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Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 1942: Death of USS Hornet - Animated

The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater ...
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World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: IN THE CORAL SEA

On the desk in the breezy, rambling headquarters building in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard lay charts, reconnaissance reports, intelligence advices. These charts, reports, advices were the hither end of a ...
Time

BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Hit Hard, Hit Fast, Hit Often

Admiral Chester William Nimitz measured his words. With his own hand the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet wrote last week: Halsey’s conduct of his present command leaves nothing to be desired.
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Navy honors heroes from Battle of Midway, 82 years after turning point in the Pacific

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — "They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so, they changed the course of a war," so says an inscription on the World War Two Memorial in Washington, referring to the ...
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How the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal escalated into an all-out slugfest

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...
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Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal: Pacific War Naval Warfare

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal: Pacific War Naval Warfare CARRIER BATTLES is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame covering the naval-air battles of the ...
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Lost bow of USS New Orleans found in South Pacific more than 80 years after battle

The last remaining piece of a damaged American ship from World War II has been found. A team of scientists and explorers discovered the bow of the USS New Orleans off the coast of the Solomon Islands ...