Why "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" Broke Japan — American Radar, CAP, and Logistics Ruled

Why "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" Broke Japan — American Radar, CAP, and Logistics Ruled

An immersive, fact-driven account of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, showing how U.S. radar, CIC fighter direction, and logistics crushed Japan’s A-Go offensive. From June 19’s radar-directed CAP over Guam, VT-fuzed flak, and the bomb on South Dakota, to Albacore and Cavalla sinking Taihō and Shōkaku, then Mitscher’s dusk strike on June 20 that sank Hiyō and the lights-on night recoveries. It examines Japanese fuel shortage and training collapse, contrasts aircraft and doctrine, and follows the aftermath—Saipan secured, Marianas airfields for B-29s, decoy carriers at Leyte, and kamikaze beginnings—arguing that integrated systems, not bravado, broke Japan’s carrier air arm.

Sources:
Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in WWII, Vol. 8 (1953).
CINCPAC/CINCPOA, The Campaigns of the Pacific War (1946).
TF58 action reports (June 1944) + USS Cavalla (SS-244) and USS Albacore (SS-218) war patrol reports (NHHC/HyperWar).
Senshi Sōsho (Japanese Official War History)
Barrett Tillman, Clash of the Carriers (2005).
Trent Hone, Learning War (2018).
Norman Friedman, Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery (2013).
Worrall R. Carter, Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil (1953).
Battle of the Philippine Sea, Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, Operation Forager, Operation A-Go, Task Force 58, Fifth Fleet, radar, CIC, fighter direction, CAP, SK radar, Mk 37 director, VT proximity fuze, AA fire, F6F Hellcat, A6M Zero, D4Y Judy, B6N Jill, Saipan, Marianas, Guam, Mitscher, Spruance, Ozawa, Taihō, Shōkaku, Hiyō, Zuikaku, Albacore, Cavalla, underway replenishment, oilers, Service Squadron 10, B-29 bases, night recoveries, world war2, world war ii, world war ll, world war two, world war 2 documentary, history facts, war stories, history documentary video, history documentary stories, world war 2 stories, world war 2 history, WW2 history, military history, battle stories, military, US Army

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