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- ARC LIGHT [r]: Code name for use of B-52 bombers to deliver very large amounts of conventional bombs to targets in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War; the term has become generic for large-volume bomb drops against targets without significant air defenses [e]
- Air refueling [r]: Transferring fuel from one aircraft to another while both are in flight. [e]
- B-2 Spirit (bomber) [r]: U.S. long-range, low-observability "stealth" heavy bomber [e]
- Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. [e]
- Chester Nimitz [r]: United States Navy fleet admiral (1885-1966) who was Commander in Chief, Pacific and Pacific Ocean Areas in World War II [e]
- Combat loading [r]: A method of loading cargo into ships that will carry it to amphibious landing sites, such that can be unloaded in a manner optimized to meet the operational needs of combat rather than maximizing the utilization of the ship's cargo space [e]
- Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
- Extinction [r]: The complete elimination of a species. [e]
- Ferdinand Magellan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guadalcanal campaign [r]: The first Allied offensive campaign of the Pacific theater in WWII, fought August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943; Allied victory [e]
- Japanese language [r]: (日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide. [e]
- Marshall Islands [r]: Formerly a U.S. trust territory, site of major Japanese bases in WWII, and then used for U.S. nuclear testing after the war; now a semi-independent facility with local government but the U.S. in control of foreign policy; the U.S. operates large ballistic missile defense test ranges [e]
- Naval Station Guantanamo Bay [r]: The overall U.S. Navy leased facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which contains the Guantanamo Bay detention camp but also other unrelated military functions such as supporting naval patrols in the Caribbean [e]
- Obama administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Okinawa Islands [r]: (沖縄諸島 Okinawa-shotoo) group of Japanese islands including Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Islands chain; many are uninhabited. [e]
- Okinawa Island [r]: (沖縄本島 Okinawa-hontoo) largest island of Okinawa prefecture in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands chain, with Naha (那覇市 Naha-shi) its capital. [e]
- Pacific Ocean [r]: the largest single mass of water in the world, lying between Asia and Australia on its west, and North America and South America on its east. [e]
- Prepositioning ship [r]: Military cargo ships, normally in squadrons of several vessels, that are prepositioned at secure forward locations, in order to speed delivery of sustainment supplies to the initial forces landed by air or from combat amphibious warfare ships. [e]
- Spanish language [r]: A Romance language widely spoken in Spain, its current and former territories, and the United States of America. [e]
- U.S. government training of foreign police [r]: The scope of U.S. activities in the training of foreign police, where the major emphasis is on learning skills rather than their immediate application in a cooperative international law enforcement effort [e]
- USS Alchiba (AKA-6) [r]: WWII U.S. Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Alcyone (AKA-7) [r]: WWII U.S. Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Almaack (AKA-10) [r]: attack cargo ship of the Second World War [e]
- USS Alshain (AKA-55) [r]: An Andromeda class attack cargo ship that was deployed during World War II and the Korean War; it could carry heavy equipments, supplies, and troops, and deploy landing crafts in amphibious assaults. [e]
- USS Andromeda (AKA-15) [r]: An Andromeda class attack cargo ship. [e]
- USS Aquarius (AKA-16) [r]: Manned by United States Coast Guard personnel, a WWII U.S. Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Arneb (AKA-56) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War and beyond; the AKA longest in service [e]
- USS Aurelia (AKA-23) [r]: Artemis-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War [e]
- USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Birgit (AKA-24) [r]: WWII U.S. Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Capricornus (AKA-57) [r]: WWII U.S. Achernar-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Centaurus (AKA-17) [r]: WWII U.S. Andromeda-class attack cargo ship, manned by the United States Coast Guard [e]
- USS Corvus (AKA-26) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Diphda (AKA-59) [r]: an Achernar class attack cargo ship named after a star in the constellation Cetus. [e]
- USS Eldorado (AGC-11) [r]: A Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship named after a mountain range in Nevada. [e]
- USS Electra (AKA-4) [r]: WWII U.S. Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Hydrus (AKA-28) [r]: An Artemis class attack cargo ship named after the southern constellation Hydrus. [e]
- USS Lenoir (AKA-74) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Libra (AKA-12) [r]: Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Marquette (AKA-95) [r]: U.S. Navy Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Mathews (AKA-96) [r]: WWII U.S. Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Montague (AKA-98) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) [r]: Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship. [e]
- USS New Hanover (AKA-73) [r]: Tolland class attack cargo ship named after New Hanover County, North Carolina [e]
- USS Ostara (AKA-33) [r]: Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Ottawa (AKA-101) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Polana (AKA-35) [r]: Artemis class attack cargo ship. [e]
- USS Sarita (AKA-39) [r]: Second World War Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Scania (AKA-40) [r]: Second World War Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Seminole (AKA-104) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship in World War Two [e]
- USS Shadwell (LSD-15) [r]: Casa Grande-class Landing Ship Dock [e]
- USS Sheliak (AKA-62) [r]: U.S. Coast Guard WWII Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Shoshone (AKA-65) [r]: Tolland class attack cargo ship. [e]
- USS Skagit (AKA-105) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Southampton (AKA-66) [r]: A Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Southampton County, Virginia. [e]
- USS Starlight (AP-175) [r]: WWII amphibious troop transport [e]
- USS Starr (AKA-67) [r]: Second World War Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Stokes (AKA-68) [r]: Second World War Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Storm King (AP-171) [r]: A Storm King class auxiliary transport; a troop carrier that received four battle stars for World War II service. [e]
- USS Suffolk (AKA-69) [r]: Second World War Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Tate (AKA-70) [r]: Tolland class attack cargo ship named after a County in Mississippi. [e]
- USS Theenim (AKA-63) [r]: Second World War Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Titania (AKA-13) [r]: Arcturus class attack cargo ship named after one of the moons of Uranus [e]
- USS Tolland (AKA-64) [r]: Lead ship of Second World War Tolland-class of attack cargo ships [e]
- USS Towner (AKA-77) [r]: WWII Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Trego (AKA-78) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Trousdale (AKA-79) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Tulare (AKA-112) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII C4 type attack cargo ship that operated from the 1950s into the late 1970s [e]
- USS Tyrrell (AKA-80) [r]: Second World War Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Uvalde (AKA-88) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Valencia (AKA-81) [r]: Serving in WWII, a Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Vanadis (AKA-49) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Artemis-class attack cargo ship, later converted to a repair ship [e]
- USS Venango (AKA-82) [r]: Tolland class attack cargo ship named after a County in Pennsylvania. [e]
- USS Vinton (AKA-83) [r]: Tolland class attack cargo ship. [e]
- USS Virgo (AKA-20) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship of the Second World War, later converted to an ammunition ship [e]
- USS Warrick (AKA-89) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Waukesha (AKA-84) [r]: Serving in WWII, a Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Wheatland (AKA-85) [r]: Serving in WWII, a Tolland-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Whiteside (AKA-90) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Whitley (AKA-91) [r]: Attack cargo ship of the Andromeda-class, serving in WWII [e]
- USS Winston (AKA-94) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Woodford (AKA-86) [r]: A Tolland class attack cargo ship named after counties in Illinois and Kentucky. [e]
- USS Wyandot (AKA-92) [r]: Attack cargo ship of the Andromeda-class, serving in WWII and well beyond [e]
- USS Yancey (AKA-93) [r]: Serving in WWII, an attack cargo ship [e]
- United States Marine Corps [r]: A branch of the United States Armed Forces, with primary responsibilities as naval infantry and in amphibious warfare, are organized in Marine Air-Ground Task Forces capable of serving as up to corps headquarters with integrated close air support [e]
- United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command [e]
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- William McKinley [r]: (1843–1901) Twenty-fifth President of the United States, Governor of Ohio. [e]
- World War II, Pacific [r]: The part of World War II, 1937-45, with Japan defeated by the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, the Soviet Union and other Allies. [e]
