Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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Escort Carrier USS Gambier Bay, Destroyer Escort USS Raymond, and another Destroyer Escort, elements of Taffy 3, laying smoke before engaging the Japanese Center Force in the Battle Off Samar, Oct 25, 1944.	Ise and Shimotsuki during Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 Oct 1944; photo taken from a TBF Avenger aircraft of VT-51 with damaged wing

Ise firing during Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 Oct 1944	Japanese special attack A6M5 Model 52 Zero fighter diving on USS White Plains, 25 Oct 1944

Pilots of VT-51 returned to San Jacinto after attacking the Japanese carrier force, Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 Oct 1944	Port bow view of large cruiser Guam, Philadelphia Naval Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 25 Oct 1944

PT-321, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), picking up Japanese survivors in Surigao Strait, Philippines, 25 Oct 1944	San Jacinto's VT-51 Avenger aircraft being armed with a Mark XIII torpedo for Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 Oct 1944

SB2C Helldivers of Bombing Squadron VB-19 on the deck of USS Lexington (Essex-class) being fitted with drop tanks for an extended mission to search for the fleeing Japanese fleet, 25 Oct 1944.	Tail section of a D4Y Suisei ‘Judy’ dive bomber that landed on the flight deck of Escort Carrier USS Kitkun Bay after being exploded in flight by intense anti-aircraft fire during the Battle off Samar, 25 Oct 1944

USS Kitkun Bay prepared to launch FM-2 Wildcat fighters during Battle off Samar, 25 Oct 1944; note shell splashes in background	USS St. Lo exploding after hit Yukio Seki's special attack, off the southeastern coast of Samar, Philippines, 25 Oct 1944

Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa transferring his flag from damaged carrier Zuikaku to light cruiser Oyodo, at 1100 hours on 25 Oct 1944	Yamato during the Battle off Samar, 25 Oct 1944

Yamato in action off Samar, 25 Oct 1944	Zuikaku and an Akizuki-class DD underway during Battle off Engano, 25 Oct 1944

Zuikaku and Zuiho under attack during Battle of Cape Engano, 25 Oct 1944	Zuikaku at 1400 hrs 25 Oct 1944, listing but underway

Zuikaku dead in the water, 25 Oct 1944; BB Ise at right of photo	Zuikaku settling as she sinks, 25 Oct 1944; profile of an Avenger is seen flying overhead