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The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, ... Battle of the Coral Sea 4–8 May 1942; Doolittle Raid 18 April 1942 [4]
October 1943 – March 1945 Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan; 1945-05-15 – 1945-05-16 Battle of the Malacca Strait; New Guinea campaign. 1942-01-23 – Battle of Rabaul; 1942-03-07 – Operation Mo (Japanese invasion of mainland New Guinea) 1942-05-04 – 1942-05-08 Battle of the Coral Sea; 1942-07-01 – 1943-01-31 Kokoda Track ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle of World War II and arguably the largest naval battle in history. It was also the only time that an aircraft carrier was sunk by surface warship in the Second World War, when the Japanese Center Force sank the escort carrier Gambier Bay off Samar.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. Taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II , the battle was the first naval action in which the opposing fleets neither sighted nor fired upon one another ...
Baus Au (1942) — plan to hide materiel in the Philippines before the fall for later use in guerilla warfare; Cartwheel (1943–1944) — Major offensives in the South West Pacific Area, aimed at isolating the major Japanese base at Rabaul
Battles and operations of World War II involving the Solomon Islands (2 C, 45 P) South West Pacific theatre of World War II (10 C, 223 P) World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre (2 C, 42 P)
The Guadalcanal Campaign involved ten major battles, three on land and seven at sea. The naval battles included two carrier battles and five night surface actions. The naval battles might be considered tactical victories for one side or the other when gauged by the relative number of ships sunk, aircraft shot down, and experienced aircrews lost.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf [5] (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle') 23–26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. [6] [7] [8] [9]