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The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the ...
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. www.pacificwrecks.com (For names and geographic locations of airfields) Pacific War Airfields Project
The 16 officially recognized US Army campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations are: [3] Pacific Ocean Areas Command: Central Pacific: 7 December 1941 – 6 December 1943, allied landings on Tarawa and Makin during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign; Air Offensive Japan: 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier U.S. 5th Marines evacuate injured personnel during actions on Guadalcanal on November 1, 1942 An SBD Dauntless flies patrol over USS Washington and USS Lexington during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 12, 1943 USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in thirty seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu
The mystery was not solved until Americans found The Stewart battered but still floating in Kure, Japan at the end of the war. The ship was commissioned at a ceremony and towed back to San ...
The South West Pacific theatre, during World War II, was a major theatre of the war between the Allies and the Axis. It included the Philippines , the Dutch East Indies (except for Sumatra ), Borneo , Australia and its mandate Territory of New Guinea (including the Bismarck Archipelago ) and the western part of the Solomon Islands .