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- Anti-shipping missile [r]: An air, surface (sea or land), or submarine-launched missile that can track and intercept a maneuvering ship target against the background of moving water [e]
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: (ASuW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking surface vessels, from small boats to supertankers and aircraft carriers, from platforms under naval command and control [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 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 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]
- 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]
- Fast attack craft [r]: Small naval craft, used in coastal waters, which rely on speed and maneuverability to survive to deliver heavy weapons (e.g., torpedoes, anti-shipping missiles) against warships, or to make gunfire attacks on merchant ships and landing craft [e]
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
- Republic of the Phillipines [r]: A large, democratic nation of Southeast Asia, consisting of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with many cultures, religions and languages [e]
- USS Chara (AKA-58) [r]: WWII U.S. Achernar-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) [r]: Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship. [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]
- World War II, air war [r]: Air operations in the Second World War [e]
