Downstairs, VB mentioned her father served on the USS White Plains at Leyte Gulf - the Battle off Samar as a part of Taffy 3. If you don’t know what that means, let me point you here:

Death of the Japanese Navy - Ep 7 - Season 1 - Dogfights

from when the History Channel still showed history.

I’m back to it to finish watching it again. That was the US Navy’s single finest moment in 200 years of glory.