Dateline: World War II - Season 1 Episode 41 Patton's Third Army
5.0020 minutes
Patton's Third Army becomes operational and leads breakout from the Normandy hedge row fields turning American armor loose across France. In the Pacific the Battle of the Philippine Sea becomes knows as the Marianas Turkey Shoot as U.S. naval aviators shoot down over 600 Japanese aircraft virtually ending the Japanese capability to mount carrier borne air strikes for the balance of the war.