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- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]
- Battle of Britain [r]: Those German offensive air strikes, and British defense, with which the Germans had intended to establish air supremacy for their proposed invasion of Britain [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]
- 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]
- Doolittle Raid [r]: The first U.S. offensive operation in the Pacific during the Second World War. [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]
- Solomon Islands [r]: An island republic, part of the Commonwealth of Nations, min the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu; scene of much fighting in the Second World War [e]
- U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
- USS Eldorado (AGC-11) [r]: A Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship named after a mountain range in Nevada. [e]
- World War II, Australia [r]: Military preparations and defense of Australia proper during the Second World War, as well as opearations of Australian forces under Allied high command [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]
