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The Navy Built a Record 50 Jeep Casablanca-Class Aircraft Carriers for 1 Reason
Escort carriers, also known as “Jeep Carriers,” were smaller, lightly armored WWII aircraft carriers built quickly to support ...
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Okinawa: 80th anniversary of the bloody final invasion of the Pacific War
Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...
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The War In the Pacific
Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific. Japan invades Hong Kong ... After the first U.S. amphibious landing of the war, American marines gain a foothold by capturing the airport.
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Marines, Japanese forces prepare for amphibious warfare on Okinawa
KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious landing by U.S. Marines and Japanese ... environment it has seen since the end of World War II,” Maj. Gen. Hajime Kitajima, commander of ...
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U.S. Air Force, Navy Restore Historic WWII-Era Airfield in the Pacific
U.S. Air Force engineers, U.S. Navy Seabees, and U.S. Marine engineer teams have reclaimed a historic World War II airfield from jungle growth in the Western Pacific for use for operations for ...