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OFF LIMITS by kazu saito

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Swamp Man - U.S. Forces (Remco)

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Commando Hank and Rapid Attack Assault Jet - U.S. Forces (Remco)

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Brushfire - U.S. Forces (Remco)

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Remember the Battle of Midway: June 1942.

Midway was a catastrophic defeat from which the Imperial Japanese Navy never fully recovered. Much of the credit goes to the codebreakers who revealed the Japanese plan to ambush U.S. forces in time for the Allies to plan a counter-ambush. The Japanese plan to split American forces also failed.

The U.S. then launched a major air assault on the Japanese carriers. The TBF Avenger torpedo bombers were intercepted by Japanese Zeroes and decimated, but the SBD Dauntless dive bombers attacking afterward got through. They arrived just as the Japanese planes were refueling and rearming on deck. Three of four Japanese carriers were destroyed, tilting the course of the war against Japan.

The Navy will commemorate the Battle of Midway this year from 3 JUNE to 7 JUNE. Please use our Commemoration Toolkit for messaging, graphics

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Remember the D-Day invasion: June 1944.

The largest amphibious operation in history involved more than 5,000 ships landing Allied troops on a heavily-defended 50-mile stretch of Normandy coastline, while thousands more took part in an airborne assault.

A major deception operation fooled the Germans into thinking that the landings were a feint, and resistance was light at four out of five landing sites. On the fifth, Omaha Beach, U.S. forces came under heavy fire and 2,000 died as they fought to break out of the beachhead. The Germans failed to organize rapidly to meet the threat. Within a week, the Allies had landed more than 300,000 troops in Normandy.

5 Things You May Not Know About D-Day

The bravery demonstrated by the service members who stormed Normandy on June 6, 1944, is legendary, but there is much that people don't know

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Remembering the Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 1944.

The largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf off the coast of the Philippines, was another step in the U.S. advance toward the Japanese home islands. All available Japanese forces were thrown into the area, but the separate units failed to unite, resulting in several actions scattered over a wide area.

All four Japanese light carriers were sunk, as were three battleships. Leyte Gulf also marked the first use of a desperate new tactic: the escort carrier USS St. Louis was sunk after a Japanese kamikaze carrying a bomb deliberately crashed on its deck.

[More Here: Are Light Carriers Poised to Make a Comeback?]