{"id":47754,"date":"2022-06-19T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47754"},"modified":"2025-06-19T00:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:32:53","slug":"the-battle-of-samar-a-formidable-video-that-recreates-the-last-great-naval-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/19\/the-battle-of-samar-a-formidable-video-that-recreates-the-last-great-naval-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Samar: a formidable video that recreates the last great naval combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great naval battles reached their zenith with the age of the great battleships in the First and Second World Wars.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/06\/mindanaos-p-40-ghost-plane-the-history-of-a-great-mystery-of-the-world-war-ii\/\">The P-40 ghost plane of Mindanao: the history of a great mystery of the WW2<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/25\/honors-to-fallen-enemies-when-war-is-not-at-odds-with-chivalry\/\">Honors to fallen enemies: when war is not at odds with chivalry<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The last of those battles took place in the Philippine Sea, east of the Island of Samar, on October 25, 1944<\/strong>, and in it 13 ships and some 400 embarked planes of the United States Navy fought against 23 ships and 30 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52158418185_4e7ebb3c36_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The action caught the Americans off guard<\/strong>, who despite their numerical disadvantage in terms of ships, had in their favor the fact that they had six escort aircraft carriers (the Taffy 3 group). <strong>On the Japanese side, her main advantage was the \"Yamato\", the largest battleship in history<\/strong>, with 263 meters in length and 71,111 tons of displacement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52158418075_7ba7d8036a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Battle of Samar, which ended in an American victory, was the penultimate and main episode of the Battle of Leyte Gulf<\/strong>, which was the largest naval battle in history. The battle of Samar was also <strong>the last great naval battle of the Second World War and also the last in history<\/strong>, since that war marked the twilight of the great battleships and artillery-based naval combat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52158162129_6e89b90e62_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The images you have just seen belong to a formidable video published yesterday by the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/Yarnhub\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yarnhub<\/a>, which always publishes excellent content on military history recreated on a computer. This new video is about the Battle of Samar and <strong>focuses on a US Navy destroyer escort, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)<\/strong>, captained by Robert W. Copeland:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pPXordKnF40\" title=\"Batalla cerca de la isla de Samar\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The USS Samuel B. Roberts was a ship with a short-lived history:<\/strong> not a year passed from its laying down on December 6, 1943, until its sinking in that battle. Despite this, she earned a Battle Star and a Presidential Citation for the \"extraordinary heroism\" her crew displayed. <strong>Today her remains rest at the bottom of the Philippine Sea along with 90 of her crew members. Rest in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great naval battles reached their zenith with the age of the great battleships in the First and Second World Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11549],"tags":[16858,16859,15787,12880,16856,11856,16854,16850,10431,319,16853,10389,16857],"class_list":["post-47754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-history","tag-battle-of-leyte-gulf","tag-battle-of-samar","tag-imperial-japanese-navy","tag-japan","tag-philippine-sea","tag-philippines","tag-robert-w-copeland","tag-taffy-3","tag-united-states","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-samuel-b-roberts-de-413","tag-world-war-ii","tag-yamato-battleship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}