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{{r|Naval Battle of Guadalcanal||**}} | {{r|Naval Battle of Guadalcanal||**}} | ||
{{r|First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal||**}} | {{r|First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal||***}} | ||
{{r|Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal||**}} | {{r|Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal||***}} | ||
{{r|Battle of Savo Island||**}} | {{r|Battle of Savo Island||**}} | ||
{{r|Battle of Tassafaronga||**}} | {{r|Battle of Tassafaronga||**}} | ||
{{r|Battle of Rennell Island||**}} | {{r|Battle of Rennell Island||**}} | ||
==Other related topics== | ==Other related topics== | ||
{{r|Australia}} | {{r|Australia}} | ||
{{r|Papua New Guinea}} | {{r|Papua New Guinea}} | ||
{{r|Vanuatu}} | {{r|Vanuatu}} | ||
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Parent topics
- Commonwealth of Nations [r]: An international organisation that evolved out of the British Empire. [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]
Subtopics
- 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]
- 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]
- Battle of Cape Esperance [r]: A night naval engagement between U.S. and Japanese forces, 11-12 October 1942, off the northernmost point of Guadalcanal [e]
- Naval Battle of Guadalcanal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Savo Island [r]: A night cruiser-destroyer engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign, among the worst defeats for the United States Navy, which lost four cruisers [e]
- Battle of Tassafaronga [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Rennell Island [r]: The last naval battle of the Guadalcanal Campaign, in which a U.S. cruiser-destroyer force under Rear Admiral "Ike" Giffen, concerned with meeting a schedule, sped ahead of its escort carriers and was attacked by Japanese aircraft from Rabaul [e]
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [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]
- Vanuatu [r]: Republic in the Pacific Ocean, comprising of 80 islands in an archipelago 1,750 kilometres north-east of Australia. [e]