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The Pacific War of World War II, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. [36] It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater , the South West Pacific theater , the Second Sino-Japanese War , and the ...
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 Area, [1] were commanded by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas
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The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II between the United States and Japan. They were the first steps of the drive across the Central Pacific by the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps. The purpose was to establish ...
The American Theater [1] was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into the ocean.. Owing to North and South America's geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict (in Europe, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Pacific) the threat of an invasion of the continental U.S. or other areas ...
Map of the maritime security zone created by the Declaration of Panama in October 1939, based on straight lines between points about 300 nautical miles offshore.. During the early years of World War II before the United States became a formal belligerent, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a region of the Atlantic, adjacent to the Americas, as the Pan-American Security Zone.
1942-08-24 – 1942-08-25 Battle of the Eastern Solomons; 1942-10-11 – 1942-10-12 Battle of Cape Esperance; 1942-10-25 – 1942-10-27 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands; 1942-11-13 – 1942-11-15 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; 1942-11-30 Battle of Tassafaronga; Solomon Islands campaign. 1943-01-29 – 1943-01-30 Battle of Rennell Island
Although many campaigns were fought in Asia and the Pacific, the major focus of the U.S. Army was always on the European Theater, where most its strength was ultimately deployed. U.S. forces saw action in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942, and the subsequent Tunisia Campaign in 1943. [17]