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	USS Yorktown (CV-5) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yorktown subsequently returned to Pearl Harbor and replenished there before she put to sea on 14 February, bound for the (A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers) Coral Sea.
		Word of the Japanese operation prompted Admiral Brown to change the objective of TF 11's strike from Rabaul to the Salamaua-Lae sector.
		See (additional info and facts about USS Yorktown) USS Yorktown for other Navy ships of the same name.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_yorktown_(cv-5)4.htm (5673 words)

	The Grumman F4F Wildcat
		Procedure was to fly Wildcats in tight groups of three, which limited the Wildcat's maneuverability and left it at a disadvantage against the Zeke.
		Later in the month, the carrier LEXINGTON attempted to launch a strike on Rabaul, the Japanese stronghold far to the south on the island of New Britain.
		The Japanese were at a disadvantage, since Guadalcanal was distant from their main base at Rabaul, giving them a long supply line that would prove painfully vulnerable to attack, as well as stretching the range of their ground-based aircraft to the limit.
	www.vectorsite.net /avwcat.html (7473 words)

	Edward O'Hare
		The O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, and USS O'Hare were named in his honor.
		When he finished his naval aviation training, he was assigned to VF-3, USS Saratoga's fighter squadron.
		While still 400 miles from the harbour at Rabaul, Lexington was discovered by a Japanese flying boat and a group of Japanese torpedo planes attacked the task force.
	theinfrequentflyer.com /edward-o-hare.php (473 words)

	KWCC Biography - MacArthur
		General Douglas MacArthur, was commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, commander of the Allied Forces during the occupation of Japan, and commander of United Nations (U.N.) forces during the first nine months of the Korean War.
		Bypassing Japanese strongholds (such as Rabaul) and cutting off supplies to the enemy from the Japanese home islands to the north, MacArthur’s armies leapfrogged through the Solomon, Bismarck, and Admiralty islands back toward their destination of the Philippine Islands.
		MacArthur was to lead American forces in the invasion of the Japanese home islands, and he was in the process of preparing for that impending and horrific operation when the atomic bomb brought an abrupt and decisive end to the war.
	korea50.army.mil /history/biographies/macarthur.shtml (2585 words)

	OCEANS ENTERPRISES - CAVE DIVING BOOKS - UNDERWATER BOOKS, DIVING BOOKS.
		For anyone who had visited Rabaul and enjoyed the magnificent beauty of the harbour and the surrounding volcanos, it was a devastating to read of the eruptions in 1994.
		Within a day, the beauty of swaying palms on a green landscape boredered by blue water was destroyed in a wash of grey ash.
		Rabaul will regain its beauty, but Sue Lauer's dramatic images will remind us of what might again be.
	www.oceans.com.au /oeoutp.html (12594 words)

	ipedia.com: Pacific War Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hong Kong fell on December 25 and US bases on Guam and Wake Island were lost at around the same time.
		January saw the invasions of Burma, the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the capture of Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Rabaul.
		The surrender was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander, with representatives of each Allied nation, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu.
	www.ipedia.com /pacific_war_1.html (2573 words)

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		Disc 2: The Pacific Theater of Operations : Cartwheel : The Reduction of Rabaul / by John Miller Jr.
		[1st Printing] USS California "The Golden Grizzly" : Final Voyage / edited by Lt Dargis.
		The Victors : Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II / by Stephen E Ambrose.
	www.milhist.net /reference/biblio.txt (11629 words)

	World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Operation OLYMPIC (the invasion of Japan) VS. KETSU-GO (Japanese resistance to Olympic)
		USS AUGUSTA (CA-31) - Operation Torch - Photo and info
		U.S.S. Sperry (AS12): First ship christened after Pearl Harbor
	members.aol.com /TeacherNet/WWII.html (2533 words)

	1943 in History
		January 30 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
		April 16 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem Netherlands (85 killed)
		April 17 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
	www.brainyhistory.com /years/1943.html (5266 words)

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