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Tactics: Intercept incoming strikes with fighters and shipborne antiaircraft fire, guided by improved sensory and communications technology. Then execute long range airstrike against enemy carriers.
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Below this level, you've got the small unit tactics used by individual units, like shipboard allocation of anti-aircraft fire vs. given sorts of targets and the choice to use AAA to defend one's own ship vs. defending vital elements of the task force. Or, for the air battle, the ability to line up planes in your squadron/group to best achieve their objective while not getting damaged by the enemy.
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Logistics: Prepare full scale airstrip on Saipan with mass engineering as soon as enemy are cleared.
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Or, more broadly, get sufficient fuel, ammo, food, replacements, etc. to the task forces in time for them to launch their operations and keep the supplies coming at a sufficient level to sustain the desired tempo of operations. As a smaller objective, have sufficient personnel, equipment, and supplies available to quickly construct and supply multiple airfields on Saipan sufficient to allow USMC and USAAF units to conduct ongoing operations.
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Propaganda: Vulgarly nickname battle after an Appalachian blood sport.
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That was more the spontaneous reaction of USN fighter pilots who expected a hard fight and were amazed and delighted that the enemy mostly turned out to be hapless targets.
Propaganda is newsreels, training films, and newspaper articles which trumpet the victory, designed to make U.S. civilians buy War Bonds and to make green U.S. troops feel invincible.