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Imperial Japanese Army uniform between 1941 and 1945 (US Army poster) The Pacific War lasted from 1941 to 1945, with the Empire of Japan fighting against the United States, the British Empire and their allies. Most of the campaign was fought on a variety of small islands in the Pacific region.
The Pacific War, sometimes called the ... (十五年戦争, Jūgonen Sensō) is also used, referring to the period from the Mukden Incident of 1931 through 1945 ...
The Japanese Army 1931–45 (Volume 2, 1942–45). Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-354-3. Madej, Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937–1945. Game Publishing Company. ASIN: B000L4CYWW. Marston, Daniel (2005). The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-882-0.
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1968. Written as a counterweight to the controversial history textbooks, it attempts to survey the reasons for and the conduct of the Pacific War from 1931 to 1945. Translated and entitled variously: The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
South East Asian campaigns: 1941-12-08 – 1945-08-15 [12] Burma Campaign: 1941-12-16 – 1945-08-15; October 1943 – March 1945 Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan; 1945-05-15 – 1945-05-16 Battle of the Malacca Strait; New Guinea campaign. 1942-01-23 – Battle of Rabaul; 1942-03-07 – Operation Mo (Japanese invasion of mainland ...
Pacific war overview (1930–1945) [ edit ] Japan embarked on imperialistic initiatives in the 1930s which started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 leading to the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and invading French Indochina in 1940.
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] It is considered part of World War II , and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia.
After Operation Hailstone, the Japanese garrison on Truk was isolated as American forces continued their advance towards Japan by invading other Pacific islands. Cut off, the Japanese forces on Truk and other central Pacific islands ran low on food and faced starvation before Japan surrendered in August 1945. (Stewart, 1986)