Task Group 77.4 runs into the outer edge of a typhoon carrying winds of over 60 knots. Engine room crews try to repair it, but the spare inserts were the wrong size. That same bearing, at a trial run in Boston, burned out and scored the shaft which had to be ground down. Fighting 60 knot gale winds and 48 degree rolls on just one screw. Request was denied until later that day when DE 404 departed for Kossol Roads in the Palau Group.
Repair ship provides new bearing inserts.
We got a good look at the pretty nurses. The battle of Leyte Gulf begins. Late that afternoon, the DE's 402 and 404 were ordered to San Bernardino Strait, the scene of the battle off Leyte, to search for survivors. Being short of fuel, they were ordered to Leyte's San Pedro harbor. With fueling nearing completion, the air raid alert sounded and Captain Marix decided to abort the fueling.