# Battle of the Philippine Sea

Detection plus direction · Philippine Sea & the Marianas.

Place · Fictionalized · Established

Stable ID: `margin-aces-location-7` · Revision 2 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Margin Aces](/field-guide/collections/margin-aces/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/margin-aces-location-7/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/margin-aces-location-7/record.json)

## At a glance

- Lagoon Scissors makes crossing routes its signature. The Lagoon Shears sweeps across the notebook rather than waiting for you to line up. The historical connection is organized fighter direction: seeing a threat and coordinating a response are separate jobs.

- Real campaign context · fictional sortie and illustrative map, not a geographic reconstruction.

## Appearances

- [Margin Aces encyclopedia](/gamelab/projects/marginaces/) (context: [Margin Aces](/field-guide/collections/margin-aces/))

## Dated changes

- 2026-10-30: Added from the named source to the Field Guide.

## Open questions

- What connected a radar contact to an interception? Reports, radio communications and trained fighter-direction personnel connected detection to combat air patrols. Radar did not make the decisions by itself.

## Sources

- [Margin Aces encyclopedia](/gamelab/projects/marginaces/)

## Reference library

### Source reference

![Battle of the Philippine Sea: the shared regional illustration assigned to this entry in the Margin Aces encyclopedia.](/field-guide/assets/references/margin-aces-location-7/01-notebook-landscape-v1-1200.webp)

Battle of the Philippine Sea: the shared regional illustration assigned to this entry in the Margin Aces encyclopedia.

[Download full-size image](/field-guide/assets/references/margin-aces-location-7/01-notebook-landscape-v1.webp) · [Original project image](/gamelab/marginaces.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `3828b74c0b14eea17ac6ff0a240132e50d7e78335231f1050f893dcd62e79cd2`

### Scene

![Battle of the Philippine Sea: the assigned Margin Aces campaign stage at 2 seconds.](/field-guide/assets/references/margin-aces-location-7/02-stage-2-v1-1200.webp)

Battle of the Philippine Sea: the assigned Margin Aces campaign stage at 2 seconds.

[Download full-size image](/field-guide/assets/references/margin-aces-location-7/02-stage-2-v1.webp) · [Actual game scene](/gamelab/marginaces.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `61e1de4b5866cc7e61efdb0d892512a792de0bca5dc28152813a1c111190d3b2`

### Scene

![Battle of the Philippine Sea: the assigned Margin Aces campaign stage at 12 seconds.](/field-guide/assets/references/margin-aces-location-7/03-stage-12-v1-1200.webp)

Battle of the Philippine Sea: the assigned Margin Aces campaign stage at 12 seconds.

[Download full-size image](/field-guide/assets/references/margin-aces-location-7/03-stage-12-v1.webp) · [Actual game scene](/gamelab/marginaces.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `4bb228263360f7e237d19e7907e8028d31ed222f4866e93e0ef15a40d75d6fcf`