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Futuna rallied to Free France two days later, but was not invested by the Allies. [5] The news was initially kept secret by the Allies. However, to remedy the protectorate's financial problems, Captain Molina sold Wallis-et-Futuna stamps bearing the day's date and the words France libre. The letters sent out spread the news of the capture of ...
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 islands are now part of Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. [ 3 ] In Japan, the territory is known as " Japanese Mandate for the Governance of the South Seas Islands " ( 委任統治地域南洋群島 , Inin Tōchi-ryō Nan'yō Guntō ) [ 4 ] and was governed by ...
The command structures of the Pacific War varied, reflecting the different roles of various belligerent nations, and often involving different geographic scopes. These included the following: American commands: Pacific Ocean Areas; South West Pacific Area; British and Allied commands: GHQ India, commanding the British Army in India; Eastern Fleet
Americans experienced the Pacific Islands including the U.S. organized incorporated territory of Hawaii through cinema and books which divided the inhabitants into submissive hula dancers or cannibals. [11] Also the American military was segregated at this time, further leading to the culture shock that awaited many in the Pacific Islands.
The annexation of the Leeward Islands (French: Annexion des îles Sous-le-vent) or the Leewards War (French: Guerre des îles Sous-le-vent) was a series of diplomatic and armed conflicts between the French Third Republic and the native kingdoms of Raiatea-Tahaa, Huahine and Bora Bora, which resulted in the conquest of the Leeward Islands, in the South Pacific archipelago of the Society Islands ...
League of Nations mandates in the Pacific Ocean. The South Seas Mandate (bordered in orange) is number 1. Japanese map of the South Seas Mandate in the 1930s. The Governor of the South Seas Mandate (officially known as the Director of the South Sea Agency) was an official who administered the South Seas Mandate, a Class C League of Nations mandate in the Pacific Ocean under the administration ...
In the Central Pacific, Midway Island was targeted, as were the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. Japanese strategists believed that the seizure of these key areas would provide defensive depth and deny the Allies staging areas from which to mount a counteroffensive.