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- Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [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]
- Destroyer escort [r]: Primarily a Second World War U.S. designation for an ocean escort or light destroyer, optimized for anti-submarine warfare with limited capability for anti-air warfare and anti-surface warfare [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]
- Joseph Warren Stilwell [r]: American general in World War II; commander of American forces in the China-Burma-India theater. [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
- Okinawa (disambiguation) [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]
- Okinawa prefecture [r]: (沖縄県 Okinawa-ken) Area of Japan consisting of many southerly islands of the Ryukyu Islands chain, with Okinawa Island the largest; population about 1,300,000. [e]
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target [e]
- USS Algorab (AKA-8) [r]: Arcturus class attack cargo ship named after Algorab, a star in the constellation Corvus. [e]
- USS Alhena (AKA-9) [r]: WWII U.S. attack cargo ship [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 Arcturus (AKA-1) [r]: WWII U.S. Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [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 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 Cepheus (AKA-18) [r]: A WWII attack cargo ship of the Andromeda-class, crewed by the United States Coast Guard [e]
- USS Circe (AKA-25) [r]: WWII Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Corvus (AKA-26) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Devosa (AKA-27) [r]: An Artemis class attack cargo ship; commissioned 16 months, and recepient of one battle star for World War II service. [e]
- USS Diphda (AKA-59) [r]: an Achernar class attack cargo ship named after a star in the constellation Cetus. [e]
- USS Hydrus (AKA-28) [r]: An Artemis class attack cargo ship named after the southern constellation Hydrus. [e]
- USS Lacerta (AKA-29) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Lumen (AKA-30) [r]: Artemis class attack cargo ship. [e]
- USS Muliphen (AKA-61) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Oberon (AKA-14) [r]: an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship of the U.S. Navy [e]
- USS Pamina (AKA-34) [r]: Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Panamint (AGC-13) [r]: Mount McKinley-class amphibious cargo ship [e]
- USS Procyon (AKA-2) [r]: Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Rankin (AKA-103) [r]: Tolland-class attack cargo ship in World War Two [e]
- USS Sheliak (AKA-62) [r]: U.S. Coast Guard WWII Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Theenim (AKA-63) [r]: Second World War Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Uvalde (AKA-88) [r]: Andromeda-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 Whiteside (AKA-90) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [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]
