Why American Radar Turned the Marianas Turkey Shoot Into a Slaughter

American radar turned the Marianas Turkey Shoot into a slaughter on 19 June 1944. The Japanese Mobile Fleet launched 373 aircraft from beyond the reach of any American strike, and about 130 came back. The Imperial Japanese Navy would never again fly a trained carrier air group into battle. This documentary covers the Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19 and 20 June 1944, through the machines that decided it: the SK and SM radars, the Combat Information Center and its fighter direction officers, the F6F Hellcat, and the VT proximity fuze. It follows Task Force 58 under Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher and Admiral Raymond Spruance against Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's nine-carrier Mobile Fleet and the A-Go plan, the destruction of Japanese land-based air power on Guam, the submarines Albacore and Cavalla sinking Taiho and Shokaku, and the 20 June evening strike and night recovery with every light on. The account is built from after-action reports, loss tables and squadron records, and it keeps the American cost in the ledger: 123 aircraft and the airmen who flew them. Where sources disagree, the video says so. Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War - new documentaries every few days. #WW2 #WorldWarII #PacificWar #USNavy #WWIIHistory #Hellcat #PhilippineSea #TaskForce58 #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2