Category: Pacific Strike ’85 (Task Force Mode)
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Steel, Fire, and Blood in the Sunda Strait: A ‘Sea Power’ Narrative
Steel, Fire, and Blood in the Sunda Strait By David Reynolds, TIME Correspondent, Darwin July 22, 1985 DARWIN — The men of Task Group 77.3 arrived in Australia’s Top End looking less like victors than survivors. Their ships bore the scars of a week-long gauntlet through one of the most contested waterways in the world,…
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Old Gamers Never Die: The East China Sea Boils Over in Pacific Strike ’85 (Sea Power Campaign)
TIME Magazine — July 8, 1985 Issue A Sudden Clash Off Okinawa: America’s First Victory in a Spreading Pacific War By Michael Harrington | TIME Pacific Bureau, Tokyo When the shooting finally stopped off Okinawa late on the night of June 26, the U.S. Navy had won its first clear victory in what is rapidly…