BTW SASless, not to be anal, but Liscome Bay was not part of Taffy 3. It was sunk (and Doris Miller killed) when it was torpedoed and exploded off Makin atoll in November 1943 (Gilbert Islands).
I knew something didn't line up if Miller died in 1943, since the Taffy 3 encounter happened after the initial US landings in the Philippines in 1944 (so I did a little research).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liscome_Bay