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Schoolchildren being evacuated in August, 1944. About 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes between 1943 and 1945 as a result of air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the Pacific War.
The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (Kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan. The evacuation started under the threat of Soviet invasion.
Operation Ke (ケ号作戦, Ke-gō Sakusen) [3] was the largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal, concluding the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. The operation took place between 14 January and 7 February 1943, and involved both Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) forces under the overall ...
Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 as a consequence of the First Sino-Japanese War and by the beginning of World War II many Japanese civilians had settled there. Between the Japanese surrender of Taiwan in 1945 and 25 April 1946, the occupying Republic of China forces expelled 90% of the Japanese living in Taiwan. [53]
The Capture of Attu: A World War II Battle as Told by the Men Who Fought There. Bison Books. ISBN 0-8032-9557-X. Wetterhahn, Ralph (2004). The Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought World War II's Arctic Air Campaign. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-7867-1360-7. MacGriggle, George L. Aleutian Islands. The U.S ...
Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet declaration of war, and the invasion of Manchuria. [1]
Operation Cottage was a tactical maneuver which completed the Aleutian Islands campaign.On August 15, 1943, Allied military forces landed on Kiska Island, which had been occupied by Japanese forces since June 1942.
World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...