Philippine Sea
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Oct 6, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
The replacements were earnest and brave, and they were going to die.
Tail DraggerHOST
By the time June nineteenth, nineteen forty-four arrived, Task Force Fifty-Eight under Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher had fifteen carriers, seven battleships, and hundreds of Hellcats positioned in the Philippine Sea.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Japanese launched their strike, wave after wave of aircraft.
Tail DraggerHOST
Approximately three hundred and seventy aircraft launched against the American fleet.
Colin FredericksonHOST
For whips, that remark reflected a broader concern about whether smaller nations will have their sovereignty and international rights respected.
Colin FredericksonHOST
Palau has also protested what it says are Chinese vessel incursions into its exclusive economic zone, including around the Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the Philippine Sea.
Colin FredericksonHOST
Wipps argues that Palau cannot simply remain neutral and hope larger powers ignore it.
Colin FredericksonHOST
Instead, he says the country needs partners that share its commitment to democracy, the rule of law, and national sovereignty.
Tail DraggerHOST
The quality of Japanese naval aviation was falling.
Tail DraggerHOST
In June of 1944, these two trends converged over the Philippine Sea.
Tail DraggerHOST
The American invasion of the Marianas, Operation Forager, was exactly the kind of threat the Japanese could not absorb.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Marianas put American B-29 superfortresses within bombing range of the home islands.
Tail DraggerHOST
Most of them Hellcats, but paper numbers do not account for the radar.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Americans had developed a fighter direction system that could track incoming raids from over 200 miles out and vector intercepts with precision.
Tail DraggerHOST
Japanese pilots crossing the Philippine Sea on June 19, 1944, had no idea that Hellcat pilots were already climbing to altitude to meet them, guided by controllers who knew exactly how many were coming and exactly where they were heading.
Tail DraggerHOST
The first Japanese strike wave launched around 8.30 in the morning.
LernerHOST
It really is.
LernerHOST
It's the dead of night in the Philippine Sea.
LernerHOST
The air isn't just hot.
LernerHOST
I mean, it is thick, humid, and just suffocating.
Tail DraggerHOST
June 19, 1944.
Tail DraggerHOST
Somewhere over the Philippine Sea, a young ensign is strapped into the cockpit of a brand-new Grumman fighter at 20,000 feet, and he can see them coming.
Tail DraggerHOST
Not one or two.
Tail DraggerHOST
Not a flight of four.
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Tail DraggerHOST
McCampbell would go on to become the Navy's all-time top ace with 34 confirmed victories.
Tail DraggerHOST
He received the Medal of Honor.
Tail DraggerHOST
He later said that, in many of those engagements over the Philippine Sea, he was rarely in serious danger, not because the Japanese weren't trying, but because the Hellcat gave him every advantage that mattered.
Tail DraggerHOST
Other pilots were having similar days across the fleet.
Tail DraggerHOST
The airplane was in every major naval engagement of the early Pacific War.
Tail DraggerHOST
Coral Sea, Midway, the Solomon's Campaign, Santa Cruz, the Philippine Sea.
Tail DraggerHOST
6,000 SBDs were built before production ended in 1944.
Tail DraggerHOST
They flew for the Navy, the Marine Corps, and even the Army Air Forces, who operated a version called the A-24 Banshee.
DaleHOST
By May 23rd, translators at the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section had rendered the Z-Plan into English, working all day and all night.
DaleHOST
Admiral Nimitz's staff produced their own translation and copies went out to the commanders of the 5th Fleet, Spruance and Mitcher, before the Battle of the Philippine Sea on June 19th and 20th, 1944.
DaleHOST
Meanwhile, on the Japanese side, Koga's loss was kept quiet for weeks, and Admiral Toyoda Soemo formally took over the combined fleet on May 3rd, and the Japanese kept searching Sheshbo for those documents for weeks afterwards,
ChristophHOST
as if they could still get them back.
DaleHOST
Koga's death in a storm.
DaleHOST
The Z-Plan in American hands.
DaleHOST
I want to be careful here because historians argue about how much of the capture plan actually changed the Philippine Sea.
DaleHOST
The Japanese had reversed their thinking by June, and Spruance made his own cautious choices for his own reasons.
Tail DraggerHOST
It never launched a torpedo in anger.
Tail DraggerHOST
But the pilot who got his carrier qualification in that airplane may well have been at Philippine Sea or Leyte Gulf or Okinawa six months later, flying a different Avenger off the deck of a fleet carrier.
Tail DraggerHOST
The EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh has Lake Michigan aircraft as well.
Tail DraggerHOST
If you've never been to Oshkosh outside of AirVenture Week, go.
DylanGUEST
Later in this movie, we get to a base in the ocean, which is in the remnants of one of the colonies.
DylanGUEST
But they're still in the Philippine Sea, I think.
DylanGUEST
I mean, the geography is not... super focused on so i mean the legit so there's like fully intact or not full you know there's like substantially intact pieces of wreckage like thousands of miles away from sydney so i mean you know you you will make yourself insane trying to think about like it's like one of those things like if you try to map out where the white base goes in first gundam like it's just like they were not thinking about it like that it's fine yeah you know Yaz made an entire manga trying to fix this problem and it's like it's not a real problem but it is funny it is you can't make yourself crazy trying to think about it but yeah who knows about Operation British it's like you know they blew up a chunk of Australia it killed a lot of people a bunch of other people died in other stuff question mark you know
Stephen HeroHOST
Maybe Yaz will clean this up 10 years from now as like a 95-year-old and he'll make everyone's least favorite version of Mosley Gunham Hathaway.
Jonathan ParshallGUEST
Out in the open.
Chris ParryGUEST
And the fact that Spruance has this sixth sense, and he does it again later at the Philippine Sea.
Jonathan ParshallGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Chris ParryGUEST
He says, "I'm not doing this i- in case we get bushwhacked." And he's absolutely right, and this is where Spruance's genius really shows.
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