World-changing1944

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Leyte Gulf · Surigao Strait · Samar

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Largest naval battle in history.

Belligerents3

United States
Empire of Japan
Australia

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (peak, 1942)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1944 and opens this record.

Cite as: Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-leyte-gulf · Sources & methodology