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Battle of Patria

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Battle of Patria
Part of Great War
SB2C-5 Helldivers roll into dives during exercise in 1947.jpg
DL5A dive bombers from MRS Enterprise conducting an attack, likely on the battleship Seorakasan
Date2-4 August 1951
Location
North of Patria Harbor, Territory of West Islands, Anagonia
Result Decisive alliance victory
Belligerents

 Meridon

AnagoniaFlag.jpg Anagonia
Kaskaida flag.png Kaskaida
Commanders and leaders

Meridon Alexander Walsman
Meridon Beau Lewis
KDSflag.jpg Kataoka Makoto
AnagoniaFlag.jpg Nathanial Cross

AnagoniaFlag.jpg Marcus Blackwell
Kaskaida flag.png Geum Changmin
Units involved

Meridon Marinan Fleet Task Group

  • Carrier Task Group 6
  • Carrier Task Group 8
  • Surface Task Group 11

AnagoniaFlag.jpg Battle Force Great Dragon Sea

  • Naval Battle Fleet Enterprise
  • Naval Battle Fleet Dreadnought
  • Carrier Battle Fleet Saratoga
  • Carrier Battle Fleet Liberty
  • Carrier Battle Fleet Pioneer
Kaskaida flag.png Striking Group Central
Strength

6 fleet carriers
10 escort carriers
10 battleships
2 large cruisers
24 heavy cruisers
31 light cruisers
~100 destroyers
Various smaller PT boats and submarines

About 1000 aircraft

2 fleet carriers
4 hybrid carrier-battleships
22 battleships
4 battlecruisers
15 heavy cruisers
~80 destroyers

~600 aircraft
Casualties and losses

4,000 including:
3 battleships
2 heavy cruisers
4 light cruisers

9 destroyers
40,000, including almost all involved warships and aircraft

The Battle of Patria (Kaskaidan: 파트리아 해 해전 Pateulia hae Haejeon, lit. 'Patria Sea Naval Battle') was the conclusive battle and one of the largest naval battles of the Great War. Fought in waters northeast of Patria Harbor in the Anagonian territory of West Islands between the combined forces of the battleship-centered task force Great Dragon Sea of the Confederate States Navy and the Marinan Fleet Task Group of the Meridonian Navy against Striking Group Central, a formation which comprised of roughly eighty percent of the fleet of the Kaskaidan Navy.

By this point in the Great War, Kaskaida had been fighting for nearly twenty years and was stretched thin in terms of resources and manpower. The war in Hiakemiria had recently been concluded, with alliance assets tied in that theater expected to be redeployed to the Kaskaidan front. The Kaskaidan admiralty determined to rapidly capture the Anagonian territories of the West Island and create a naval cordon from Ashilosa to Sarda in the south that would almost completely isolate Anagonia by sea. Compiling virtually all of its capital ships into a singular formation, it sortied south from ports in northern Ashilosa and defeated a number of Anagonian surface fleets sent to intercept it.

With the success of Meridonian amphibious assaults in western Sarda compromising its viability as a chokepoint, the Marinan FTG sailed through the Sardan Strait into the Great Dragon Ocean to support the Anagonian Battle Force Great Dragon Sea. An Anagonian surface group encountered and severely damaged the support grouping of Kaskaidan aircraft carriers in a night action on the night of 2 August into the morning of 3 August. Battle Group TBD and Striking Group Central's forward elements skirmished during the afternoon of 3 August before the Marinan FTG moved to pincer the Kaskaidan forces. Although it was entering a pitched battle against the numerically inferior Anagonian battle line, Meridonian carrier-based aviation devastated the Kaskaidan battle line, whose cohesion unraveled under relentless air attack and without the cover of its few aircraft carriers. After seven hours of engagement, the remnants of Striking Group Central surrendered to the Anagonians aboard the battleship Dreadnought.

The battle helped to cement the supremacy of carrier-based aviation over big-gun battleships in Meridonian doctrine (though Anagonia continued to utilize battleships in its own fleets), and highlighted the dangers of unsupported surface formations. Kaskaida sued for peace shortly after the battle was lost, ending the Great War; and would never again operate as a significant naval power. The victory is celebrated as a national day in Meridon as Patria Day.

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