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  2. Pacific War - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, the latter aided by Thailand and to a lesser extent by the Axis powers, Germany and Italy. The Japanese achieved great success in the initial phase of the campaign, but were gradually driven back using an island hopping strategy.

  3. Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific War lasted from 1941 to 1945, with the Empire of Japan fighting against the United States, the British Empire and their allies. Most of the campaign was fought on a variety of small islands in the Pacific region.

  4. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945

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    Continuing the story of the Pacific war, Twilight of the Gods covers the period from July 1944 to the end of the conflict in September 1945. The story begins with the July 1944 conference between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz in Hawaii, where the dispute between the two principal military leaders over the best path to defeat the Japanese was mediated by President ...

  5. The Conquering Tide - Wikipedia

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    The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 is the second volume in the Pacific War trilogy written by best selling author and historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the middle phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the central and southern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

  6. Japan campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Japan campaign was a series of battles and engagements in and around the Japanese home islands, between Allied forces and the forces of Imperial Japan during the last stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Japan campaign lasted from around June 1944 to August 1945.

  7. Japanese occupation of Nauru - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese occupation of Nauru was the period of three years (26 August 1942 – 13 September 1945) during which Nauru, a Pacific island which at that time was under Australian administration, was occupied by the Japanese military as part of its operations in the Pacific War during World War II.

  8. Pacific Crucible - Wikipedia

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    Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 is the first volume in the Pacific War trilogy, written by historian Ian W. Toll. The book is a narrative history of the opening phase of the Pacific War , which took place in the eastern Pacific between the Allies and the Empire of Japan .

  9. Aleutian Islands campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign of World War II fought ...