John Augustine Collins(Task Force 74) |
 Takeo Kurita(Center Force) Shōji Nishimura †(Southern Force) Kiyohide Shima (Pasukan di Selatan) Jisaburō Ozawa (Pasukan di Utara) Yukio Seki † (Kamikaze) | ||||||||
| Kekuatan | |||||||||
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Total ~300 kapal[1] 8 armada kapal induk 8 kapal induk ringan 18 kapal induk kawal 12 kapal tempur 24 kapal penjelajah 166 kapal perusak dan kapal perusak kawal Banyak PT boat, kapal selam, dan armada cadangan Sekitar 1,500 pesawat |
67+ kapal 1 armada kapal induk 3 kapal induk ringan 9 kapal tempur 14 kapal penjelajah berat 6 kapal penjelajah ringan 35+ kapal perusak 300+ pesawat[2] | ||||||||
| Korban | |||||||||
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~3,000 korban; 1 kapal induk ringan, 2 kapal induk kawal, 2 kapal perusak, 1 kapal perusak kawal 200+ pesawat |
~12,500 tewas; 1 armada induk, 3 kapal induk kawal 3 kapal tempur, 10 kapal penjelajah, 11 kapal perusak tenggelam ~300 pesawat[3] | ||||||||
Pertempuran tersebut terjadi di perairan Teluk Leyte, dekat pulau Filipina Leyte, Samar dan Luzon, dari 23–26 Oktober 1944, antara kombinasi pasukan Amerika dan Australia dan Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang.
Pertempuran tersebut terdiri dari empat pertempuran yang terpisah antara pasukan yang berlawanan: Pertempuran Laut Sibuyan, Pertempuran Selat Surigao, Pertempuran Tanjung Engaño dan Pertempuran Samar, serta aksi lainnya.[6]
Peristiwa tersebut merupakan pertempuran pertama dimana pesawat Jepang melakukan serangan kamikaze secara terorganisir.[7][8]
Referensi
Catatan
- ^ History of United States Naval Operations in World War II' by S.E. Morison- Volume XII 'Leyte' (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1963)
- ^ Thomas, Evan (2006). Sea of Thunder. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. hlm. 209–210. ISBN 978-0-7432-5221-8.
- ^ Thomas, Evan (2006). Sea of Thunder. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. hlm. 322. ISBN 978-0-7432-5221-8.
- ^ Woodward, C. Vann (1947). The Battle for Leyte Gulf. New York: Macmillan.
- ^ "The Largest Naval Battles in Military History: A Closer Look at the Largest and Most Influential Naval Battles in World History". Military History. Norwich University. Diakses tanggal 7 Maret 2015.
- ^ "Battle of Leyte Gulf". World War 2 Facts. Diakses tanggal 17 Januari 2014.
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Daftar pustaka
- 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 (1994). The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23–26 October 1944. Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-243-9.
- D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X.
- Drea, Edward J. (1998). "Leyte: Unanswered Questions". In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1708-0.
- Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
- Field, James A. (1947). The Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho operation. Princeton University Press. ASIN B0006AR6LA.
- Friedman, Kenneth (2001). Afternoon of the Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-756-7.
- Fuller, J.F.C. (1956). The Decisive Battles of the Western World – Volume III. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. ISBN 1-135-31790-9.
- Hornfischer, James D. (2004). The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Bantam. ISBN 0-553-80257-7.
- Hoyt, Edwin P. (2003). The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Lyons Press. ISBN 1-58574-643-6.
- Lacroix, Eric; Linton Wells (1997). Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-311-3.
- Morison, Samuel Eliot (2004) [1956]. Leyte, June 1944 – January 1945, vol. 12 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.: University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition. ISBN 0-252-07063-1.
- Nishida, Hiroshi (2002). "Imperial Japanese Navy". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2012-11-20. Diakses tanggal 2015-12-06.
- Potter, E. B. (2005). Admiral Arleigh Burke. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-692-5.
- Potter, E. B. (2003). Bull Halsey. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-691-7.
- Sauer, Howard (1999). The Last Big-Gun Naval Battle: The Battle of Surigao Strait. Glencannon Press. ISBN 1-889901-08-3.
- Stewart, Adrian (1979). The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Hale. ISBN 0-7091-7544-2.
- Thomas, Evan (2006). Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941–1945. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-5221-7.
- Vego, Milan N. (2006). Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied And Japanese Plans, Preparations, And Execution. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-885-2.
- Willmott, H. P. (2005). The Battle Of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34528-6.
- Woodward, C. Vann (2007) [1947]. The Battle for Leyte Gulf. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 1-60239-194-7.
Media audio/visual
- Lost Evidence of the Pacific: The Battle of Leyte Gulf. History Channel TV
- Dogfights: Death of the Japanese Navy. History Channel. TV
- Battle 360: Battle of Leyte Gulf. History Channel. TV
- Animated History of The Battle of Leyte Gulf Diarsipkan 2009-01-12 di Wayback Machine.
- Victory At Sea: The Battle For Leyte Gulf, (1952). Episode 19 from a 26-episode film series about naval combat during World War II.
Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- United States Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific) – Interrogations of Japanese Officials
- Battle Experience: Battle for Leyte Gulf [Cominch Secret Information Bulletin No. 22]
- Task Force 34 Action Report: 6 October 1944 – 3 November 1944 (VAdm Lee)
- Task Force 77 Action Report: Battle of Leyte Gulf (VAdm Kinkaid)
- Orders of battle: Sibuyan Sea, Surigao Strait, Cape Engaño, Samar.
- 'Glorious Death: The Battle of Leyte Gulf' by Tim Lanzendörfer
- The Battle Off Samar — Taffy III at Leyte Gulf by Robert Jon Cox
- Return to the Philippines: public domain documents from ibiblio.org
- The Battle for Leyte Gulf Revisited by Irwin J. Kappes
- Japan's TA-Operation: A Blueprint for Disaster by Irwin J. Kappes
- 'Loss of the USS Princeton (CVL-23), 24 October 1944' – United States' Naval Historical Center
- "Pacific War Maps | Nihon Kaigun". combinedfleet.com. Diakses tanggal 11 July 2014.
- USS Bergall vs IJN Myoko: A Tale of Two Cripples by A.P. Tully
- Oral history interview with Edward Gilbert, a member of the Army Boat Regiment during the Battle of Leyte Gulf from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University