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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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  • (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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    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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    " The deployment of a British fleet to the Pacific was a political matter. The measure was forced on Churchill by the British Chiefs of Staff, not merely...
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    The United Kingdom (British Pacific Fleet), New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and other Allied nations, also contributed forces. Pacific theater Attack on...
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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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    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 Anson (79) (category Use British English from September 2017)
    became the flagship of the 1st Battle Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet. Anson arrived back in British waters on 29 July 1946, spending the next three years...
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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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    HMS Howe (32) (category Use British English from February 2017)
    battleships to Alexandria. Howe was also sent to the Pacific and attached to the British Pacific Fleet (Task Force 113), where she provided naval bombardments...
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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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    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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  • the British carriers, but the British combat air patrol shoots them all down. In the strikes on January 24 and 29 combined, the British Pacific Fleet has...
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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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    2nd Carrier Air Group (category Fleet Air Arm groups)
    air group of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was initially formed in June 1945, for service in the British Pacific Fleet, until disbanding during the...
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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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    8th Carrier Air Group (category Fleet Air Arm groups)
    carrier air group of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was formed in June 1945, for service in the British Pacific Fleet, until disbanding the following year...
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    HMS King George V (41) (category Use British English from November 2013)
    of war, the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific, as well as part of the British Home Fleet and Pacific Fleets. In May 1941, along with HMS Rodney, King...
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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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    Kamikaze attacks was demonstrated by various carriers attached to the British Pacific Fleet ... —  The concept went to finding a larger carrier that could support...
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    Illustrious-class aircraft carrier (category Use British English from March 2012)
    1940 and 1941 and all three took part in the large actions of the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. The later two ships of the Implacable class were also built...
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