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  2. Pacific Islands home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Islands then experienced military action, massive troop movements, and limited resource extraction and building projects as the Allies pushed the Japanese back to their home islands. [5] The juxtaposition of all these cultures led to a new understanding among the indigenous Pacific Islanders of their relationship with the colonial ...

  3. Pacific Ocean theater of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier U.S. 5th Marines evacuate injured personnel during actions on Guadalcanal on November 1, 1942 An SBD Dauntless flies patrol over USS Washington and USS Lexington during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 12, 1943 USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in thirty seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu

  4. Solomon Islands campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II.The campaign began with Japanese landings and capture of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942.

  5. Pacific War - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of naval and land-based operations in the Pacific ...

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    AL (1942) — invasion of the western Aleutians as a diversion from the attempted invasion of Midway Island. AOB (1942) — seizure of Kiska Island; AQ (1942) — seizure of Attu Island; Ke-Go (1943) — evacuation of Kiska, Aleutians; Nauru (1940) two German attacks on Nauru Island. First Attack (1940) sinking of five British, Australian and ...

  7. Asiatic-Pacific theater - Wikipedia

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    The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific.

  8. Battle of Eniwetok - Wikipedia

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    Map of Eniwetok Atoll The Battle of Eniwetok was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II , fought from 17 to 23 February 1944 on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands . The invasion of Eniwetok followed the American success in the Battle of Kwajalein to the southeast.

  9. Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) - Wikipedia

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    The invasion of Tulagi, on 3–4 May 1942, was part of Operation Mo, the Empire of Japan's strategy in the South Pacific and South West Pacific Area in 1942. The plan called for Imperial Japanese Navy troops to capture Tulagi and nearby islands in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.