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- Air operations against North Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Sicily [r]: In the Mediterranean Theater and Italian Campaign of the Second World War, an Allied invasion of Sicily night of 9 July, 1943, ending 17 August in an Allied victory with the Axis troops either surrendering or withdrawing to the mainland [e]
- Battle of Surigao Strait [r]: Fought in October 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the last naval engagement between forces based around battleships [e]
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
- Destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf of Tonkin incident [r]: An incident or incidents between U.S. and North Vietnamese naval forces in August 1964, the details of which remain unclear to both sides; perceived as an attack on U.S. forces and used by Lyndon B. Johnson to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing large-scale combat involvement in the Vietnam War [e]
- Honor Harrington [r]: The central character in an extensive science fiction series created by David Weber, with considerable personality resemblances, although far higher technology, to Horatio Hornblower [e]
- Littoral Combat Ship [r]: Lighter than a U.S. destroyer or frigate, (but heavier than a corvette or fast attack craft) relatively low-cost United States Navy warship type, capable of ocean crossings but optimized for coastal operations including mine warfare (MIW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASW). [e]
- Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. [e]
- Marine navigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval vessel designation code [r]: A system of alphabetic type codes for various naval vessels, widely used worldwide but with the specific name of a ship type subject to national usage [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
- Navy [r]: A military force organized primarily for missions on, under, or above bodies of water [e]
- Ocean escort [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swatow-class [r]: A Chinese gunboat derivative of a Soviet torpedo boat, operated by North Vietnam during the Gulf of Tonkin incident [e]
- Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it [e]
- Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. [e]
- Warship [r]: A ship designed to employ weapons and sensors in direct naval warfare [e]
- Thomas Kinkaid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- USS Missouri (BB-63) [r]: U.S. Navy Iowa-class battleship, on whose deck the Japanese surrender was signed; last class of battleships that operated in any navy. She is now a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (U.S. state). [e]
- Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it [e]
- Winston Churchill [r]: British Prime Minister and war leader during the Second World War from 1940 to 1945; second term from 1951 to 1955. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a historian. [e]