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The Formosa Air Battle (Japanese: 台湾沖航空戦, lit. 'Battle of the Taiwan Sea', Chinese: 臺灣空戰), 12–16 October 1944, was a series of large-scale aerial engagements between carrier air groups of the United States Navy Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 38) and Japanese land-based air forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
Carriers in the Pacific theater (1939–1945) [edit] Wartime carrier operations in the Pacific began with Japan using carriers to provide combat support for her invasions of China. Japan innovated the coordinated, massed use of aircraft from multiple carriers to establish air superiority wherever they struck. [ 22 ]
The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was defined by the Allied powers ' Pacific Ocean Area command, which included most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, while mainland Asia was excluded, as were the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo ...
Goodyear FG Corsair - Carrier-based fighter/bomber. General Motors FM Wildcat - Carrier-based fighter. Great Lakes BG - Target drone (withdrawn as carrier bomber) Grumman F3F - Carrier-based fighter. Grumman F4F Wildcat - Carrier-based fighter. Grumman XF5F Skyrocket - Carrier-based prototype fighter.
1960 Uruguayan Navy [ 2 ] The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it was the United States Navy 's dominant fighter in the second half of the Pacific War. In gaining that role, it prevailed over its faster ...
Second Sino-Japanese War. The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized:Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign ...
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [ 48 ] was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino ...
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. [7][8][9] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of ...