"The Battle of the Philippine Sea 19–20 June 1944" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Jan 2020 8:57 p.m. PST |
"Following the build-up of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier forces in the central Pacific, the American drive into the strategic Marshall Islands chain, and the foreseeable U.S. victory on Saipan (15 June–9 July), the Japanese naval leadership were convinced that the moment for a decisive large-scale fleet action had come. Previous attempts to win a climactic battle with the U.S. Navy—Coral Sea, Midway, and the sum of the sea battles in the Solomons—had either failed or had come short of a war-changing victory. The U.S. Navy's Task Force 58 (Fast Carrier Task Force) clashed with the Japanese navy's Carrier Division 3 on 19 and 20 June in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in a series of engagements mainly fought out in the air, over waters several hundred miles west of Saipan. By the evening of 20 June, Task Force 58's aircraft had succeeded in breaking the back of Japanese naval aviation and the Japanese Combined Fleet's carrier forces…"
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ScottWashburn  | 28 Jan 2020 5:18 a.m. PST |
I recently read "The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945" by James Hornfischer. Although it covers more than the battle of the Philippine Sea, it does have an excellent account of the battle. |
| Tango01 | 28 Jan 2020 11:11 a.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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