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The ships arrived safely thereafter in Tripoli. [3] Oceania and its sister ship were part of another heavily guarded convoy, which left Taranto, Italy bound for Tripoli, while carrying Italian troops for the campaign in Northern Africa. On 18 September 1941, while 112 kilometres (70 mi) northeast of Tripoli, four submarines laid in wait to ...
Western Oceania was a major site of conflict in World War II as the Japanese Empire sought to expand southwards. Since 1945 the region has been mostly at peace, although Melanesia has suffered from Indonesian expansionism in some areas and civil wars and coups in others. The Australian Defence Force is by far the largest military force in ...
List of codenames of naval and land based operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II including Japan, Oceania, and the Pacific Rim. Axis A-Go ...
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [36] was the theater of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies in East and South East Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania.
The launch, about two months earlier than scheduled, was a significant event with the ship's bows decorated with flags of the two nations during which Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman of the Maritime Commission, delivering an address and his wife sponsoring the ship and Sir Arthur Salter representing the British purchaser and Henry J ...
A number of ships have been named Oceania, including: SS Oceania (1907), an Austro-Hungarian ocean liner, and World War 1 hospital ship; SS Oceania (1909), an Italian ocean liner, built for La Veloce [1] [2] MV Oceania (1932), an Italian Line passenger liner, sunk on 18 September 1941 [3]
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The rising sun in the Pacific, 1931 – April 1942. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06973-0. Obeyesekere, Gananath (1992). The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05752-4. Obeyesekere, Gananath (1997).