Tag: Carrier Battle

The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot: over the Philippine Sea

August 8, 2020 Dan Hewitson

The Battle of the Philippine Sea was a naval battle that took place during the Marianas Island Hopping Campaign of 1944. During the course of the war, there were five major “carrier-versus-carrier” engagements, this being the last of them. Although the Japanese fleet was not destroyed, the balance of naval power in the region swung…