28/08/2026
The Ship Built to Hunt U-Boats Faces the Yamato!
The USS Samuel B. Roberts was built as a small destroyer es**rt to hunt submarines and protect Allied convoys. But on October 25, 1944, during the Battle off Samar, this lightly armed es**rt ship found itself facing something it was never designed to fight—the mighty Japanese battleship Yamato.
Outgunned and heavily outmatched, the Samuel B. Roberts and her crew charged into battle alongside a handful of other American ships, attacking the Japanese Center Force with incredible courage.
This is the story of one of the most extraordinary David-versus-Goliath moments of World War II—a tiny es**rt ship that refused to retreat when confronted by the largest battleship ever built.
USS Samuel B. Roberts vs. Yamato — October 25, 1944.
