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(More customer reviews)This is a History Channel show about the semi-famous Battle of Leyte Gulf. Called the largest naval engagement in history, the show is specifically about the role played by 'Taffy 3', a group made up of six small escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts. This force, with the aid of aircraft from Taffy 1 and 2, went toe to toe with a vastly superior Japanese force of battleships, cruisers and destroyers...and won.
The story itself is a good one and one worth retelling and covered pretty well in 46 minutes. It has some input from some of the survivors and the author of the book by the same name. However, it's obvious that the budget for this show was tight. The graphics are just pictures with fire, for example, superimposed over it to demonstrate a ship getting hit and burning. Pretty low by the standards for THC these days. Episode 8 of season 1 of Dogfights uses 3d graphics and looks much better. As does episode 9 of Battle 360, though that show doesn't devote much time to the Taffy 3 part of the battle.
This disc is made and distributed for THC by some company that makes discs for anybody, hence the plain black box. But it's a good copy and doesn't sport the H bug in the corner, which is nice. There are no extras of course.
You don't really need this show unless you want it for a collection like I did. And it's $25, the standard price for single episodes since the 90s but one I've always concidered too expensive. The show is good enough but for a few bucks more you can get the whole season 1 of Dogfights (11 episodes) or Battle 360 (10 episodes).
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