Clash of The Carriers The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by BarrettTillman Ebook, 368 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-4406-2399-8, ISBN: 1-4406-2399-6
"Yet the combined tonnage of American and Spanish ships at Manila Bay barely
matched the total of one Essex-class ... Carrier aviation represented the technical
and tactical millennium of war at sea. Philippine Sea was fought far from land,
which made it rare in naval history, as most fleet battles occurred within sight ...
Consequently, logistics factored hugely into carrier operations, as the ability to
sustain task forces far at ..."