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Ferdinand (1942) — coastwatchers on Japanese-occupied islands; Flintlock (1944) — assault on Marshall Islands. Catchpole (1944) — invasion of Eniwetok; Hailstone (1944) — naval air attack on Truk; Forager (1944) — assault on Marianas Islands; Galvanic (1943) — assault on Gilbert Islands; Gratitude (1945) — US Navy raid into the ...
The Battle of the Coral Sea, a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, was fought 4–8 May 1942 in the waters east of New Guinea and south of the Bismarck Islands between elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States (U.S.) and Australia.
American-British-Dutch-Australian Command; South East Asia Command; Far East Command, the Soviet command during the war against Japan in 1945; Japanese commands: Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese command which oversaw naval operations; Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the Japanese army command in the South West Pacific and South East Asia
Gilbert Islands. On 20 November 1943, simultaneous landings were made by United States Marine Corps forces on Tarawa and United States Army forces on Makin, two coral atolls located in the Gilbert Islands chain in the South-Central Pacific.
This is the order of battle for the Guadalcanal Campaign, called Operation Watchtower, the first major Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II. The campaign lasted from the initial American landings on 7 August 1942 until the final Japanese evacuation on 9 February 1943, a period of six months, far longer than was ...
The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific: Every Campaign of World War II. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-2769-7. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1951). Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls: June 1942 April 1944. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. VII. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-31658 ...
The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II between the United States and Japan. They were the first steps of the drive across the Central Pacific by the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps. The purpose was to establish ...
The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific: Every Campaign of World War II. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-2769-7. Moran, Jim; Gordon L. Rottman (2004). Peleliu 1944: The Forgotten Corner Of Hell. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-8417-6512-0. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1953). Leyte, June 1944 – January 1945.