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• 5"-38 caliber gun [r]: A dual purpose (DP) gun, effective for both surface and antiaircraft use, mounted on very many U.S. Navy ships in the World War II era, but which has disappeared from service today. ^[e]
• AH-1 Cobra [r]: Add brief definition or description
• APS-145 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Air warfare planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Amphibious ready group [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• B-25 Mitchell [r]: A U.S. Army Air Force medium bomber of the Second World War, especially noted for its unprecedented one-way mission in the Doolittle Raid, and, with major modifications, as a low-level attack aircraft against Japanese ships ^[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]
• Battle of Pearl Harbor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory ^[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]
• Carrier strike group [r]: In the United States Navy, the group of ships centered around a large aircraft carrier ^[e]
• Carrier-capable [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Catapult Assisted Take Off But Arrested Recovery [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Catapult [r]: A device for converting stored energy into a strong linear force ^[e]
• Combined arms [r]: Military actions that involve the coordinated effort of different types of ground troops (e.g., infantry, artillery, engineers) or different military services (e.g., Army and Air Force) ^[e]
• Conventional takeoff and landing [r]: Either an aircraft that requires long runways, or a carrier-capable aircraft that must be catapult-launched and will land with the tailhook & arrested landing system ^[e]
• Cruise book [r]: Yearbook-style publication produced by United States Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps ships after a long deployment. ^[e]
• Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense ^[e]
• Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• E-2 Hawkeye [r]: Add brief definition or description
• F-35C Lightning II [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Flagship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hazard from Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• High-value asset [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John McCain [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Key West Agreement [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kirov-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Korean War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Littoral warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marine navigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michelle Howard [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval gunfire support [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval vessel designation code [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation DESERT SHIELD [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation FLAMING DART [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Palau [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Preventive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Raid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Royal Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Short takeoff and vertical landing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Solomon Islands [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tactics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tailhook [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ticonderoga-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Timothy Keating [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Type C3 ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Navy [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Boxer (LHD-4) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Estes (AGC-12) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS San Jacinto (CG-56) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Seventh Fleet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Sixth Fleet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warship [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War II, air war [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War II [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Yearbook [r]: Add brief definition or description