Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Lou Reda ( born c. 1925 ) is a filmmaker , specializing in television documentaries , who has produced some 30 productions , as chairman of Lou Reda Productions , based in Easton , Pennsylvania . Reda 's production company has been called `` the largest producer of programs for the A&E and History Channel cable operations '' , accounting for some 10 % of the material shown on the two cable networks . Productions by Reda 's firm include The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors . Reda is from Phillipsburg , New Jersey . He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1942 during his freshman year at Phillipsburg High School and was initially assigned to duty as a deep sea diver ., The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on October 25, 1944. As the only major action in the larger battle where the Americans were largely unprepared against the opposing forces, it has been cited by historians as one of the greatest military mismatches in naval history., The nonfiction book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour is the first full narrative account of the Battle off Samar, which author James D. Hornfischer calls the greatest upset in the history of naval warfare. Published by Bantam Books in February 2004, the book won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature in 2004 from the Naval Order of the United States., Subject: lou reda, Relation: conflict, Options: (A) battle of leyte (B) battle of leyte gulf (C) battle off samar (D) philippines (E) world war ii
Output (English): world war ii