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See also: List of New Zealand flags: A British Blue Ensign defaced with four stars of the Southern Cross in the fly half. 1981 – Flag of Palau See also: List of Palauan flags: 1971 – Flag of Papua New Guinea See also: List of Papua New Guinean flags: 1962 – Flag of Samoa See also: List of Samoan flags: 1977 – Flag of Solomon Islands ...
This is a list of campaigns during the Pacific War. Flags indicate the country, or countries, winning the offensive. ... See Atlas of the World Battle Fronts; 1943-07-01
As with the First World War, New Zealand and Australia were enthusiastic defenders of Britain in World War II, and some other member countries of the British Empire also sent troops. New Zealand forces served primarily in Europe, fighting in Greece , North Africa and Italy, but with some forces serving in Singapore , Fiji , and in the Solomon ...
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The rising sun in the Pacific, 1931 – April 1942. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06973-0. Obeyesekere, Gananath (1992). The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05752-4. Obeyesekere, Gananath (1997).
This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons .
Military history of Oceania by country (8 C) A. Ambushes in Oceania (5 P) F. ... Oceania in World War II (11 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Military history of Oceania"
Map of Oceania. This page lists the country subdivision flags in Oceania. It is a part of the Lists of country subdivision flags, which is split into continents due to its size. For purposes of this article, Oceania is taken to comprise Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
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.