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- Air operations in the Vietnam War [r]: Air warfare, generally excluding helicopters in direct support of troops, waged between 1962 and 1975 against targets in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, from aircraft carriers as well as bases in South Vietnam and Thailand [e]
- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]
- Alaska [r]: The largest and most northerly state in the United States of America but sparse in population (pop. 670,053). [e]
- Arctic Ocean [r]: The sea around the Earth's North pole. [e]
- Asia [r]: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). [e]
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations [r]: Association of South-East Asian Nations; treaty group formed in 1967, originally comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Brunei was admitted as a member in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Burma and Laos in 1997, Cambodia in 1999; Australia is a "dialogue partner". [e]
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [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]
- Ben Tre Province [r]: An island province, through which multiple rivers run to the South China Sea, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam [e]
- Can Tho Province [r]: The province at the meeting of the rivers of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, containing the traditional regional capital of Can Tho City [e]
- Chile [r]: A country in the southwestern part of South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. [e]
- Colombia [r]: Country in South America. [e]
- Costa Rica [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cryonics [r]: Low-temperature cryopreservation of humans or other animals in the vague hope that resuscitation may eventually become possible in the future. [e]
- Evolution of sirenians [r]: History of the origins of the order Sirenia, and the evolutionary processes that have affected manatees, dugongs, and the now extinct Steller's sea cow. [e]
- Ferdinand Magellan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Flagship [r]: The vessel which holds the commander of a fleet. [e]
- Gilbert Islands [r]: An island group in the western part of the central Pacific Ocean, now the Republic of Kiribati, which contains the Tarawa atoll and Betio island, site of the WWII Battle of Tarawa [e]
- Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) [r]: Large German passenger carrying rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937, named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin. [e]
- Guam [r]: A civilian-governed U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific, it is a major U.S. military base, including a prepositioning ship squadron and Anderson Air Force Base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- Guatemala [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hawaiian Creole [r]: Creole language (created through children acquiring a pidgin as their first language and thereby making it complex) popularly known as Hawaiian 'Pidgin', with vocabulary largely from English; spoken in the U.S. state of Hawaii, it replaced an earlier pidgin based on the Hawaiian language. [e]
- Humboldt County, California [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Indian Ocean [r]: Body of water bordered on the west by Africa; on the north by Asia; on the east by Indochina, some islands of Indonesia, and Australia; and on the south by the Antarctic Ocean. [e]
- James Cook [r]: (1728-1779) a British explorer and navigator. [e]
- Janis Joplin [r]: (19 January 1943 – 4 October 1970) American singer, songwriter and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. [e]
- John Byron [r]: John Byron was an eighteenth Century naval officer and explorer. [e]
- List of rivers by length [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: The basic structure of United States Marine Corps combined arms, task-organized units [e]
- Marine biology [r]: The study of life in the seas and oceans. [e]
- Maritime patrol aircraft [r]: Very long range, usually land-based, aircraft optimized for sea surveillance, originally principally for anti-submarine warfare but often with anti-surface warfare capabilities; newer types also have land and littoral surveillance roles [e]
- Marshall Islands [r]: Formerly a U.S. trust territory, site of major Japanese bases in WWII, and then used for U.S. nuclear testing after the war; now a semi-independent facility with local government but the U.S. in control of foreign policy; the U.S. operates large ballistic missile defense test ranges [e]
- Mauna Kea [r]: One of the three main volcanic mountains on Hawaii, the biggest island in the state of Hawaii. [e]
- Mexico [r]: A country in North America, bordering the United States on the north and Guatemala and Belize on the south. [e]
- New Zealand [r]: Country in Oceania, in the South Pacific and belonging to the Commonwealth. [e]
- Nghe An Province [r]: A province in the narrowest part of Vietnam, between Laos and the South China Sea, known as the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh; current economy largely based on production of construction materials [e]
- Ninh Thuan Province [r]: The southernmost province of central Vietnam; the South China Sea forms its eastern border [e]
- Oceania [r]: A major geographical region of the planet Earth, mostly in the southern hemisphere, consisting of Australasia (the Australian continent and New Zealand), Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. [e]
- Operation ROLLING THUNDER [r]: Initial sustained U.S. air campaign against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), based on a controversial model of retaliation and gradually increasing pressure rather than a short and intense campaign intended to destroy, not dissuade and punish [e]
- Oregon [r]: State in the north west of the United States of America. [e]
- Panama Canal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Panthera tigris (Tiger) [r]: Large carnivorous feline mammal of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes, a member of the Felidae family, and the largest of the four 'big cats' in the genus Panthera. [e]
- Philip de Cateret [r]: A Royal Navy officer and Pacific explorer. [e]
- Philippine Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philippines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pitcairn Island [r]: A small Pacific Island where the crew of the Bounty settled after their famous mutiny. [e]
- Prince William Sound [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quang Nam Province [r]: A province in the central part of Vietnam, with coastal area on the South China Sea and a western border with Laos [e]
- Quang Tri Province [r]: A province in present-day north central Vietnam, which was the northernmost province of South Vietnam, and remains one of the most war-damaged parts of the country [e]
- Safety of Life at Sea [r]: International convention defining safety requirements for ships [e]
- San Francisco [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sea of Japan [r]: A sea that lies between Korea and Japan, connected to the Pacific Ocean through several channels, including the Korea Strait, the La Perouse Strait, and the Strait of Tartary. [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]
- South China Sea [r]: A part of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by nations of Southeast Asia and East Asia, important for navigation but also for small islands over which resource and sovereignty disputes exist [e]
- Southeast Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- State of Hawaii [r]: State of the United States of America consisting of an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. [e]
- Strait of Malacca [r]: One of the world's busiest waterways, passing Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines and Thailand, where piracy has been a major problem [e]
- The New Atlantis [r]: A utopian fantasy by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) set in the fictitious country of Bensalem located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. [e]
- U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
- USS Oberon (AKA-14) [r]: an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship of the U.S. Navy [e]
- USS Oglethorpe (AKA-100) [r]: WWII attack cargo ship of the Andromeda-class [e]
- USS St. Louis (LKA-116) [r]: Charleston-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Theenim (AKA-63) [r]: Second World War Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Washburn (AKA-108) [r]: WWII attack cargo ship of the Tolland-class [e]
- USS Winston (AKA-94) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- United States Pacific Command [r]: The U.S. Unified Combatant Command, headquartered in Hawaii, and responsible for the Pacific and East Asia [e]
- United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges [r]: Atolls and island complexes in the Pacific Ocean, managed as refuges by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of Interior. [e]
- United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command [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]
- Washington [r]: 42nd state of the USA. [e]
- West Coast of the United States [r]: Bordering the Pacific Ocean, the states of California, Washington and Oregon. [e]
