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World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). ^[e]

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B-17 Flying Fortress (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
B-24 Liberator (bomber) [r]: A U.S. designed heavy bomber, of the Second World War, with moderate payload and defenses but extremely long range; valued as an anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol aircraft ^[e]
B-25 Mitchell [r]: A U.S. Army Air Force medium bomber of the Second World War, especially noted for its unprecedented one-way mission in the Doolittle Raid, and, with major modifications, as a low-level attack aircraft against Japanese ships ^[e]
B-26 (bomber) [r]: World War II medium bomber, used for close air support and anti-shipping work as well as battlefield interdiction; often had unusually large gun equipment ^[e]
B-29 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: The heaviest bomber aircraft of the Second World War, used by the United States to attack the Japanese home islands, at very long range; delivered nuclear weapons to Hiroshima and Nagasaki ^[e]

Battle of the Beams [r]: Add brief definition or description
Battle of Britain [r]: Those German offensive air strikes, and British defense, with which the Germans had intended to establish air supremacy for their proposed invasion of Britain ^[e]
Battle of Cape Engaño [r]: Add brief definition or description
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 the Eastern Solomons [r]: Fought in August 1942 between U.S. and Japanese forces, and the second of the five World War II battles fought between carrier units; U.S. lost more ships, Japanese lost more aircraft, and Japanese reinforcement of Guadalcanal was prevented while U.S. Marines fought off a determined ground attack on the airfield ^[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]
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]
Pearl Harbor (World War II) [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]
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]
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands [r]: October 1942 battle between U.S. and Japanese carrier forces supporting operations on Guadalcanal; U.S. lost more ships but Japan lost more aircraft; helped hold back Japanese land attack ^[e]
Battle of Taranto [r]: A devastating 1940 airstrike by British carrier aircraft against Italian warships in the harbor of Taranto; demonstrated that aerial torpedoes could work in shallow water and proved the concept used by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor ^[e]
Mitsubishi G4M Betty (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
C-47 Skytrain (transport) [r]: Add brief definition or description
De Havilland Mosquito [r]: An extremely fast and flexible British aircraft, of plywood construction and with two engines, used as a light bomber, night fighter, special transport, and reconnaissance aircraft. ^[e]
Doolittle Raid [r]: Add brief definition or description

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