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- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]
- Battle of Iwo Jima [r]: An exceptionally vicious battle, fought in February 1945, which solidified the U.S. strategic bombing of Japan by providing a closer island base, which both could support P-51 escort fighters and provide an emergency landing field for damage B-29 bombers [e]
- Battle of Leyte Gulf [r]: The largest naval battle in history, fought in October 1944 to reconquer the Phillipines from Japanese occupation [e]
- Battle of Midway [r]: Generally considered to be the turning point of the Pacific Theater in the Second World War, a Japanese force intending to capture Midway Island was turned back with the loss of four aircraft carriers, at the cost of one U.S. carrier; it was the last major Japanese offensive of the war [e]
- Battle of Okinawa [r]: The longest, bloodiest U.S. World War II battle in which the Japanese island of Okinawa was captured in the spring of 1945. [e]
- Battle of Rabaul [r]: An air campaign, by the U.S., against a Japanese base in the Pacific in World War II, to neutralize it without the need for amphibious warfare [e]
- Battle of Surigao Strait [r]: Fought in October 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last naval engagement between forces based around battleships [e]
- Battle of Tarawa [r]: Fought in November 1943, a U.S. Marine Corps force made an amphibious attack in the Tarawa atoll of the Gilbert Islands, principally against the island of Betio; it was an American victory but with very high casualties, and a significant part of a distinct strategic offense [e]
- Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory [e]
- Battle of the Philippine Sea [r]: An carrier battle between the U.S. and Japan in June 1944, called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" due to the extremely heavy Japanese aircraft losses, marked the end of offensive Japanese capabilities, and gave the U.S. control of the islands from which the major B-29 bomber offensive against the Japanese Home Islands could be conducted [e]
- Cabanatuan [r]: A Japanese prison camp in the Phillipines, against which a successful hostage rescue operation was conducted before the prisoners could be killed [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]
- Cipher [r]: A means of combining plaintext (of letters or numbers, or bits), using an algorithm that mathematically manipulates the individual elements of plaintext, into ciphertext, a form unintelligible to any recipient that does not know both the algorithm and a randomizing factor called a cryptographic key [e]
- Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets [e]
- George C. Marshall [r]: Army Chief of Staff (WWII), Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense (Korean War)and sponsor of the Marshall Plan. [e]
- 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]
- Hirohito [r]: The 124th and longest-reigning Emperor of Japan, 1926-89. [e]
- Kamikaze [r]: Suicide attacks, specifically by Japanese aircraft in the Second World War, against military targets [e]
- Manchukuo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
- Military History [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval warfare [r]: The miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
- 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]
- Operation CATCHPOLE [r]: The U.S. invasion of Eniwetok, in the Marshall Islands, during the Pacific campaign of the Second World War [e]
- Operation FLINTLOCK [r]: The U.S. amphibious campaign against Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Theater of Operations of the Second World War [e]
- Papua New Guinea [r]: A developing nation in Oceania, part of the Commonwealth of Nations, on whose islands and in whose waters were fought many major battles of the Second World War [e]
- Swarming (military) [r]: A method of military attacking using multiple attack forces against an opponent, which act in an autonomous but synchronized manner, with real-time communications for their coordination [e]
- U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
- United States Third Fleet [r]: Currently a naval component of United States Pacific Command, based in San Diego, California; was the Central Pacific combat fleet in the Second World War when under the command of ADM William Halsey [e]
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- Wake Island [r]: An atoll in the Pacific Ocean, under U.S. jurisdiction, with no native population; it was the site of a base in the Second World War and has been used as a refueling and emergency airfield, as well as a support facility for missile testing [e]
- World War II [r]: War between the Allies (most notably the UK, US and Soviet Union) and the Axis (principally Germany and Japan) 1939–1945. [e]
