Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In comparison, the Japanese army enjoyed close air support from the start of the campaign, and sought to capture bases for their air support to operate from. [ 51 ] On 25 December, the Second division of Squadron 5 , Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force was deployed to Singapore, contributing to the Allied cause before being recalled to ...
A map showing the progress of the Borneo campaign. The plans for the Allied attacks were known collectively as Operation Oboe. [13] The invasion of Borneo was the second stage of Operation Montclair, [1] which was aimed at destroying Imperial Japanese forces in, and re-occupying the NEI, Raj of Sarawak, Brunei, the colonies of Labuan and British North Borneo, and the southern Philippines. [14]
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.
The 16 officially recognized US Army campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations are: [3] Pacific Ocean Areas Command: Central Pacific: 7 December 1941 – 6 December 1943, allied landings on Tarawa and Makin during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign; Air Offensive Japan: 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
Malaysian Army AW109, armed with 20mm gun and rockets for area suppression. Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat; The Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat ('Army Air Corps') is the army aviation branch formed around a core of Royal Malaysian Air Force officers.
A 7-Eleven store in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The Japanese-owned American chain of convenience store has around 2,000 stores in the country as of 2016. [31] [32]The earliest significant economic relations between the territories now part of Malaysia, in particular Malaya, was the US involvement in the production and trade of tin and rubber. [33]
The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in China.
The US entered WWII with the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on 7 December 1941 and exited with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945. The article covers the US role as one of the major Allies, the military operations in the Pacific and Europe, and the home front support.