How One Controller's "CALM" Radar Trap Destroyed 300 Japanese Planes at Philippine Sea

How One Controller's "CALM" Radar Trap Destroyed 300 Japanese Planes at Philippine Sea

Inside TF 58’s dim CICs on June 19, 1944, a calm controller turns radar into geometry, vectoring barrier CAP to a head-on trap that shatters Ozawa’s raids, about 300 Japanese aircraft lost. South Dakota is hit; Guam becomes a killing ground. Submarines sink Taihō and Shōkaku. On June 20, Hiyō falls to a dusk strike and Mitscher lights the fleet.

Sources:
Barrett Tillman — Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot (2005)
Samuel Eliot Morison — History of U.S. Naval Operations in WWII, Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas (1953)
ONI/USN — Combat Narrative: The Battle of the Philippine Sea (1944; NHHC reprint)
PACFLT/TF 58 — Action Reports & CinCPac-CinCPoA Communiqués, June 1944 (NHHC archives)
USS Cavalla (SS-244) & USS Albacore (SS-218) — War Patrol Reports, June 1944
NHHC — Battle of the Philippine Sea overview; Alex Vraciu biography; ship damage/action reports
Mark Stille — Philippine Sea 1944: The Last Great Carrier Battle (Osprey, 2014)
Ralph B. Baldwin — The Deadly Fuze (1980)
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