Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-13740085-20131026025034

My intent was for it to echo the Battle off Samar, where US destroyers, destroyer escorts, and light carriers beat away a much larger Japanese fleet, which included the Yamato. But you make good points: the Germans most likely wouldn't have so easily betrayed the British, but relations weren't exactly friendly. The triple alliance and triple entente were already formed by this time 