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...ea across the Pacific to theUS territories such as the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. Insum, the notion of hemispheric defense, with its expansionac... ...dful of overseas military installations. These includedbases in the Philippine Islands, Guam in the Mariana Islands,Wake Island, Midway Island, and th... ...ands, Guam in the Mariana Islands,Wake Island, Midway Island, and the Hawaiian Islands, all inthe Pacific; and bases in the Panama Canal Zone, Cuba, P... ... Pacific; and bases in the Panama Canal Zone, Cuba, PuertoRico, and the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. By the end of thewar, the United States had e... ... targeted Guam-Saipan (the MarianaIslands), the Bonin-Volcano Islands, and the Ryukyu Islandsfor regular operating bases—in other words, almost half o... ...ther words, almost half of themost important Pacific bases. Significantly, the Ryukyu Is-lands (encompassing Okinawa) were not enclosed by the blue-bo... ... memorandum that the UnitedStates should have exclusive military rights in the Ryukyu Is-lands, Bonin-Volcano Islands, and Manus in the Admiralty Is-l... ...rvices, though its Operations Division didnot at first concur with putting the Ryukyu Islands into theprimary category—a step the Navy and the AAF wer... ...nce, a leading combat commanderin the Pacific during the war, also thought the Ryukyu Islandsshould not be fortified. At a press conference in Manila,...

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... 10 月，第一版内容采用了中文拼音“Diaoyuta ”i ，而就在条目创建后的第三天，就有网络编辑对条目进行了修改，将日文名称“Senkaku Islands（尖阁列岛）”放在前面，给出的理由是“尖阁列岛（钓鱼岛）实际上是被日本控制着的”。之后，该条目名称反复发生争议，一直在“Senkaku ... ...发生争议，一直在“Senkaku Islands”、“PinnacleIslands”（19 世纪西方国家给钓鱼岛起的英文名）、“Diaoyutai Islands”“Diaoyu Islands”“Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands”等命名间来回修改，最后截至 2019 年 1 月 1 ... ...s”“Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands”等命名间来回修改，最后截至 2019 年 1 月 1 日，该条目依然采用日本名称“Senkaku Islands”。事实上，命名问题并不是简单的语言游戏问题，而是承担着建构社会现实的象征功能，其往往和国家战略以及国际舆论场的话语权紧密联系在一起。④... ...游戏问题，而是承担着建构社会现实的象征功能，其往往和国家战略以及国际舆论场的话语权紧密联系在一起。④毫无疑问，维基百科条目以日本名称“Senkaku Islands（尖阁列岛）”直接称呼钓鱼岛，对维护中国国家主权和领土完整非常不利。① 丁洁：《浅析利用维基百科开展中国政治话语对外传播的可行性——以“... ...条目内容，https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan，2018-12-24。③ 参见维基百科（英文版）“Senkaku Islands”条目内容，.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands， 2018-12-24。④ 甘... ...itionson maps, descriptions in official records of Chinese missions to the Ryukyu Kingdom, etc.① 译：由于无人居住的小岛历来被用作海上航行标记，除了在地图上标识地理位置及中国驻琉球王国使者官方记录外，它...

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... a trip through the Central Pacific by Col Claudius H. M.Roberts—“Marshall Islands Japanese Defenses and Battle Damage,”found in the US Army Center fo... ...earl Harbor grewa small command, mostly focused on defense of the Hawaiian Islands and 5Source: The Pacific Theater, Up the Ladde... ... 215 and 216. 13. Ibid., 216. 14. Ibid., 215. 15. W. D. Mission, “Marshall Islands Japanese Defenses and Battle Damage,” US ArmyCenter for US Military... ...an with the same basic mission as its predeces-sor—defense of the Hawaiian Islands.12 General Hale best describes thoseearly days: After the first s... ...ses dug in. Our fighters and bombers were marshaled for air defense. The islands being situated as they are, the pattern of defense as far as airc... ...se home islands in November 1945.222 Okinawa was the largest island in the Ryukyu chain (measuring 60miles long and from two to 18 miles wide) and it ...

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... 15 Bahrain 16 Balearic Islands (see Spain) Bangladesh ... ... British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Solomon Islands (see Solomon Islands) British Virgi... ... Page Canada 12 Canary Islands (see Spain) Cape Verde ... ... Islands (see Spain) Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Centr... ...Ceylon (see Sri Lanka) Chad 48 Channel Islands (see Guernsey and Jersey) Chile ... ... 128Voting strength: (1983 election) Lower Electric power: (including Ryukyus) Civil air: 265 major transport aircraf...

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...ve surveillance of the US missile test range at Kwajalein,in the adjacent Marshall Islands group.$ Although their opinions appearfarfetched---especial... ...ber 1986, 104. 8. Peter Samuel, "Soviets Buying Access to Strategic South Pacific Islands, BakerTells Congress," Defense News, 29 September 1986, 13 ... ...33 ; Caspar W. Weinberger, "We Would WelcomeNew Zealand's Return Anytime," Pacific Islands Monthly 56, no. 12 (December 1985) : 20. 51 . Bryce Harlan... ...4,000 nautical miles east towest from New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific islands to Australia'sCocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. It was mor... ...protection of Australian interests in surrounding maritime areas,offshore islands, and close-by ocean areas and vital choke points ; ... ... the Philippines, and has armed forces and administrative responsibilities in the Ryukyus, and upon the coming into force of Japanese Peace Treaty m...

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...e right wing and slightly 342 Islands crew (4) above. ... ... 03/2053.06.24 23:30LT Bonin Islands Iwo Jima M a USAF KB-29 ... ... 353 / 35854.07.03 Bermuda Islands M a USAF B-36 6 disc-shaped obje... ... 34854.09.28 03:20 Atlantic Ocean West of Azores Islands A a Pan Am DC-6 a huge saucer lit ... ... two pilots55.03.24 14:30 Japan Ryukyu Islands, between Japan and P a Beechcraft a... ... two pilots55.03.24 14:30 Japan Ryukyu Islands, between Japan and P a Beechcraft a hat-sh...

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....[8]Spanish missionaries established schools immediately afterreaching the islands. The Augustinians opened a schoolin Cebu in 1565. TheFranciscans, i... ... Thomasites from 1901 to 1902. These teachers werescattered throughout the islands toestablish barangay schools.[13] The same law established thePhili... ...icial cessation of hostilities and cession of Philippine Islands;  Failure of American relief efforts;  ... ... 902United States military governmentof the Philippine Islands United States military government of the Philippine Is... ... 1898–1902 → ← Flag Location of Philippine Islands in Asia Capital Manila Government Military Military ... ...f, the fast carriers of Halsey's Third Fleet struck hard atFormosa and the Ryukyus in order to forestall any Japanese attempt to reinforce theLuzon ga...

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...itedStates via a troop transport ship for a two-year tour in thePhilippine Islands. 6 From the semidesert of Fort Sill to the humidity of the AirServ... ...uered areas. By June 1942, that defense line included Wakeand the Marshall Islands to the east, Burma and the NetherlandsEast Indies to the west, and—... ...r base. From Rabaul, the Japanese weremoving down the chain of the Solomon Islands and onto thePapuan Peninsula of New Guinea. Just across the Coral S... ... was rapidly taking shape on the Papuan Peninsula andin the nearby Solomon Islands, where on 7 August US Marineslanded at Guadalcanal. Both battles pr... ...dered the Catalinas and other reconnaissanceplanes to search the Trobriand Islands area and the route to Rabaul.Returning crews had reported the plane... ...ry of the Army, through the adjutantgeneral, requested that the Philippine-Ryukyus Command makean effort to locate the wreckage of the plane and ascer...

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...trano, Robert. “How the Sea Lion Got to Okinawa: Once More on the Old Ryukyus Command Patch.” Trading Post ... ...C: 7160518) Descriptors: Army-Insignia; Insignia-Command; Ryukyus Command; USAFWESPAC [179] Robert ... ...ing Post article addressing the Ryukyus Command. This entry provides insight into the Command’s insignia. ... ...n makers in the process. Very informative.C681 Hoffman, Gene. “New Ryukyus Command School SSI.” Trading Post ... ...; Kiska TF With the Imperial Japanese military occupying the Aleutian Islands, U.S. and Canadian leaders assembled forces to repel them. Thi... ...ders assembled forces to repel them. This force eventually retook the islands. Trading Post editors explore the role of the Kiska Task Force and ... ...e United States became a major influence in the Pacific. The Hawaiian Islands became a vital resource for maintaining America’s strategic ro... ...l Air Station Adaka. The Navy used the station to retake the Aleutians Islands from the Imperial Japanese forces. Over the years, Adaka would ... ...Railroad or Railway SWPA Southwest Pacific AreaRYCOM Ryukyus Command SWTG Special Warfare Training ...

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... and the Philippines havehistorically tussled over the region's waterways, islands and atolls.（中國和東南亞國家比如越南、馬來西亞、菲律賓在該地區的水道、島嶼、環礁等問題上歷史性地扭打在一起。）（Wall ... ...亞、菲律賓在該地區的水道、島嶼、環礁等問題上歷史性地扭打在一起。）（Wall StreetJournal. Jul 26, 2010）（43）The islands dispute is heating up again because Chinese officials and scholars ... ...島蜿蜒如虯龍一條, 流現於萬濤之中, 故又稱為“流虯”。14世紀後，日本加入明朝的冊封體制後，開始按照中國對琉球群島的稱謂，確定琉球群島的稱謂為琉球（Ryukyu）。1872年日本強行把琉球王國設置為“琉球藩”時，依然沿用“琉球”這一中國稱謂。1879 年，日本開始有意識廢除“琉球”這一稱謂，其首先... ...與會者就報告中琉球的使用名稱達成一致：廢除以前檔中中文發音的‘Liuchiu’或發音相近的‘Luchu’‘Loo Choo’的稱呼，而決定從此改為以“Ryukyu”來稱。……然而,琉球名稱的變化並不僅僅是一個發音的問題，很明顯，國務院已經克服了早期琉球名稱的不連貫性, 認為該群島不是中國的一部分... ...國的一部分，而是日本的一部分”⑤“二戰結束後，琉球群島被美軍佔領。直到20世紀60年代後期，美國在各種官方檔中對琉球群島的稱謂主要使用日語琉球音譯的‘Ryukyu’，但避免使用“沖繩（Okinawa）”這一日本稱謂。1972 年5月15日，美國將琉球群島“...

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...yan islanders) namedit Habu after a dark, poisonous, pit viper snake indigenous tothe Ryukyu Island chain. Insiders in the Senior Crown pro-gram favor... ...s working on a NASA project using the U-2s to get high altitude air samples over the islands. At dinner at [sic] he Officer’s Club a somewhat offici...

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...Y BOY TO COMPANY PRESIDENT We eventually reached Saipan, one of the large islands in theMarianas chain and a key base for attacking Japan. Within hou... ...ookouts could spot land before we did. At othertimes, our radar might show islands or other large objects farbeyond its normal range. This phenomenon ... ... battle of the war: the bloodycampaign to take Okinawa, largest of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands. This put us in the thick of the deadliest naval action in ... ... of the war: the bloodycampaign to take Okinawa, largest of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands. This put us in the thick of the deadliest naval action in Ameri-c... ...ers, theSaint George arrived on 28 March at Kerama Retto, a string ofsmall islands just off the southwestern coast of Okinawa. Afterdays of shelling a... ...t the FAA. Two Boeing 747s collided on a runway at Tener-ife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people. This is still by farthe deadliest accident in ...

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... Alaska, but he opposed theestablishment of a strong air force in the remote Philippine Islands lest it be easilydestroyed. Patrick believed, however,... ...n bomb trans-seacountries." 153 Mitchell, on the other hand, visualized that strings of islands wouldbe seized so that aircraft based on them might fl... ... 15 March 1933 strengthen theair garrisons of the Panama Canal department, the Hawaiian Islands, and thePhilippines, and that it authorize the organiz... ...nby defending existing possessions and extending those defenses to Natal, the CapeVerde Islands, and Dakar. The second phase was to wage a decisive ai... ...ned that the B-29 force wouldbe usedagainst targets in or adjacent to the Japanese home islands. In March 1943AAF/ACS Plans had begun to study a proje... ...ar East Command was limitedto thedefenseof the geographical region including Japan, the Ryukyus, the Marianas, and thePhilippines. In an interview wit...

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...ion ofour defense responsibilities: “Our line of defense runs throughthe chain of islands fringing the coast of Asia. It starts from thePhilippines an... ...inging the coast of Asia. It starts from thePhilippines and continues through the Ryukyu Archipelago,which includes its main bastion Okinawa. Then it ... ...sion. A hot mission might mean a Soviet intruder hadleft his base in the Sakhalin Islands north of Hokkaido and wasprobing the Japanese air defense ne... ...ystery of thedisappearing pilots and Dragon Lady. Quemoy and Matsu are two small islands in the FormosaStrait between China and Taiwan. Although clos... ...s. Years later, he owned an amphibious airlineflying passengers between Caribbean islands. He was killed in one of theseaircraft. Blair was married to... ...rip from Buenos Aires, a U-2 could fly over the South Atlanticbeyond the Falkland Islands and nearly reach Antarctica. Twicea week, U-2s flying from P...