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44 relations: Awa Maru (1899), Awa Province (Tokushima), British rule in Burma, China, Convoy Hi-71, Courts-martial in the United States, Currimao, Destroyer, Elliott Loughlin, Ernest King, Frank Gibney, Hi convoys, Imperial Japanese Navy, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Japan, List of battles and other violent events by death toll, List of ships sunk by submarines by death toll, Mako Guard District, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, MV Wilhelm Gustloff, Nagasaki, National Security Agency, Nippon Yusen, Ocean liner, Peking Man, Penghu, Prisoner of war, Radar, Richard Ponsonby-Fane, Shigenori Tōgō, Shikoku, Simon & Schuster, Singapore, South China Sea, Strategic material, Taiwan Strait, Tokushima Prefecture, Typhoon, United States dollar, United States Government Publishing Office, USS Queenfish (SS-393), Wolfpack (naval tactic), World War II, Yasukuni Shrine.
Awa Maru (1899)
The was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
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Awa Province (Tokushima)
was an old province of Japan in the area that is today a part of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku.
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British rule in Burma
British rule in Burma, also known as British Burma, lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a Province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Convoy Hi-71
was one of the World War II Hi convoys of fast tankers and troop transports from Japan to Singapore.
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Courts-martial in the United States
Courts-martial in the United States are trials conducted by the U.S. military or by state militaries.
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Currimao
, officially the, is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.
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Elliott Loughlin
Charles Elliott Loughlin (February 19, 1910 – October 31, 1989) was an officer of the United States Navy, where he reached the rank of Rear Admiral.
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Ernest King
Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II.
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Frank Gibney
Frank Bray Gibney (September 21, 1924 – April 9, 2006) was an American journalist, editor, writer and scholar.
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Hi convoys
were a numbered series of World War II trade convoys between Japan and Singapore.
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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List of battles and other violent events by death toll
This page lists mortalities from battles and individual military operations or acts of violence, sorted by death toll.
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List of ships sunk by submarines by death toll
Self-propelled torpedoes dramatically increased effectiveness of submarine warships.
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Mako Guard District
The was the major navy base for the Imperial Japanese Navy in Taiwan before and during World War II.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, German officials and military personnel from Gotenhafen (now Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced.
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Nagasaki
() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
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National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Nippon Yusen
is one of the oldest and largest shipping companies in the world.
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Ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans.
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Peking Man
Peking Man, Homo erectus pekinensis (formerly known by the junior synonym Sinanthropus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus.
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Penghu
The Penghu or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Richard Ponsonby-Fane
Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane (8 January 1878 – 10 December 1937) was a British academic, author, and Japanologist.
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Shigenori Tōgō
(Korean: 박무덕, Hanja: 朴茂德, Pak Mudǒk, 10 December 1882 – 23 July 1950) was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-Allied conflict during World War II.
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Shikoku
is the smallest (long and between wide) and least populous (3.8 million) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.
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South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around.
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Strategic material
Strategic material is any sort of raw material that is important to an individual's or organization's strategic plan and supply chain management.
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Taiwan Strait
The Taiwan Strait, or Formosa Strait, is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from mainland China.
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Tokushima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island.
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Typhoon
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.
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USS Queenfish (SS-393)
USS Queenfish (SS/AGSS-393), a ''Balao''-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the queenfish, a small food fish found off the Pacific coast of North America.
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Wolfpack (naval tactic)
The term wolfpack refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic, and by submarines of the United States Navy against Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean in World War II.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yasukuni Shrine
The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, informally known as the, is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Awa_Maru_(1942)
