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USN Raids on Kyushu and Inland Sea (16–19 March 1945) UNS Task Force 58 (Spruance/Mitscher) Note: First USN attacks on Inland Sea area, by at least 240 USN aircraft, was made on 19 March 1945. Note: " Task Groups 58.1, 58.3 and 58.4 were to attack Kure, and Task Group 58.2 was to strike Kobe." USS Enterprise (CV-6) light damage
The Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 38 when assigned to Third Fleet, TF 58 when assigned to Fifth Fleet) was a group of ships in World War II.It was the main striking force of the United States Navy in the Pacific War from January 1944 through the end of the war in September 1945.
The war in the European theatre concluded when Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, and the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific War. By July 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bombs: " Little Boy ", an enriched uranium gun-type fission weapon , and " Fat Man ", a plutonium implosion-type nuclear ...
With the fall of Wuhan/Hubei province to the Japanese, the wartime capital of China had been pushed back to Chongqing, where an all-air war campaign against targets in Sichuan province between the CAF and the IJAAF/IJNAF would rage for years in a cat and mouse game under the codenames "Operation 100", "101" and "102" IJA/IJN "joint-strike force ...
Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945. Australia in the War of 1939–1945, Series 2 – Navy. Vol. II. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 65475. Hobbs, David (2011). The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781591140443.
Operation Meridian, also known as the "Palembang Raids" was part of a series of British air attacks directed at Japanese-held oil refineries near Palembang on Sumatra during the Second World War, Meridian had two phases: Meridian I on 24 January 1945 and Meridian II on 29 January. As a result, the critical aviation fuel output of the plants at ...
Task Force 64 was under the command of Admiral Willis Lee who, like Kinkaid, reported directly to Nimitz. [224] Admiral Kondo had a 3:2 advantage in strike aircraft over Admiral Kinkaid. In addition, Kondo's air groups contained the remainder of the 3,500 highly prized, highly trained, and now highly experienced pilots with which Japan began ...
The Crucible of War, 1939–1945. Volume 3 of The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-0574-8. Herington, John (1963). Air Power Over Europe, 1944–1945. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 3 – Air. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 3633419.