Why Japanese Admirals Couldn’t Believe America Built 15 Essex Carriers in 90 Days
WW2 Stories ArchiveThis is the story of the day the Imperial Japanese Navy realized it had lost the war — not in 1945, but on 19 June 1944 in the Philippine Sea, when a scout pilot counted fifteen American carriers in a single formation and Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa understood that Yamamoto’s warning had come true.