Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The aerial part of 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. [5]
Shattered – Tale of the Forgotten King: 2021 Redlock Studio Redlock Studio Shattered Horizon: 2009 Futuremark Games Studio: Futuremark Games Studio Shattered Union: 2005 PopTop Software: 2K Games: Shaun White Snowboarding: 2008 Ubisoft Montreal: Ubisoft: Sheep: 2000 Mind's Eye Productions Empire Interactive: Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf: 2001 ...
At the Cairo Conference in November 1943, the Combined Chiefs of Staff supported both MacArthur's offensive in the Southwest Pacific and King's in the Central Pacific, [20] adding the Marianas as an objective for the Central Pacific offensive and setting 1 October 1944 as the date for their invasion. [21] Map of Saipan showing the progress of ...
This page was last edited on 13 November 2003, at 06:08 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
VF-10 pilots on USS Enterprise during the Guadalcanal Campaign (2nd Commander of VF-10 William R. "Killer" Kane (8 claims) in front row on knee, 5th from right). VF-10 was established at NAS San Diego flying the Grumman F4F Wildcat. The first commanding officer was James H. Flatley fresh from the Battle of the Coral Sea.
In the resulting aircraft carrier Battle of the Philippine Sea (the so-called "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot") on 19–20 June, the Japanese naval forces were decisively defeated with heavy and irreplaceable losses to their carrier-borne and land-based aircraft. U.S. forces executed landings on Saipan in June 1944 and Guam and Tinian in July 1944 ...
King: King Capitalism II: 2001 Enlight: Ubisoft: Captain Quazar: 1996 Cyclone Studios, 3DO: 3DO Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions: 2020 Tamsoft: Bandai Namco Entertainment: Car Tycoon: 2003 Vectorcom Development: Fishtank Interactive: Caravel DROD: 2002 Caravel Games: Caravel Games Carmageddon: 1997 Stainless Software Ltd. SCi Games Ltd ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file