Quotes About Taffy 3

By any measure the mathematics of the engagement were preposterously against them. The Yamato displaced nearly seventy thousand tons. She alone matched almost exactly in weight all thirteen ships of Taffy 3. Each of her three main gun turrets weighed more than an entire Fletcher-class destroyer.

But he and his compatriots would soon assess the cost of Taffy 3's audacious resistance, the effectiveness of which no tactician could ever have foreseen and no statistician could have measured.