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For what it's worth, The War Below has a couple chapters on the Battle of Leyte Gulf, so we could have a "get both" moment using that book.
I don't know how you would turn a very finite event like the Battle off Samar into a miniseries.
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However, you might be able to do it if covering the entire Battle of Leyte Gulf. However, I'm not sure that it could be done well. Would probably end up seeming cartoonish with all of the CGI. Using good quality models of sufficient size, plus real sets and scenes filmed on existing museum ships that are close enough to WWII configuration, and maybe even the occasional vessel purpose-made for the movie (like what was done with The Sand Pebbles), augmented by CGI, would look so much better, but would also be difficult and very expensive, I'd imagine.
A little easier to do this way, and definitely well-suited to a Band of Brothers sort of approach, would be to do a mini-series on the SMS Emden. Absolutely awesome story. Because it's not about Americans, I wonder what the market would be for it, though. Probably too low. But I'd love to see something like that someday.
Another good one would be about the defense of Manila Bay against the Japanese, or, if the issues with big naval productions could be overcome, one about the death of the Asiatic Fleet, including the U.S.S. Houston.