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HMAS Australia after her return from the allied invasion of the Philippine Islands
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Remembering the largest naval battle of the Second World War

In October 1944, a large combined United States and Allied fleet, also including Royal Australian Navy vessels, launched an assault to begin liberating the Philippines from Japanese occupation.

The fleet, in excess of 600 vessels, was about to prevail in the largest naval battle of the Second World War, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

From Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs