title: William H. Buracker
HMS Pioneer (R76)
Bombing of Yawata (June 1944)
Boeing XF8B
Imperial Japanese Navy Land Forces
HMS Implacable (R86)
Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike
Central District Army
Doolittle Raid
HMS Indefatigable (R10)
sentences: William Houck Buracker (July 25, 1897 – March 7, 1977) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who served as commanding officer of the USS "Princeton" during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a member of the task force that carried out the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, and was the operations officer for the carrier task force that transported planes for the Doolittle Raid.
 After leaving the Navy, Buracker worked as an engineer and was Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Works from 1947 to 1949.
HMS "Pioneer" was a "Colossus"-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II.
 She was modified whilst under construction into an aircraft maintenance carrier.
 The ship arrived in Australia in mid-1945 to support operations by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese forces.
 She supported the British attacks on the Japanese Home Islands from mid-June until the end of the war in August from a base in the Admiralty Islands.
 The ship and her facilities were used to help repair Hong Kong's infrastructure in late 1945 and she returned to the UK in early 1946.
 "Pioneer" was immediately placed in reserve upon her arrival and she was sold in 1954 for scrap.
The Bombing of Yawata on the night of 15/16 June 1944 was the first air raid on the Japanese home islands conducted by United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) strategic bombers during World War II.
 The raid was undertaken by 75 B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers staging from bases in China.
 Only 47 of these aircraft bombed the raid's primary target, the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata in northern Kyūshū, and little damage was caused.
 Five B-29s were lost in accidents during the operation and two were destroyed by Japanese aircraft.
The Boeing XF8B (Model 400) was a single-engine aircraft developed by Boeing during World War II to provide the United States Navy a long-range shipboard fighter aircraft.
 The XF8B was intended for operation against the Japanese home islands from aircraft carriers outside the range of Japanese land-based aircraft.
 Designed for various roles including interceptor, long-range escort fighter, dive-bomber, and torpedo bomber, the final design embodied a number of innovative features in order to accomplish the various roles.
 Despite its formidable capabilities, the XF8B-1 was fated never to enter series production.
Imperial Japanese Navy Land Forces of World War II were ground combat units consisting of navy personnel organized for offensive operations and for the defense of Japanese naval facilities both overseas and in the Japanese home islands.
 It consisted of the following:
HMS "Implacable" was an "Implacable"-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II.
 Upon completion in 1944, she was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and attacked targets in Norway for the rest of the year.
 She was subsequently assigned to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) where she attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk and targets in the Japanese Home Islands in 1945.
 The ship was used to repatriate liberated Allied prisoners of war (PoWs) and soldiers after the Japanese surrender, for the rest of the year.
 "Implacable" returned home in 1946 and became the Home Fleet's deck-landing training carrier, a role that lasted until 1950.
 She briefly served as the flagship of Home Fleet in 1950.
 During this time she participated in many exercises and made a number of port visits in Western Europe.
 She was placed in reserve in 1950 and converted into a training ship in 1952, and served as flagship of the Home Fleet Training Squadron.
 The ship was considered for a major modernisation in 1951–52, but this was rejected as too expensive and time-consuming.
 "Implacable" was decommissioned in 1954 and sold for scrap the following year.
Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike (Japanese: テイルズ オブ ヴェスペリア 〜The First Strike〜 , Hepburn: Teiruzu Obu Vesuperia ~The First Strike~ ) is a 2009 Japanese animated film by Production I.G.
 It is directed by Kanta Kamei and written by Reiko Yoshida, featuring the voice talents of Kōsuke Toriumi, Mamoru Miyano, Mai Nakahara, Rika Morinaga, and Eiji Takemoto.
 The film is the prequel to the Namco Tales Studio's role-playing game "Tales of Vesperia" and the first animated feature film in the "Tales" series.
 "Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike" revolves around the two knights, Yuri Lowell and Flynn Scifo, from the Niren Corps as they protect a town from monsters with their allies.
The Central District Army (中部軍 , Chubu gun ) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of the Japanese home islands during the Pacific War.
 It was one of the regional commands in the Japanese home islands reporting to the General Defense Command.
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
 It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale.
 The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle of the United States Army Air Forces.
HMS "Indefatigable" was an "Implacable"-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II.
 She was completed in 1944, and her aircraft made several attacks that year against the  , inflicting only light damage; they also raided targets in Norway.
 The ship was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) at the end of the year and attacked Japanese-controlled oil refineries in Sumatra in January 1945 before joining the American forces in March as they prepared to invade the island of Okinawa in Operation Iceberg.
 "Indefatigable" and the BPF joined the Americans in attacking the Japanese Home Islands in July and August.
 Following the end of hostilities she visited ports in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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 William Houck Buracker (July 25, 1897 – March 7, 1977) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who served as commanding officer of the USS "Princeton" during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a member of the task force that carried out the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, and was the operations officer for the carrier task force that transported planes for the Doolittle Raid.
 After leaving the Navy, Buracker worked as an engineer and was Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Works from 1947 to 1949. 

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 HMS "Pioneer" was a "Colossus"-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II.
 She was modified whilst under construction into an aircraft maintenance carrier.
 The ship arrived in Australia in mid-1945 to support operations by the British Pacific Fleet against Japanese forces.
 She supported the British attacks on the Japanese Home Islands from mid-June until the end of the war in August from a base in the Admiralty Islands.
 The ship and her facilities were used to help repair Hong Kong's infrastructure in late 1945 and she returned to the UK in early 1946.
 "Pioneer" was immediately placed in reserve upon her arrival and she was sold in 1954 for scrap. 

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 The Bombing of Yawata on the night of 15/16 June 1944 was the first air raid on the Japanese home islands conducted by United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) strategic bombers during World War II.
 The raid was undertaken by 75 B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers staging from bases in China.
 Only 47 of these aircraft bombed the raid's primary target, the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata in northern Kyūshū, and little damage was caused.
 Five B-29s were lost in accidents during the operation and two were destroyed by Japanese aircraft. 

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 Imperial Japanese Navy Land Forces of World War II were ground combat units consisting of navy personnel organized for offensive operations and for the defense of Japanese naval facilities both overseas and in the Japanese home islands.
 It consisted of the following: 

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 HMS "Implacable" was an "Implacable"-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II.
 Upon completion in 1944, she was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and attacked targets in Norway for the rest of the year.
 She was subsequently assigned to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) where she attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk and targets in the Japanese Home Islands in 1945.
 The ship was used to repatriate liberated Allied prisoners of war (PoWs) and soldiers after the Japanese surrender, for the rest of the year.
 "Implacable" returned home in 1946 and became the Home Fleet's deck-landing training carrier, a role that lasted until 1950.
 She briefly served as the flagship of Home Fleet in 1950.
 During this time she participated in many exercises and made a number of port visits in Western Europe.
 She was placed in reserve in 1950 and converted into a training ship in 1952, and served as flagship of the Home Fleet Training Squadron.
 The ship was considered for a major modernisation in 1951–52, but this was rejected as too expensive and time-consuming.
 "Implacable" was decommissioned in 1954 and sold for scrap the following year. 

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 Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike (Japanese: テイルズ オブ ヴェスペリア 〜The First Strike〜 , Hepburn: Teiruzu Obu Vesuperia ~The First Strike~ ) is a 2009 Japanese animated film by Production I.G.
 It is directed by Kanta Kamei and written by Reiko Yoshida, featuring the voice talents of Kōsuke Toriumi, Mamoru Miyano, Mai Nakahara, Rika Morinaga, and Eiji Takemoto.
 The film is the prequel to the Namco Tales Studio's role-playing game "Tales of Vesperia" and the first animated feature film in the "Tales" series.
 "Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike" revolves around the two knights, Yuri Lowell and Flynn Scifo, from the Niren Corps as they protect a town from monsters with their allies. 

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 The Central District Army (中部軍 , Chubu gun ) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of the Japanese home islands during the Pacific War.
 It was one of the regional commands in the Japanese home islands reporting to the General Defense Command. 

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 The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
 It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale.
 The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle of the United States Army Air Forces. 

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Answer: The Doolittle Raid