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The command structures of the Pacific War varied, reflecting the different roles of various belligerent nations, and often involving different geographic scopes. These included the following: American commands: Pacific Ocean Areas; South West Pacific Area; British and Allied commands: GHQ India, commanding the British Army in India; Eastern Fleet
Eastern Front: 1944-07-26 1944-08-13 Soviet Union Finland: Axis Operation Hokki: Continuation War: Eastern Front: 1944-07-31 1944-08-31 Soviet Union Finland: Axis Soviet submarine campaign (1944) Baltic Sea campaigns: Eastern Front: 1944-10 1944-12 Soviet Union Germany: Allies Soviet naval campaign (1945) Baltic Sea campaigns: Eastern Front ...
The naval Battle of the Eastern Solomons (also known as the Battle of the Stewart Islands and in Japanese sources as the Second Battle of the Solomon Sea) took place on 24–25 August 1942 and was the third carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II and the second major engagement fought between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Guadalcanal ...
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
Battles and operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union (9 C, 26 P) Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War (13 C, 168 P) Battle of Stalingrad (4 C, 29 P)
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [36] was the theater of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies in East and South East Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania.
Pacific War; American-British-Dutch-Australian Command; Pacific Theater of Operations. Pacific Ocean Areas; South West Pacific Area; South-East Asian Theatre. Burma Campaign; China Burma India Theatre; Japan. Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign; Soviet-Japanese War (1945) Soviet Manchurian Campaign (1945)
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...