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In Allied countries during the war, the "Pacific War" was not usually distinguished from World War II, or was known simply as the War against Japan. In the United States, the term Pacific theater was widely used. The US Armed Forces considered the China Burma India theater to be distinct from the Asiatic-Pacific theater during the conflict.
According to the Century 10, Quatrain 74 of The Prophecies (1555), [200] the "start" of the end of the world begins in the given date of 3797, with a prolonged global war lasting between 25 and 29 years, followed by a series of smaller wars, [201] but most interpretations of Nostradamus dates are aware of required basic mathematic sums, given ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
1941-12-07 (12-08 Asian Time) Attack on Pearl Harbor; 1941-12-08 Japanese invasion of Thailand; 1941-12-08 Battle of Guam (1941) 1941-12-07 Japan declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom; 1941-12-08 The United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Japan; 1941-12-08 – 1941-12-25 Battle of Hong Kong
The numbers correspond to recorded deaths during the Battle of Okinawa from the time of the American landings in the Kerama Islands on 26 March 1945 to the signing of the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, in addition to all Okinawan casualties in the Pacific War in the 15 years from the Manchurian Incident, along with those who died in ...
American forces suffered about 16,500 casualties –3,100 killed and 13,000 wounded– [279] out of 71,000 who were part of the assault force. [280] The casualty rate was over 20%, [281] which was comparable to Tarawa. [279] It was the Americans' most deadly battle in the Pacific up to that time. [282]
The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Territory of New Guinea on 23 January and Territory of Papua on 21 July and overran western New Guinea (part of the Netherlands East Indies) beginning on 29 March.
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 is the second volume in the Pacific War trilogy written by best selling author and historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the middle phase of the Pacific War , which took place in the central and southern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan .