USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413)
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Please help! Do you have photographs of shipmates? letters written home? copies of the Gizmos? We can use these and many other pieces of memorabilia to enrich this website. Please contact Dick Rohde and let him know so that we can arrange to make what you have available to a wider interested audience. All material will be returned to the owner!

Photographs & Paintings

• "Trim but deadly" relief plaque honoring Destroyer Escorts, at Naval Memorial in Washington, D.C.

• Plaque at the Nimitz Musuem, Fredericksburg, Texas.

• US Navy photograph of the Sammy B at sea. And here's another one.
• The USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413) in the Philippine Sea, mid-October 1944. Photo taken from its sister ship the USS Wann (DE-412) as the two ships were maneuvering to exchange guard mail.  (source: Little Wolf at Leyte)
• No Higher Honor, an original work of art painted by DE 413 shipmate Don Young in 1998, commemorates the Sammy B (DE 413), the second (DD 823) and third USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58), as well as the USS Copeland, and the USS Carr. The painting was presented to the Commanding Officer of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) during the May 1998 reunion of the Survivors' Association in Norfolk. The painting and its inspiration were described in the May 31, 1998, edition of the Easton (Md.) Star Democrat.
  
• The Burden and Loneliness of Command, another original piece by Don Young, of Capt. Copeland at his gyro repeater.
• A painting dedicated to the memory of all Gunners and Gun Crew members available from the Association of Gunners Mates. The painting shows Paul Henry Carr attempting to load the "star shell" he was most probably handling immediately before his death.
• Radio shack of the USS O'Flaherty (DE-340).

• Rendition of the sinking USS Samuel B. Roberts (artist unknown)

• Taffy 3 memorial in San Diego

• Memorial to men lost in Battle off Samar at Fort Rosencrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California

Books & Magazine Articles

• Richard W. Bates, Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 1944 (Washington, D.C.: Gov't Printing Office, 1953)
• David Brown, Warship Losses of World War II (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1990)
• M. Hamlin Cannon, United States Army in World War II: War in the Pacific: Leyte: The Return to the Philippines (Washington D.C.: Gov't Printing Office, 1954)
• Rear Admiral Robert W. Copeland (USNR) (with Jack E. O'Neill), The Spirit of the Sammy-B (unpublished manuscript)
• Robert Jon Cox, The Battle Off Samar-Taffy III at Leyte Gulf
• Thomas J. Cutler, The Battle of Leyte Gulf 23-26 October 1944 (New York: Harper Collins, 1994)
• Paul Dull, Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945 (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1978)
• Stanley L. Falk, Decision at Leyte (Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1989)
• Bruce H. Franklin, The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts (Annapolis, Md : Naval Institute Press, 1999.)
• J. Henry Doscher, Jr., Little Wolf at Leyte (Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1996)
• James A Field, Jr., Japanese at Leyte Gulf: The Sho Operation (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1947)
• Jim Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: A book by Jim Hornfischer on the Battle off Samar, which has gotten absolutely rave reviews. For instance, Publishers Weekly says "One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers, creating a microcosm of the war's American Navy destroyers. Hornfischer, a writer and literary agent in Austin, Tex., covers the battle off Samar, the Philippines, in October 1944, in which a force of American escort carriers and destroyers fought off a Japanese force many times its strength..." Learn more about this outstanding book here!
• Edwin P. Hoyt, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the death knell of the Japanese Fleet (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1972)
• Edwin P. Hoyt, MacArthur's Navy: Seventh Fleet and Battle for the Philippines (New York: Orion, 1989)
• Edwin P. Hoyt, The Men of the Gambier Bay (Middlebury, Vt.: P.S. Eriksson, 1979)
• David M. Kennedy, "Victory At Sea," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, No. 3, March 1999
• Charles Lockwood and H. Anderson, Battles of the Philippine Sea (New York: Crowell, 1967)
• Samuel Eliot Morison, History of US Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XII - "Leyte" (Boston: Little Brown, 1962)
• J. Rohwer and G. Hummelchen, Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945 (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1992)
• G.C. Skipper, The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Chicago: Childrens Press, 1991)
• Carl Solberg, Decision and dissent: with Halsey at Leyte Gulf (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995)
• Russell Spurr, Glorious Way to Die: Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato (New York: Newmarket Press, 1981)
• Adrian Stewart, The Battle of Leyte Gulf (London: Hale, 1979)
• US Navy, United States Naval Chronology, World War II (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1955)
• C. Vann Woodward, Battle for Leyte Gulf (New York: Macmillan, 1947)
• John F. Wukovits, Devotion to Duty: A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995)
• For an excellent source of World War II materials, try Stone & Stone bookstore in England.

Videos

•  The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, 50 minute DVD produced in 2006 by the History Channel.
• Showdown at Leyte Gulf, Great 50-minute video produced by the History Channel in 1995. Available at www.historychannel.com.

Other

• William Rupp, display for Year 2000 National History Day Competition.

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