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Southwest Pacific Area [r]: Second World War theater of operations under the command of Douglas MacArthur; major components included Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, the western Solomon Islands, and the Malay Peninsula and Singapore ^[e]
- United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command ^[e]
  - Thomas Kinkaid [r]: Admiral, United States Navy; commander of United States Seventh Fleet, Southwest Pacific Area (""MacArthur's Navy") in the Second World War ^[e]
- Far Eastern Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
  - George Kenney [r]: (1889-1977) General, United States Air Force, who headed the Far Eastern Air Force of Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Area, and was the first commander of the Strategic Air Command ^[e]
Stanley Savige [r]: An Australian Army officer involved in the establishment of a war widows and orphans benefit fund ^[e]
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]
World War II, air war, Southwest Pacific [r]: Air operations, both independent of and supporting amphibious warfare, in the part of the Pacific commanded, in World War II, by Douglas MacArthur ^[e]
Hirohito [r]: The 124th and longest-reigning Emperor of Japan, 1926-89. ^[e]

Korean War [r]: (1950-1953) war on the Korean peninsula in which about 3 million people died (mostly civilians), begun when North Korea, backed by China, attempted to overrun South Korea, which had been placed under the control of U.S.-led United Nations forces after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW II. ^[e]
Intelligence on the Korean War [r]: The collection and analysis, primarily by the United States with South Korean help, of information that predicted the 1950 invasion of South Korea, and the plans and capabilities of the enemy once the war had started ^[e]
Battle of Inchon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Walton Walker [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ned Almond [r]: Add brief definition or description
Matthew Ridgway [r]: Add brief definition or description
James van Fleet [r]: Add brief definition or description

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