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1. Battle of HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse against Japanese airplanes on 10 December 1941; both the British battleship and the battlecruiser were sunk. The first time in history that a battleship succumbed to aircraft while at sea and fighting back.
2. Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942; greatest clash of cruisers in WWII.
3. Battle of the Coral Sea; history's first clash of aircraft carriers.
4. Battle of Midway; history's first decisive clash of aircraft carriers.
5. Battle of Savo Island; the US Navy's worst defeat "at sea" in it's history.
6. Battle of Guadalcanal; nearly a dozen sea battles fought around those islands: From Iron Bottom Sound, to Friday the 13th, to Santa Cruz, to Tassafaronga.
7. Battle of the Atlantic; Germany's "Guerre de Course" (sinking of merchant vessels) against allied shipping.
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their were no battles within the mainland.
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