Battle of Leyte Gulf - Complete Animated Documentary

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Due to popular request, this is a supercut episode of our entire Leyte Gulf series as one complete animated documentary

2 hours? What a good time to be alive!

Can I ask you all a favour? If you enjoy this documentary, could you please hit the like button and/or leave a comment, it helps us massively. Appreciate you all!

All the epicness in one video. Planes beating battleships, the final crossing of the T by the ghosts of Pearl Harbor, the greatest underdog fight in the history of the US Navy and finally Halsey chasing shiny objects. This video has it all.

My great uncle was at the battle off Samar. He was a part of Taffy 1, among the handful of Hellcats that were able to appear there. They started sending some planes over to support Taffy 3 but then Taffy 1 came under air attack, so no more planes were sent. He received the silver star for his actions in that battle, coordinating an attack with torpedo bombers against a Japanese battleship (his words, “it was the biggest ship I’d ever seen”) and using himself as a distraction to the ship’s AA fire, flying as close as he could to it and strafing it to draw their fire away from the torpedo bombers as they made their run.

Commander Evans set the bar for gallantry.

My sister-in-law's father, Héctor Espinoza Galván, was a pilot in the Aztec Eagles from Mexico who was lost in the battle for the Philippines. Many Americans don't know of Mexico's contribution during WWII.

My grandfather fought on the Island of Leyte during this operation. Thanks so much for making this!

Super appreciate having all of the Battle for Leyte episodes eps compressed into one for easier re-watching. Saving this to my phone! Thanks again for your years of quality work.

As a little kid, I read about this epic battle in books, only dreamed of seeing the visual animations of it. With all its epicness and details only an imagination in my head. So happy to see you made a dream come into reality. And even combined every video of them together in an absolutely epic 2 hour marathon one. Thank you so much for it. And please continue to do your great work dear sir! Best regards from Germany

You made a 2 hour long Leyte video? Truly we are unworthy of such generosity

How was 2 hours of bird's eye view naval battle so entertaining.? The world wonders.

I turned 12 in the early 80's, that's around the age where a lot of boys quietly start obsessing on specific things. It's a shame all of this amazing content on ww2 didn't find me when I was susceptible.

"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

My grandfather, Ensign Paul Oscar Avery, was the torpedo officer on the destroyer USS Melvin and i remember him talking with my dad and uncles about sinking of the Fuso when i was a kid. This was a very intersting watch, thank you!

Thank you, I always frind the scale of operations in the Pacific a bit too much for my old brain to juggle with comfort. Your excellent animated uploads give me ease of understanding coupled with proper information and enjoyment. Wonderful work.

For some reason, even though I'm familiar with this battle alongside many others, I was moved to tears many different times during this engagement. The gallantry displayed by Taffy 3 is of the highest order. I could not help but be utterly devastated that this occurred, but so proud of them.

Man.. the Yamato and Musashi were tough ole girls. Can't help but admire the fight those sailors and ships put up.

What the crew of the Yukikaze did at the end was just cherry on top. The Johnston is such a legend.