Eidws Study Guide Pg 8

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Battle of Coral Sea

Back 1

•Date: 4-8 May 1942
•Where: Pacific
Significance:
•Strategic Victory for Allies
•1st Carrier Vs. Carrier
•It was first step for Japanese to invade Australia
•US Carrier Lexington was sunk while US Carrier Yorktown was damaged.
Japanese never threatened Australia again

Front 2

Battle of Midway

Back 2

•Date: 4-7 June 1942
•Where: Pacific
Significance:
•Turning point of war
•Brought Equity of forces between Allies & Japan
•US Knew of attack on Midway because of Code Breaking.
•4 Japanese carriers were sunk & US Carrier Yorktown was sunk.
3 US Carriers were: Enterprise, Hornet, & Yorktown

Front 3

Battle of Guadalcanal

Back 3

•Date: August 1942- February 1943
•Where: Pacific
Significance:
•1st major offensive actions for the allies/ Marked Transition into offensive strategic
•Fought 3 major land battles & 7 Naval Battles

Front 4

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Back 4

• Date: 23-26 October 1944
• Where: Pacific
Significance:
• Part of Philippines Battle Campaign
• 4 Major Naval Battles
• Japanese First Kamikaze Attack (Suicide A/C)
• Japan was cut off its major supplies in the south & lost 100 trained pilot which was never replaced

Front 5

D Day-Landing

Back 5

•Date: 6 June 1944 on Tuesday at 0630
•Where: Europe/English Channel
Significance:
•Refers to Allied Invasion to Normandy Beaches in France.
•Biggest Military Deception operation
•General Eisenhower was the US Commander
•160,000 troops landed & 5,000 ships were involved

Front 6

USS Liberty

Back 6

•Date: 8 June 1967
•Where: East of Mediterranean
Significance:
•It was during 6 Days Israel-Arab War
•It was attacked by Israel’s Fighters & Torpedo boats.
•34 Men Killed
•It constitutes the largest loss of life in American Cryptological History.

Front 7

USS Pubelo

Back 7

•Date: 23 January 1968
•Where: Off the Coast of N.K in International water
Significance:
•1 Man Died 3 Men wounded
•82 Men were held captive for 11 months
•Constituted the largest single loss of sensitive material.

Front 8

USS Stark

Back 8

•Date: 17 May 1987
•Where: In the Persian Gulf
Significance:
•During Iraq-Iran war
•An Iraq A/C attacked the ship with 2 anti-surface missiles
•37 American sailors died
•The ship failed to defend itself.

Front 9

EC-121

Back 9

•Date: 15 April 1969
•Where: Over Sea of japan
Significance:
•Was shot down by North Korean
•31 Americans on plan died (8 officers & 23 enlisted)
•9 Of the crew were naval Security Group technicians (CTs) & linguists in Russian & Korean
•Plane belongs to VQ-1 Squadron

Front 10

Hanian Island

Back 10

•Date: 01 April 2001
•Where: 70 miles away of Hainan
Significance:
•Collision in the air between US Navy EP-3E & a Chinese Fighter plan J-8II
•EP-3E had 26 minutes to carry out Emergency plan including sensitive material
•24 Crewmembers were detained & integrated by Chinese government until a letter of apology was issued by President George Bush.
•Plane belongs to VQ-1

Front 11

Landing at Inchon

Back 11

•Date: 15 September 1950
•Where: West Coast of South Korea
Significance:
•N.K invaded S.K
•General MacArthur was the Commander.
•Landing at Inchon would enable UN to mount major attack on Seoul, major roads & rail links in NKPA’s line of communication
•The highest tides occurred in mid of month.
•Chromite was code name
•Intelligence was a key

Front 12

Space Missions
(5)

Back 12

•Mercury 3: May 1961/Alan Shepard/ First US manned space flight
•Gemini 3 : March 1965/ John W. Young/ First US 2 man space mission
•Apollo 11: July 1969/Neil Armstrong/First manned lunar landing
•Apollo17: December 1972/USN 7th & final Lunar landing mission
•STS-1: April 1981/John W. Young/ First orbital test flight of space shuttle.