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By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: May 16, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — On Sept. 2, 1945, the deadliest war in history officially ended on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri with Japan's unconditional surrender. More than 3, 000 service members and dignitaries—most of them Missouri crew members—jammed onto every bit of available real estate to watch the signing. Upwards of 250 allied ships were in Tokyo Bay. More than 1,000 fighters and bombers flew over late in the ceremony in a show of force. It was history being made on an unprecedented scale. A tota...

US likely to boost military presence in Indo-Pacific By Hu Yumin | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-15 08:33 The CNS Liaoning aircraft carrier leads a fleet during a People's Liberation Army Navy training mission in the South China Sea in 2016. [Photo by Mo Xiaoliang/For China Daily] The United States has made clear its intention to strengthen its presence in the Indo-Pacific region. While former US secretary of the navy Kenneth Braithwaite has reiterated his proposal to reconstitute the US First Fleet, which was active from 1943 to 1973 in the Western Pacifi...

CHINA: Learning From 1941 Japan  May 11, 2021: Since the 1990s the United States has moved most of its fleet to the Pacific. This was to deal with the growing Chinese naval threat, as well as continuing problems with North Korea and Iran. From 1945 to 2016 the U.S. Seventh Fleet, based in Japan, controlled American naval operations in the West Pacific. In 2016 the Third Fleet took charge of western portions of the Central and South Pacific while Seventh Fleet the deals with North Korea, northern China and Russia. One things that brought the Third Fleet...

The US Navy has gone though many changes since the 1990s, few of them good and, until recently, not very obvious to the outsider Until the 2020 covid19 epidemic, the navy was able to keep its ships appearing well taken care of, even though years of o

USNI News Search for: Home » Budget Industry » New Navy Fleet Commanders in Pacific, Middle East Nominated; New Picks for N9, Inspector General New Navy Fleet Commanders in Pacific, Middle East Nominated; New Picks for N9, Inspector General April 15, 2021 3:04 PM The White House has put forward nominees to lead the Navy’s two fleets in the Pacific and the fleet in the Middle East, as well as the service’s chief requirements officer and inspector general, the Pentagon announced this week. Vice Adm. Scott D. Conn Vice Adm. Scott Conn, current commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet, was nominated to ...