![]() naval commanders successfully applied lessons learned from interwar war gaming to victorious carrier operations in World War II. NHHC publication: Winning a Future War-War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific War, by Norman Friedman. Navy Vessels in the Battle of the Philippine Sea and Marianas Operational Area Nasuti Imageryīattle of the Philippine Sea Photo Gallery Other Resources "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" by NHHC historian Guy J. ![]() The following essay provides a detailed account of the Battle of the Philippine Sea and analyzes its great significance in determining the further course of the war in the Pacific: A fortress island, Corregidor commanded access to Manila Bay and housed a multitude of batteries. 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. The Battle of Corregidor was fought May 5-6, 1942, during World War II (1939-1945) and was the last major engagement of the Japanese conquest of the Philippines. 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. 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. Previous attempts to win a climactic battle with the 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. ![]() Navy’s fast carrier forces in the central Pacific, the American drive into the strategic Marshall Islands chain, and the foreseeable U.S. ![]()
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