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[23] [218] The figure for battle deaths include Army prisoners who died in Japanese captivity; this is the standard itemization of for US deaths in the Pacific War. However, historian John W. Dower notes that there are inconsistencies within the official US statistics themselves. [ 217 ]
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; 1941-12-08 – 1942-01-31 Malayan Campaign; 1941-12-10 Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse; 1941-12-11 – 1941-12-24 Battle of Wake Island
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.
The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons (also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and in Japanese sources as the Second Battle of the Solomon Sea) took place on 24–25 August 1942 and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the second major engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Guadalcanal ...
Cartwheel (1943–1944) — Major offensives in the South West Pacific Area, aimed at isolating the major Japanese base at Rabaul. Chronicle (1943) — landings at Woodlark Island and Kiriwina, New Guinea; Toenails (1943) — landings at New Georgia; Postern (1943) — assault on Lae, Papua New Guinea.
United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Department of the Army. OCLC 63151382. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1975) [1950]. Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. VI. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. OCLC 21532278.
A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. United States of America: Belknap Press. ISBN 0-674-00680-1. Nevitt, Allyn D. (1998). "IJN Kikuzuki: Tabular Record of Movement". Combinedfleet.com "War in the Pacific: The First Year – The Rising Sun". A Guide to the Pacific War. National Park Service
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 ...