Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944 · Event
'Great Marianas Turkey Shoot'; US naval aviators destroy Japanese carrier air power.
On these timelines: Master, Japan, World War II, Southeast Asia
Around 1944
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)