Assigned to picket duty during landings at Ormoc Bay on Leyte’s west coast, on the morning of 7 December 1944, she was patrolling between Leyte and Ponson Island when about twelve Japanese bombers attacked. Working up to 34 knots, Mahan shot down three, but three others dove into More @Wikipedia
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