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| rdfs:label | - Battle of the Philippine Sea
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| rdfs:comment | - The Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–20, 1944) was a decisive naval battle of World War II which effectively eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. It took place during the United States' amphibious invasion of the Mariana Islands during the Pacific War. The battle was the last of five major "carrier-versus-carrier" engagements between American and Japanese naval forces, and involved elements of the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet as well as ships and land-based aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy's Mobile Fleet and nearby island garrisons.
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| Strength | - 4
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- 13
- 24
- 27
- 28
- 43
- 58
- 79
- 300
- 450
- 956
- ~300 land-based aircraft
- ~450 carrier aircraft
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| Commander | - Marc A. Mitscher
- Raymond A. Spruance
- Kakuji Kakuta
- Jisaburō Ozawa
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| Casualties | - 1
- 2
- 3
- 6
- 123
- 550
- about 600 planes destroyed,
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| Result | - Decisive American victory
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| Conflict | - Battle of the Philippine Sea
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| abstract | - The Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–20, 1944) was a decisive naval battle of World War II which effectively eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. It took place during the United States' amphibious invasion of the Mariana Islands during the Pacific War. The battle was the last of five major "carrier-versus-carrier" engagements between American and Japanese naval forces, and involved elements of the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet as well as ships and land-based aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy's Mobile Fleet and nearby island garrisons. The battle was nicknamed the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot by American aviators for the severely disproportional loss ratio inflicted upon Japanese aircraft by American pilots and anti-aircraft gunners. During a debriefing after the first two air battles a pilot from the USS Lexington remarked "Why, hell, it was just like an old-time turkey shoot down home!" The lopsided outcome is generally attributed to American advantages in pilot and crew training and tactics, war technology, and ship and aircraft design, which the Japanese could not match over the course of the war. Though at the time the battle appeared to be a missed opportunity to destroy the Japanese fleet, the reality was that the Imperial Japanese Navy had lost the bulk of their carrier air strength and would never recover.
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