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Parent topics
- United States Navy [r]: That part of the United States Department of Defense responsible for combat on, over, and under water [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
Subtopics
American Revolution
War of 1812
Piracy protection
American Civil War
- Battle of Hampton Roads [r]: Fought in March 1862 during the American Civil War, the first combat between steam-powered armored warships, CSS Virginia and USS Monitor [e]
Spanish-American War
World War I
Interwar and WWII
- Battle of Pearl Harbor [r]: Imperial Japanese Navy raid on United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which took place on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. [e]
- Doolittle Raid [r]: The first U.S. offensive operation in the Pacific during the Second World War. [e]
- Battle of the Atlantic [r]: A major campaign to secure Anglo-American shipping routes in the face of German opposition, principally submarine but also involving long-range aircraft and commerce raiding; eventually won by Allied technology, organization and industrial production [e]
- 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 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]
- Pacific submarine operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guadalcanal Campaign [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Savo Island [r]: A night cruiser-destroyer engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign, among the worst defeats for the U.S. Navy, which lost four cruisers [e]
- Battle of Rennell Island [r]: The last naval battle of the Guadalcanal Campaign, in which a U.S. cruiser-destroyer force under Rear Admiral "Ike" Giffen, concerned with meeting a schedule, sped ahead of its escort carriers and was attacked by Japanese aircraft from Rabaul [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]
- Raid on Rabaul [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Leyte Gulf [r]: The largest naval battle in history, fought in October 1944 as Japan tried to interfere with U.S. amphibious landings in the Philippines [e]
- Battle of the Sibuyan Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Cape Engano [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Surigao Strait [r]: Fought in October 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last naval engagement between forces based around battleships [e]
- Action off Samar [r]: One of the subordinate phases of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and often called the most gallant action in the history of the U.S. Navy, a failed attack by the main Japanese Center Force under vice admiral Takeo Kurita against a light U.S. force defending the transports and invasion beaches in the Philippines [e]
- Battle of Okinawa [r]: The longest, bloodiest U.S. World War II battle in which the Japanese island of Okinawa was captured in the spring of 1945. [e]
- Raiding Japan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Indianapolis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Leahy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernest King [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chester Nimitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Halsey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Raymond Spruance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richmond Turner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fast carrier operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. submarine operations in WWII [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Island hopping [r]: Add brief definition or description
Korean War
Cold War
Vietnam War
- Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation ROLLING THUNDER [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Son Tay Raid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation LINEBACKER I [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Top Gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
Middle East
- Operation ELDORADO CANYON [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation EARNEST WILL [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation PRAYING MANTIS [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gulf War and aftermath
- Operation DESERT STORM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation NORTHERN WATCH [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation SOUTHERN WATCH [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation DESERT FOX [r]: Add brief definition or description