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{{Title|UNSC ''Bunker Hill''}} | {{Title|UNSC ''Bunker Hill''}} | ||
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|class=[[UNSC destroyer]]<ref name="HE:270">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 270''</ref> | |class=[[UNSC destroyer]]<ref name="HE:270">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 270''</ref> | ||
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The '''UNSC'' Bunker Hill''''' was a [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] in the [[UNSC Navy]].{{Ref/Reuse|HE:270}} In [[2531]], it was the staging area for the [[Spartan-II]] team under command of [[John-117]] to [[Operation: SMOKING ACES|raid]] the [[Insurrectionist]] base of [[Camp New Hope]] on planet [[Victoria]] in the [[111 Tauri System]].<ref name="GoO:41">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 41''</ref> | |||
The '''UNSC'' Bunker Hill''''' was a [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] in the [[UNSC Navy]]. | |||
==Namesake== | ==Namesake== | ||
*The first possibility is that this vessel is named after the [[wikipedia:Battle of Bunker Hill|Battle of Bunker Hill]] early in the American Revolutionary war in 1775. | *The first possibility is that this vessel is named after the [[wikipedia:Battle of Bunker Hill|Battle of Bunker Hill]] early in the American Revolutionary war in 1775. | ||
*Another likelihood is it was christened the Bunker Hill to pay homage to its naval predecessors bearing the same name: the [[wikipedia:USS Bunker Hill (1917)|USS Bunker Hill (1917)]] originally a coastal steamer passenger ship, later acquired by the U.S. Navy and renamed the "Aroostook" (CM-3); or the World War II-era aircraft carrier [[wikipedia:USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)|USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)]]—perhaps the most well known of the ships bearing the Bunker Hill name, CV-17 partook in multiple battles in the Pacific campaign waged during the latter years of WWII including the battles of [[wikipedia:Battle of Iwo Jima|Iwo Jima]] and [[wikipedia:Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa]] the ship was eventually struck by two Japanese kamikazee pilots within 30 seconds of eachother crippling the ship; third to bear the Bunker Hill name is [[wikipedia:USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)|USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)]] a missile cruiser in the U.S. Navy that was commissioned in the late | *Another likelihood is it was christened the Bunker Hill to pay homage to its naval predecessors bearing the same name: the [[wikipedia:USS Bunker Hill (1917)|USS Bunker Hill (1917)]] originally a coastal steamer passenger ship, later acquired by the U.S. Navy and renamed the "Aroostook" (CM-3); or the World War II-era aircraft carrier [[wikipedia:USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)|USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)]]—perhaps the most well known of the ships bearing the Bunker Hill name, CV-17 partook in multiple battles in the Pacific campaign waged during the latter years of WWII including the battles of [[wikipedia:Battle of Iwo Jima|Iwo Jima]] and [[wikipedia:Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa]] the ship was eventually struck by two Japanese kamikazee pilots within 30 seconds of eachother crippling the ship; third to bear the Bunker Hill name is [[wikipedia:USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)|USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)]] a missile cruiser in the U.S. Navy that was commissioned in the late 1980s and served through the early part of the 21st century. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Destroyers|Bunker Hill]] | |||
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