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But he still had time to get back and join the land-based planes in defending the transports.

The following day, five Japanese twin-engine, land-based planes attacked the formation.

Ozawa also counted on about 500 land-based planes at Guam and other islands.

During the late 1930s and early 1940s, land-based planes lacked sufficient flying range for Atlantic crossings.

The Navy also has land-based planes for dropping depth bombs on enemy submarines.

As landing operations progressed, Americans expected the Japanese to strike vigorously at the transports with land-based planes.

In any case, there are high risks in taking the fleet within range of Soviet bases, heavily protected by land-based planes, submarines and missiles.

Repeated U.S. raids destroyed the Japanese land-based planes.

On 2 April the transport joined the screen of escort aircraft carriers loaded with the first land-based planes to be sent to Okinawa.

By 8 March, land-based planes were present in sufficient strength to allow the ship to return to Ulithi to get ready for the Okinawa campaign.

As first American carrier planes, then long-distance land-based planes began raids on the Philippines, the guerrillas became important for yet another reason.

Can't some of that burden be shared with cheaper alternatives, like land-based planes, diesel submarines or less costly nuclear submarines?

This last big amphibious operation of the war, unlike Iwo Jima, took place within range of Japanese land-based planes.

IJNAS land-based planes - transports, heavy bombers and flying boats - were used to deliver the paratroopers.

Several seaborne helicopters were joined by land-based planes flying out of Shearwater, a Canadian Forces base at Dartmouth, across Halifax harbor from the provincial capital.

This mission was the first land-based plane bombing of the homeland of the Japanese Empire, and the first raid since the Doolittle Raid in April 1944.

In the post war period the availability of large paved runways and the greatly expanded performance of land-based planes meant that both commercial and military use of seaplanes was much reduced.

Air attacks in support of the upcoming U.S. amphibious landings in the Mariana Islands begin with a raid by Southwest Pacific land-based planes against Palau.

Allied carrier and land-based planes attacked the Japanese ships, airfields, and port facilities on the island of New Britain to protect the Allied amphibious invasion of Bougainville.

Meanwhile, V. Adm. Onishi Takijiro had directed his First Air Fleet, 80 land-based planes, against U.S. carriers, whose planes were attacking airfields on Luzon.

Early the following morning, 19 June, aircraft from Mitscher's carriers headed for Guam to neutralize that island for the coming battle and in a series of dogfights, destroyed many Japanese land-based planes.

At this time the decision was reached to send all the B-17s to Del Monte Field on Mindanao to get them out of range of direct attack by Japanese land-based planes on Formosa.

As aircraft such as the Short Solent and Short Sunderland were replaced by land-based planes, the first airport was opened at Mangere, supplanting earlier airfields at Ardmore and Whenuapai.

On 10 December 1941, the first major setback to British power in the region was the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by Japanese land-based planes.

On the morning of 19 June, Yorktown aircraft began strikes on Japanese air bases on Guam in order to deny them to their approaching carrier-based air and to keep the land-based planes out of the fray.