CAPT Buchanan recorded in Reports of Proceedings of HMAS ARUNTA, (destroyer):- ‘HMAS ARUNTA contributed her share to the heavy concentration of fire that destroyed an enemy aircraft soon after ABNER REID, (US destroyer), was hit. For the remainder of our stay in Leyte Gulf no day passed without several Bogies and Bandits, and the consequent air alerts’. USS ABNER REID was hit by a Japanese kamikaze plane on 1 November and rolled over and sank within a few minutes.