"The Silent Service and the Turkey Shoot" Topic
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Tango01 | 17 Jan 2018 3:12 p.m. PST |
"They called it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. American pilots flying from fifteen carriers met Japanese pilots from nine carriers and four islands in the waters just off of Saipan. The resulting battle was the greatest carrier battle of World War II. At the end of the fighting Japan had lost 80% of its employed aircraft, three carriers, and two oilers, and had failed to achieve any of its objectives. The U.S. carrier pilots were lauded and toasted for their victory, and are credited for effectively ending the Japanese carrier threat. In the seventy years since the Battle of the Philippine Sea took place it has been known as the pinnacle moment for Navy Aviation. The truth is far more complicated. While the Navy air arm did account for many of the relatively cheap Japanese planes from the carrier force, and their inexperienced, it wasn't them that delt the harshest blows in the Marianas. Instead, it was the U.S. submarine fleet that did the lion's share of destroying the virtually irreplaceable ships of the Japanese carrier fleet…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Shagnasty | 18 Jan 2018 9:43 a.m. PST |
Credit to where it is due. I had the honor of touring the "Cavalla" after she became a memorial in Galveston, Texas. |
Tango01 | 18 Jan 2018 10:51 a.m. PST |
Good for you my friend!. Amicalement Armand |
Murvihill | 18 Jan 2018 10:52 a.m. PST |
Congrats, they cacked two carriers. but since the Japanese were having a hard time putting planes on the carriers they still had it would have only increased Halsey's score at Leyte Gulf if the two additional carriers hadn't been sunk during Philippine Sea. |
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