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    The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was a Royal Navy formation that saw action against Japan during the Second World War. It was formed from aircraft carriers...
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    The Pacific Fleet (Russian: Тихоокеанский флот, romanized: Tikhookeansky flot) is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean. Established in 1731 as...
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  • Pacific Fleet may refer to: Australian Pacific Fleet, an Australian Royal Navy formation / fleet in the Pacific Ocean British Pacific Fleet, a Royal Navy...
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    the Fifth Fleet's ships, the British ships were resubordinated from Spruance's Fifth Fleet to Halsey's Third Fleet. The British Pacific Fleet then constituted...
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  • based on the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious for service in the British Pacific Fleet and comprised 849 Naval Air Squadron flying the Grumman Avenger...
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  • Canadian Fleet Pacific (Maritime Forces Pacific) (HQ Esquimalt, British Columbia) Chinese treasure fleet Beiyang Fleet Nanyang Fleet East Sea Fleet North...
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    formed the British Pacific Fleet. In December 1945 the British Pacific Fleet was disbanded and its forces were absorbed into the East Indies fleet. In 1952...
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    HMS Victorious (R38) (category Use British English from March 2014)
    the invasion moot. The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) commander had agreed to stay for one more day's operations, but the British arrangements could not...
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    formed the British Pacific Fleet. In December 1945 the British Pacific Fleet was disbanded and its forces were absorbed into the East Indies Fleet. In 1952...
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    Battle of Okinawa (category World War II operations and battles of the Pacific theatre)
    transport ships. The British naval contingent accompanied 251 British naval aircraft and included a British Commonwealth fleet with Australian, New Zealand...
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    HMS King George V (41) (category Use British English from November 2013)
    theatres of war, the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific, as part of the British Home Fleet and Pacific Fleets. In May 1941, along with HMS Rodney, King George...
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    Operation Inmate (category Pacific Ocean theater of World War II)
    Operation Inmate was an attack by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese positions on Truk Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean during the Second World War...
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    transfer to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). Euryalus arrived at Sydney on 11 February 1945. She sailed from there on 28 February to the British Forward Base...
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    delayed-action bombs making repairs more difficult. Late in 1944, the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) used the high-altitude performance of its Supermarine Seafires...
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    cruisers, and several smaller warships. During the same period the British Pacific Fleet attacked other targets in the Inland Sea region and sank two escort...
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    Atlantic operations in early 1944. In 1945, Napier was assigned to the British Pacific Fleet, and spent the rest of World War II in the fight against Japan....
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    Implacable-class aircraft carrier (category Use British English from March 2012)
    Subsequently, they were assigned to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). Indefatigable was the first ship to go to the Pacific and attacked Japanese-controlled oil refineries...
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    HMS Duke of York (17) (category Use British English from March 2018)
    ten-and-a-half hours. In 1945, Duke of York was assigned to the British Pacific Fleet as its flagship, but arrived too late to see any action before Japan...
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    Royal Marines commanded Fleet Air Arm squadrons during the course of the war, and with the formation of the British Pacific Fleet were well represented...
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  • HMS Barfleur (D80) (category Use British English from August 2015)
    Barfleur was selected as part of a token British force to remain off Japan while the majority of the British Pacific Fleet withdrew to prepare for Operation...
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    List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy (category Use British English from April 2017)
    Aircraft Carrier Squadron – British Pacific Fleet, East Indies Fleet (1945–1947) 2nd Aircraft Carrier Squadron – Mediterranean Fleet 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron...
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    Lingayen Gulf. The prioritisation of shipyard work in Australia for British Pacific Fleet vessels saw the Australian cruiser sail to England for repairs,...
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    HMS Illustrious (87) (category Use British English from January 2017)
    following year before Illustrious was transferred to the newly formed British Pacific Fleet (BPF). The carrier participated in the early stages of the Battle...
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  • (2011). The British Pacific Fleet: the Royal Navy's most powerful strike force. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1591140443. "British Task Force...
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    HMAS Queenborough (category Use British English from January 2012)
    British Eastern Fleet was split into two forces, The smaller East Indies Fleet remained in the Indian Ocean, while the larger British Pacific Fleet (BPF)...
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    HMS Speaker (D90) (category Use British English from March 2017)
    4 February, Speaker and Slinger were ordered onward to join the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) at Sydney, Australia. While off Western Australia, the two...
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    Transom air raids in 1944. In early 1945, Nepal was reassigned to the British Pacific Fleet, and operated with them for the rest of the war. On her return to...
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    the Fleet Commander. Atlantic Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet (1909–1914, 1919–1932) Battle Cruiser Fleet (1915–19) British Pacific Fleet - Commander-in-Chief...
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  • mercantile crews of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary service. These ships were intended to provide a place where British Pacific Fleet personnel could relax between...
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    The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal...
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