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  2. 5 days ago · Missouri, American battleship, scene of the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945, that formally ended World War II. The USS Missouri, one of four Iowa-class battleships that were completed during the war, numbered among the largest warships afloat, being 887 feet (270 metres) long and displacing.

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  3. 2 days ago · Vice-Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa's "Northern Force", built around the four aircraft carriers of the 3rd Carrier Division (Zuikaku—the last survivor of the six carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941—and the light carriers Zuihō, Chitose, and Chiyoda), included two World War I battleships partially converted to carriers (Hyūga and Ise ...

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  4. 1 day ago · An organization on a quest to find and memorialize all 52 U.S. submarines lost during World War II has located the wreck of the USS Harder, a sub credited with sinking the most enemy warships ...

  5. 1 day ago · 24 May 2024, 08:01 BST. The wreckage of a US Navy submarine that sank the most Japanese warships during World War Two has been found in the South China Sea, some 80 years after it was sunk by ...

  6. 2 days ago · 248 aircraft destroyed [5] 3,057 killed [6] 37 captured [7] 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 the Empire of Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

  7. 1 day ago · Fri, May 24, 2024, 12:07 AM EDT · 3 min read. 11. The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol ...

  8. 3 days ago · One of many notable losses during World War II was the sinking of the USS Lexington (CV-2). This aircraft carrier, which played a crucial role in the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, took part in numerous ...

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