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- Imperial Japanese Navy [r]: The part of the Japanese military responsible for naval warfare, 1868-1945 [e]
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- 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]
- 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]
- Kamikaze [r]: Suicide attacks, specifically by Japanese aircraft in the Second World War, against military targets [e]
- Takeo Kurita [r]: Vice Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy; commanded First Striking Force (Leyte) at Battle of Leyte Gulf and Japanese Second Fleet (battleships); President of the Naval Academy at war's end [e]
- Takajiro Ohnishi [r]: (1891-1945) Vice Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy; aviation officer regarded as the father of the organized kamikazes; committed seppuku after the surrender of Japan [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]
- Fred Zabitosky [r]: United States Army Special Forces and MACV-SOG non-commissioned officer, a Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam War and an expert on special reconnaissance [e]
- IJN Yamato [r]: Lead ship of the class of the biggest battleships ever built; sunk by U.S. carrier aircraft in 1945, while on a "do-or-die" mission to reinforce Japanese forces at the Battle of Okinawa [e]