[ARC5] Other Comm Plans

[gordon white]

A little ironic that Gambier Bay, CVE-73's call sign was "catnip," as 
that jeep carrier was essentiall;y bait for Kurita's Central Force in 
the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944. She was one of two USN ships (the 
other was destroyer Hoel,) as the "little boys" held off  a Japanese 
task force of battleships and heavy cruisers bearing down on the Leyte 
invasion force.
     Adm Samuel Eliot Morison in fact described the preliminaries to the 
Leyte landings as "clipping the cat's whiskers."

  - Gordon Eliot White