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2. United States Navy in World War II - Wikipedia

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   The United States Navy grew rapidly during its involvement in World War II from 1941–45, and played a central role in the Pacific War against Imperial Japan. It also assisted the British Royal Navy in the naval war against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The U.S. Navy grew slowly in the years prior to World War II, due in part to ...

3. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

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   Victory in the Pacific: 1945. OL 24590968M. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1962). Supplement and General Index. OL 24366206M. An abridgement of the fifteen-volume work was written by Morison and published in 1963: Morison, Samuel Eliot (1963). The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown.

4. List of Allied convoys during World War II by region - Wikipedia

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   15 February 1943 3 June 1945 71 14-knot convoys of tankers with some fast cargo ships: UGF: Chesapeake Bay to Mediterranean 24 October 1942 8 April 1945 22 faster ships - (UGF-1) was the invasion force for Operation Torch: UGS: Chesapeake Bay to Mediterranean 13 November 1942 28 May 1945 95 slower ships UT United States to British Isles 1943 ...

5. Naval history of World War II - Wikipedia

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   Allied attack routes against Japan. The United States Navy grew rapidly during World War II from 1941 to 1945, and played a central role in the Pacific theatre in the war against Japan. It also played a major supporting role, alongside the Royal Navy, in the European war against Germany. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) sought naval superiority ...

6. List of submarines of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   Foundered in bad weather in 1863. First submarine of the United States Navy. Intelligent Whale. Experimental submarine built in 1863, acquired by the US Navy in 1869 and abandoned in 1873. DSV-0. Trieste. First submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960.

7. USS Bushnell (AS-15) - Wikipedia

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   18.5 kn (21.3 mph; 34.3 km/h) Complement. 444. Armament. 4 × 5 in (130 mm) guns. USS Bushnell (AS-15) was a Fulton -class submarine tender in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1948 and from 1952 to 1970. She was finally sunk as a target ship in 1983.