036 SOUTH CHINA SEA 1945: Task Force 38's Bold Carrier Rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina

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Covers Operation Gratitude, where US Task Force 38 would spend the better part of two weeks marauding through the South China Sea launching air strikes into harbors in Indochina, the Chinese coast, and Formosa, while targeting shipping in the high-traffic nautical highway. By the time the Task Force exited the South China Sea, over 300,000 tons of enemy shipping and dozens of Japanese warships had been sunk. With follow-up air strikes against Japanese harbors and airfields in Formosa and the Ryukyu Islands, the success of the sweep was unprecedented.