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USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in thirty seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was defined by the Allied powers ' Pacific Ocean Area command, which included most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, while ...
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. The Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), divided into the Central Pacific Area, the North Pacific Area and the South Pacific ...
Major United States Army airfield in the Philippines from 1919. Occupied by Imperial Japanese Army January 1942 – January 1945. Active USAF base from after liberation until 1991 when destroyed after Mount Pinatubo explosion. Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) V Bomber Command, 14 November – 24 December 1941
The 43 officially recognized US Navy campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations are: [4] Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor - Midway: 7 December 1941. Wake Island: 8–23 December 1941. Philippine Islands operation: 8 December 1941 – 6 May 1942. Netherlands East Indies engagements: 23 January – 27 February 1942.
Inmate (1945) — naval bombardment of Truk. Juneau (1945) — minesweeping operations at Okinawa. Lentil (1945) — air attack on Pangkalan Brandan, eastern Sumatra. Majestic (planned for 1945, not executed) — planned Allied invasion of Kyushu. Scrapped in favor of Operation Olympic (under Operation Downfall) Meridian (1945) — air attack ...
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the Empire of Japan in the South Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of the Pacific Ocean areas which lay south of the Equator between longitude 159° East and 110° West. It included New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, and ...
The Borneo campaign or Second Battle of Borneo was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II to liberate Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo. Designated collectively as Operation Oboe, a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July 1945 were conducted by the Australian I Corps, under ...
South West Pacific Area[note 1] (SWPA) was the name given to the Allied supreme military command in the South West Pacific Theatre of World War II. It was one of four major Allied commands in the Pacific War. SWPA included the Philippines, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies (excluding Sumatra), East Timor, Australia, the Territories of Papua and New ...