Pacific Fleet
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area of operations
- In United States Navy: Structure of the U.S. Navy
…the world: the Third (Pacific Fleet), the Fourth (Southern Command), the Fifth (Central Command), the Sixth (U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa), the Seventh, and the Tenth (Cyber Command). Missing numbers in the sequence typically represent fleets that are no longer active. In addition, the navy’s Military Sealift Command provides ocean…
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history of World War II
- In World War II: Japanese policy, 1939–41
Pacific Fleet in its base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. The rest of the Japanese Navy was to support the army in the “Southern Operation”: 11 infantry divisions and seven tank regiments, assisted by 795 combat planes, were to undertake two drives, one…
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strategy
- In naval warfare: The age of the aircraft carrier
By 1944 the tactical doctrine of coordinating fighter air defenses, along with the now much strengthened antiaircraft firepower on ships of the fleet, was so effective that in the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19–21, 1944) more than 90 percent of 450 Japanese aircraft were wiped out…
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