<Li> In a response to the near destruction of Taffy 3 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the padding in Admiral Nimitz's inquiry about Halsey's Battleship Task Force, "Where is TF 34?" was "The world wonders ." Some speculate that it is a reference to the poem and a comment on the heroic but near suicidal charge of the three destroyers, four destroyer escorts, and lightly armed bombers and fighters of Taffy 3 against the Japanese Centre Force, made up of battleships, including the Yamato, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and 11 destroyers . </Li> <Li> The poem inspired the Iron Maiden song "The Trooper" (1983). </Li> <Li> The character Dr. Reed Akley on Manhattan recites three lines of the poem, in Episode 12 . </Li> <Li> The TV show Top Gear referenced the poem and its origins in series 21, episode 3, during a trip through Ukraine . When stopping at a spot near the battlefield, the team commented on the event and Richard Hammond quoted Tennyson's poem . </Li>

Who said ours is not to reason why ours is but to do or die