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The surrender of Japan to Allied forces on the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. 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.
Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, vol. 2: The Pacific War, 1942–1945 (1990) Miller, Edward S. (2007). War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-500-4. Morison, Samuel Eliot, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 3 ...
The United States Navy urged the use of a blockade and airpower to bring about ... 1945 American estimates of Japanese troop strength on Kyūshū as of August 2, 1945
The United States had more than 12 million men and women in the armed forces at the end of World War II, of whom 7.6 million were stationed abroad. [1] The American public demanded a rapid demobilization and soldiers protested the slowness of the process. Military personnel were returned to the United States in Operation Magic Carpet. By June ...
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.
The modern United States Navy maintains a sizable global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. It is a blue-water navy with the ability to project force onto the littoral regions of the world, engage in forward deployments during peacetime and rapidly respond to regional ...
These ships of the Allied navies of World War II were present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945) when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63). The only two US vessels present at both the Pearl Harbor attack and Tokyo Bay surrender were the USS West Virginia and the USS ...
The US Navy's Task Force 58, deployed to the east of Okinawa with a picket group of 6 to 8 destroyers, kept 13 carriers (7 fleet carriers and 6 light carriers) on duty from 23 March to 27 April and a smaller number thereafter. Until 27 April, a minimum of 14 and up to 18 escort carriers were in the area at all times.