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• Battle of the Coral Sea [r]: Fought in May 1942, the first battle between naval forces built around aircraft carriers, in which the opposing United States and Japanese ships never saw one another; it was a tactical Japanese defeat and strategic U.S. victory ^[e]
• George C. Marshall [r]: Army Chief of Staff (WWII), Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense (Korean War)and sponsor of the Marshall Plan. ^[e]
• Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest ^[e]
• Medal of Honor [r]: The highest U.S. military decoration for valor, "above and beyond the call of duty", at the risk of life, in direct combat ^[e]
• Palau [r]: Independent republic in the Pacific Ocean, an archipelago consisting of more than 350 islets. ^[e]
• Philippines [r]: A large, democratic nation of Southeast Asia, consisting of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with many cultures, religions and languages. ^[e]
• World War II, Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. ^[e]
• World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). ^[e]

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• Chester W. Nimitz [r]: United States Navy admiral (1885-1966) who was Commander in Chief, Pacific and Pacific Ocean Areas in World War II ^[e]
• William Halsey [r]: Fleet admiral of the United States Navy in the Pacific theater of World War II, commanding the Third United States Fleet; a colorful and inspirational fighting leader with some limitations in strategy and large fleet command ^[e]
• USS Winston (AKA-94) [r]: Serving in WWII, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship ^[e]
• USS Alshain (AKA-55) [r]: An Andromeda class attack cargo ship that was deployed during World War II and the Korean War; it could carry heavy equipments, supplies, and troops, and deploy landing crafts in amphibious assaults. ^[e]
• Gunichi Mikawa [r]: Former vice admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, a specialist in torpedoes and gunnery who led cruiser-destroyer task forces, and later the area commander for the Southwest Pacific during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. ^[e]
• Frank Jack Fletcher [r]: Admiral, United States Navy, who commanded carrier task forces in 1942, but was transferred to a less critical command after heavy losses in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and some concerns about his aggressiveness ^[e]
• Aubrey Fitch [r]: U.S. Navy admiral, who was to have commanded the carrier support force for the cancelled relief of Wake Island, whose flagship, USS Lexington (CV-2 was sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea; later commanded South Pacific aviation, was Vice Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy ^[e]