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Operation Stab
| Operation Stab | |||||||
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| Part of the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom Australia Netherlands |
 Japan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| James Somerville | Unknown | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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1 battleship 2 carriers 4 light cruisers 6 destroyers 1 minelayer 2 corvettes 2 sloops 1 aux vessel 2 tankers 10 transport ships | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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4 aircraft destroyed 4 killed (flying accidents) |
1 aircraft destroyed 9 killed | ||||||
Operation Stab was a British naval deception during the Second World War to distract Japanese units for the forthcoming Guadalcanal campaign by the US armed forces.
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