The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot missions

[Shadow Wolf 07]

I am currently updating my USS Essex CV-9 Campaign and I've come to June 44 and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. This will take several missions to complete - covering 2 days. In my research I found these:

and

, which were very informative and well done. Enjoy!

Screen shots will be posted soon...

Cheers:
Shadow Wolf 07

 

[Hiede]

My son is also working the Marianas for his Enterprise 44 campaign.So it will be different from the Enterprise perspective.

BTW you can get a book on the Essex and Saratoga for about $25 and there a few PDFs on line for free.Just mentioning it to be helpful.I bought him the book The Big E and later found the PDF which is the same except no pics.

Hiede

 

[highpockets]

I have several Osprey publications on the great WWII naval battles including the Philippine sea.

 

[Hiede]

I have several Osprey publications on the great WWII naval battles including the Philippine sea.

Highpockets

Talon had all that plus much more.My is going by The Big E book since this for it's campaign.He said it goes into get detail on the Marianas Campaign and her part in it.

Talon also did a Marianas Campaign years ago which used all the carriers that were there.He also did both sides of it,at least there missions from the Japanese side on his old computer.

Hiede

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Operation-wise, here are two maps of the operation that I copied from this interesting video:

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[skylane]

I have this very interesting book on the topic.



It describes the action and background of both sides i great detail. A very good read!