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    Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (category Naval history of Japan)
    (Sasebo) Naval District Forces: 11th Escort Squadron: DD-152 Yamagiri; DD-153 Yūgiri; DD-154 Amagiri (Yokosuka) 12th Escort Squadron: DD-158 Umigiri; DE-229...
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  • the First Naval District Shigetarō Shimada: Commandant, Yokosuka and Kure Naval Districts Mitsumasa Yonai: commanded Yokosuka Naval District Mitsumasa...
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    ten years, Kitty Hawk was the forward-deployed carrier at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. In October 2008, she was replaced in this role by George...
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    military bases still remain in Kanagawa, including Camp Zama (Army), Yokosuka Naval Base, Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Navy). In 1945, Kanagawa was the 15th most...
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    decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious. — George Washington 15 November 1781, to Marquis de Lafayette...
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    Fleet Escort Force (category Naval history of Japan)
    Force command center is located in the Funakoshi district of Yokosuka base (7-73, Funakoshi-cho, Yokosuka city, Kanagawa prefecture), and the commander of...
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    Headquarters Yokosuka, United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan DSO Pacific Sasebo, United States Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan DSO Pacific Guam, Naval Base...
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  • of Japan – Yokosuka, Kanagawa Japan National Defense Medical College – Tokorozawa, Saitama Japan Coast Guard Academy – Kure, Hiroshima Naval Academy Etajima...
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    Soemu Toyoda (category Japanese naval attachés)
    reassigned (i.e. demoted) from the Supreme War Council to command of Yokosuka Naval District.[citation needed] After the death of Admiral Mineichi Koga, Toyoda...
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    California before enlisting in the Naval Reserve on 17 February 1941 at Long Beach, Calif. After his initial duty at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base Long Beach...
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    Yokosuka, Kanagawa Nagiridani Dependent Housing Area, Sasebo, Nagasaki Naval Air Facility Naha, Naha, Okinawa Naval Air Facility Oppama, Yokosuka, Kanagawa...
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    States Fleet Activities Yokosuka Naval Support Facility Redzikowo Naval Support Facility Deveselu Singapore Area Coordinator Busan Naval Base, Busan, Gyeongnam...
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    Staff and the Yokosuka Naval District, followed by posting to the corvette Yamato and cruiser Naniwa. He subsequently served as a naval attache to Korea...
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    Japanese battleship Hiei (category Ships built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal)
    heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Laid down in 1911 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Hiei was formally commissioned in 1914. She patrolled off the...
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    USS Gridley (DLG-21) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    back to the Western Pacific 10 July 1965. Stopping at Pearl Harbor and Yokosuka en route, she steamed to the South China Sea to support aircraft carriers...
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    reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations. It is responsible for the operation and management of all Naval installations worldwide through eleven...
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    USS Oriskany (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    September 1952, to aid United Nations forces in Korea. She arrived at Yokosuka on 17 October and joined Task Force 77 off the Korean Coast on 31 October...
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    Japanese cruiser Nachi (category Ships built by Kure Naval Arsenal)
    political decision, the partially completed cruiser was sent to Yokosuka for the coronation naval review for Emperor Hirohito on 4 December. Afterwards, she...
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    Japanese Navy Aviation Bureau (1936), China Area Fleet (1938) and Yokosuka Naval District (1940). He was promoted to full admiral on 15 November 1939. Oikawa...
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    inspection Yokosuka Naval Base, now JMSDF Yokosuka Naval Base Sasebo Naval Base, was Sasebo Naval Arsenal now United States Fleet Activities Sasebo Naval Base...
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    Japanese battleship Kongō (category Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan)
    before arriving at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 5 November, where she was placed in First Reserve. In January 1914, she docked at Kure Naval Base for armament...
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    Mine Warfare Force (Japan) (category Naval history of Japan)
    each district maritime security headquarters became the Yokosuka District Force. It was incorporated into the Yokosuka District Force, Yokosuka, Hakodate...
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    1001st Kōkutai 1021st Kōkutai 1081st Kōkutai Miscellaneous Yokosuka Naval District 11th Naval Air Arsenal 11th Air Fleet Kamikaze Azusa group (picked from...
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    intends for the Sasebo Combined Landing Force, as well as the Yokosuka 1st Special Naval Landing Force as a paratrooper unit. The Sasebo Combined Special...
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    national hero. His flagship Mikasa has been preserved as a museum ship in Yokosuka Harbour. On 8 February 1904, destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched...
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    1926. He joined the Naval District of Yokosuka in 1927, then served as an instructor at the Torpedo Naval Service School and the Naval Gunnery School. He...
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  • provisionally attached to the Yokosuka Naval District that day. She was launched on 29 November 1943 and was attached to the Kure Naval District on 23 April 1944....
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    Japanese aircraft carrier Unryū (category Ships built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal)
    on the starboard aft retractable radio mast. Unryū was laid down at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on 1 August 1942 and launched on 25 September 1943. Upon commissioning...
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    de Pineda in 1519, as he discovered the lush semitropical bay on the Western Christian feast day of Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi is home to Naval Air...
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    USS Douglas H. Fox (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    from Seattle on 12 September 1927, and after two months at the Fifth Naval District at Norfolk, Virginia, joined the battleship USS New York on 5 November...
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