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  2. List of Royal Navy losses in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.

  3. Naval history of World War II - Wikipedia

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    At the start of World War II, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world, [1] with the largest number of warships built and with naval bases across the globe. [2] It had over 15 battleships and battlecruisers, 7 aircraft carriers, 66 cruisers, 164 destroyers and 66 submarines. [2]

  4. Royal Navy during the Second World War - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.

  5. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter ...

  6. List of United States Navy losses in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Sunk by Japanese aircraft; last US submarine loss of the war. Capelin: SS-289 Balao class: Celebes Sea: Lost after 2 December 1943: Fate unknown: Possibly sunk by naval mine or Japanese minelayer Wakataka. Cisco: SS-290 Balao class: off Mindanao: 28 September 1943: Sunk by Japanese aircraft and gunboat Karatsu (ex-USS Luzon). Corvina: SS-226 ...

  7. United States Navy in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Haberstroh, Jack, ed. SWABBY: World War II Enlisted Sailors Tell It Like It Was (2003) recollections* Hoyt, Edwin. Now Hear This: The Story of American Sailors in World War II (1993) Sowinski, Larry. Action in the Pacific: As Seen by US Navy Photographers During World War 2 (1982) Wukovits, John F. Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington (2011)

  8. British Pacific Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was a Royal Navy formation that saw action against Japan during the Second World War.It was formed from aircraft carriers, other surface warships, submarines and supply vessels of the RN and British Commonwealth navies in November 1944.

  9. Military history of the United States during World War II

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    Only 42 US submarines were sunk in the Pacific, [67] but 3,500 (22%) submariners were killed, the highest casualty rate of any American force in World War II. [68] The force destroyed over half of all Japanese merchant ships, [69] totaling well over five million tons of shipping. [69] Atomic bomb mushroom cloud rising from Hiroshima, 6 August 1945.