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Parent topics
- World War Two [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World War Two in the Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]
- United States Navy [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces] responsible for combat on, over, and under water. [e]
Subtopics
- Torpedo bomber [r]: Now obsolete, but a naval bomber optimized for making a long, straight, slow and level approach to a target ship, to drop a heavy torpedo within a critical set of flight parameters [e]
- TBD Devastator [r]: First production carrier-capable monoplane of the United States Navy; took horrendous losses at the Battle of Midway, but that may have been more characteristic of the absolute need of WWII torpedo bombers to have fighter and diversionary protection unless in a night raid; replaced by TBF Avenger [e]
- TBF Avenger [r]: Primary U.S. Navy carrier-capable torpedo bomber after 1942; 3-man crew; many adaptations including horizontal bomber, anti-submarine warfare and early airborne early warning aircraft [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]