On September 15, 1944, the crew of USS Guavina found themselves staring down the kind of target submariners rarely got a shot at. Anchored tight in Sarangani Strait was a Japanese light cruiser, sitting still but bristling with guns and men. What followed was not a quick strike or a clean kill. It was an all-day brawl against the sea, the current, and the stubborn will of a ship that refused to die easily.

In this episode, we’ll take you inside the boat and through the log, minute by minute. You’ll hear how the men fought their way in, fired salvo after salvo, and watched fire and thunder erupt across the horizon. We’ll trace the fear, the sweat, the smell of burning oil, and the relief when the final explosion left nothing but smoke and ruin. This is the story of Guavina’s fiercest fight, and the day she broke a cruiser apart.