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Western Oceania was a major site of conflict in World War II as the Japanese Empire sought to expand southwards. Since 1945 the region has been mostly at peace, although Melanesia has suffered from Indonesian expansionism in some areas and civil wars and coups in others. The Australian Defence Force is by far the largest military force in ...
French Oceania, WWII emergency issue currency, 2 francs (1943). The note was printed in Papeete for use in the colony of French Oceania . Generally the effect of informal interactions between the visiting armies and the local inhabitants had a far more lasting effect than the formal military activities.
List of codenames of naval and land based operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II including Japan, Oceania, and the Pacific Rim. Axis A-Go ...
Pages in category "Oceania in World War II" ... Pacific Islands home front during World War II This page was last edited on 25 August 2024, at 05:25 (UTC). ...
Oceania in World War II (11 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Military history of Oceania" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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.
This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese mainland ( Hokkaido , Honshu , Kyushu , Shikoku , and some 6,000 small surrounding islands) was renounced by Japan in the ...
This is a list of campaigns during the Pacific War. Flags indicate the country, or countries, winning the offensive. Second Sino-Japanese war Before 1942 and ...