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  1. 103 relations: Akusekijima, American 21-inch torpedo, Annapolis, Maryland, Anti-aircraft warfare, Apra Harbor, Australia, Balikpapan, Banda Sea, Barge, Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun, Bohol Sea, Bowfin, Brisbane, Caliber (artillery), Captain (United States O-6), Cary Grant, Celebes Sea, Commander (United States), Convoy, Darwin, Northern Territory, Depth charge, Diesel–electric powertrain, Fighter aircraft, Fishing trawler, Flores Sea, Fremantle, Frigate, Grumman TBF Avenger, Guam, Hawaii, Hokkaido, Honolulu, Honshu, Independence Day (United States), Japanese invasion of French Indochina, Java Sea, Kagoshima, Kaiten, Kittery, Maine, Korean War, Kure Naval Arsenal, La Pérouse Strait, Lieutenant commander (United States), List of maritime museums in the United States, M2 Browning, Machine gun, Mainland Southeast Asia, Makassar Strait, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mariana Islands, ... Expand index (53 more) »

  2. Maritime museums in Hawaii
  3. Military and war museums in Hawaii
  4. Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
  5. Museum ships in Hawaii
  6. Museums in Honolulu
  7. National Historic Landmarks in Hawaii
  8. Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
  9. World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
  10. World War II museums in Hawaii
  11. World War II on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii

Akusekijima

, is one of the Tokara Islands, a subgroup of the Satsunan Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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American 21-inch torpedo

There have been a number of 21-inch torpedoes in service with the United States.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Anti-aircraft warfare

Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).

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Apra Harbor

Apra Harbor, also called Port Apra, is a deep-water port on the western side of the United States territory of Guam.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Balikpapan

Balikpapan is a seaport city in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Banda Sea

The Banda Sea (Laut Banda, Mar de Banda, Tasi Banda) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera and Ceram Seas.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun

--> The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.

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Bohol Sea

The Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, is a sea located between the Visayas and Mindanao islands in the Philippines.

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Bowfin

The bowfin (Amia calva) is a bony fish, native to North America.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Caliber (artillery)

In artillery, caliber or calibreCaliber is the American English spelling, while calibre is used in British English.

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Captain (United States O-6)

In the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps), captain is the senior-most commissioned officer rank below that of flag officer (i.e., admirals).

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.

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Celebes Sea

The Celebes Sea (Dagat Selebes) or Sulawesi Sea (Laut Sulawesi; Laut Sulawesi) of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by the Sangihe Islands chain, on the south by Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula, and the west by northern Kalimantan in Indonesia.

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Commander (United States)

In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military billet title—the designation of someone who manages living quarters or a base—depending on the branch of service.

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Convoy

A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Depth charge

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.

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Diesel–electric powertrain

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is a transmission system for vehicles powered by diesel engines in road, rail, and marine transport.

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Fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.

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Fishing trawler

A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.

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Flores Sea

The Flores Sea covers of water in Indonesia.

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Fremantle

Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital.

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Frigate

A frigate is a type of warship.

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Grumman TBF Avenger

The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Honshu

, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.

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Japanese invasion of French Indochina

The, (Invasion japonaise de l'Indochine) was a short undeclared military confrontation between Japan and Vichy France in northern French Indochina.

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Java Sea

The Java Sea (Laut Jawa, Segara Jawa) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east.

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Kagoshima

, officially, is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Kaiten

were crewed torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.

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Kittery, Maine

Kittery is a town in York County, Maine, United States, and the oldest incorporated town in Maine.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Kure Naval Arsenal

was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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La Pérouse Strait

La Pérouse Strait (пролив Лаперуза), or Sōya Strait (宗谷海峡), is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.

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Lieutenant commander (United States)

Lieutenant commander (LCDR) is a senior officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps), with the pay grade of O-4 and NATO rank code OF-3.

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List of maritime museums in the United States

List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel.

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M2 Browning

The M2 machine gun or Browning.50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning.

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Machine gun

A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Makassar Strait

Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY or MINS) was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean and was in service 142 years from 1854 to 1996.

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Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

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Midway Atoll

Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; translation; label) is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Minamidaitō, Okinawa

is a village located entirely on Minamidaitōjima in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Minamidaitōjima

, also spelt as Minami Daitō or Minami-Daitō, is the largest island in the Daitō Islands group southeast of Okinawa, Japan.

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Museum ship

A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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New London, Connecticut

New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the outlet of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.

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Oahu

Oahu (Hawaiian: Oʻahu) is the most populated and third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat is a 1959 American World War II submarine comedy film in Eastmancolor from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.

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Palau

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.

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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.

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Periscope

A periscope is an instrument for observation over, around or through an object, obstacle or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer's current position.

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Ralph Waldo Christie

Ralph Waldo Christie (30 August 1893 – 19 December 1987) was an admiral in the United States Navy who played a pivotal role in the development of torpedo technologies.

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Rear admiral (United States)

A rear admiral in the uniformed services of the United States is either of two different ranks of commissioned officers: one-star flag officers and two-star flag officers.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Shikoku

, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.

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Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.

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SSM-N-8 Regulus

The SSM-N-8A Regulus or the Regulus I was a United States Navy-developed ship-and-submarine-launched, nuclear-capable turbojet-powered second generation cruise missile, deployed from 1955 to 1964.

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Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Submarines in the United States Navy

There are three major types of submarines in the United States Navy: ballistic missile submarines, attack submarines, and cruise missile submarines.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.

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Tawi-Tawi

Tawi-Tawi, officially the Province of Tawi-Tawi (Tausug: Wilaya' sin Tawi-Tawi; Sinama: Jawi Jawi/Jauih Jauih; Lalawigan ng Tawi-Tawi), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

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Tokara Islands

The is an archipelago in the Nansei Islands, and are part of the Satsunan Islands, which is in turn part of the Ryukyu Archipelago.

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Tompkinsville, Staten Island

Tompkinsville is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City.

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Torpedo

A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.

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Torpedo bomber

A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes.

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Torpedo tube

A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes.

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Tsushima Maru

Tsushima Maru (対馬丸) was a Japanese passenger/cargo ship that was sunk by the submarine USS ''Bowfin'' during World War II, while carrying hundreds of schoolchildren from Okinawa to Nagasaki.

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Tsushima Strait

or Eastern Channel (동수로 Dongsuro) is a channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea.

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UGM-73 Poseidon

The UGM-73 Poseidon missile was the second US Navy nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system, powered by a two-stage solid-fuel rocket.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Naval Institute

The United States Naval Institute (USNI) is a private non-profit military association that offers independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national security issues.

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United States Navy Reserve

The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005, is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy.

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USS Arizona Memorial

The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day. USS Bowfin and USS Arizona Memorial are maritime museums in Hawaii, museums in Honolulu, national Register of Historic Places in Honolulu, naval museums in the United States, world War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, world War II museums in Hawaii and world War II on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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Walter T. Griffith

Walter Thomas Griffith (June 3, 1911 – January 25, 1966) was a United States Navy submarine commander in World War II.

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War and Remembrance (miniseries)

War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk.

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Westport, Connecticut

Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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4-inch/50-caliber gun

The 4″/50-caliber gun (spoken "four-inch-fifty-caliber") was the standard low-angle, quick-firing gun for United States, first appearing on the monitor and then used on "Flush Deck" destroyers through World War I and the 1920s.

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See also

Maritime museums in Hawaii

Military and war museums in Hawaii

Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii

Museum ships in Hawaii

Museums in Honolulu

National Historic Landmarks in Hawaii

Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii

World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument

World War II museums in Hawaii

World War II on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bowfin

Also known as SS 287, SS-287, SS287, USS Bowfin (AGSS-287), USS Bowfin (IXSS-287), USS Bowfin (SS-287), USS Bowfin Museum, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park.

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