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Landings
on Guadalcanal and Tulagi
7-9 August 1942 |
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Capture
and Defense of Guadalcanal
16 August 1942 - 8 February 1943 |
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Battle
of the Eastern Solomons
23-24 August 1942 |
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New
Georgia Group Operations: New Guinea, Rendova, Vangunu
Invasion
30 June - 31 August 1943 |
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Gilbert
Islands Operation: Tarawa and Makin
19 November - 8 December 1943 |
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Bismark
Archipelago Operations Kavieng Strike
25 December 1943 |
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Marshall
islands Operation: Invasion of Kwajalein and Majuro
Atolls
29 January - 8 February 1944 |
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Task
Force Strikes: Truk, 16-17 February 1944
Marianas, 21-22 February 1944
Palau, Yap, Ulithi and Woleai, 30 March - 1 April
1944
Truk, Satawan and Ponape, 29 April - 1 March 1944
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Western
New Guinea Operations:
Hollandia 21-24 April 1944 |
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Marianas
Operation:
Invasion of Saipan, 11-24 June 1944
Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944
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Leyte
Operation:
Attacks on Luzon
13-14, 19-25 November 1944; 14-16 December 1944
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Luzon
Operation:
Luzon, 6-7 January 1945
Formosa, 3-4, 9, 15, 21 January 1945
China Coast, 12, 16 January 1945
Nansei Shoto, 22 January 1945 |
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Iwo
Jima Operation:
Invasion of Iwo Jima, 5 February, 1 March 1945
Fifth and Third Fleet raids on Honshu and Nansei
Shoto,
15-16 February, 25 February - 1 March 1945
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Okinawa
Invasion:
17 March - 27 April 1945 |
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Third
Fleet Operations:
Bombardment and Air Strikes on Japanese Home Islands
10 July - 15 August 1945 |