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The Naval campaign of the War of the Pacific or Saltpeter war, was a naval campaign that took place from 1879 to 1884, involving Peru (as well as Bolivia), and Chile, undertaken in order to support land forces in the Atacama Desert. Although the conflict lasted until 1884, the primary naval engagements occurred between 1879 and 1880.
The Battle of Angamos (Spanish: Combate de Angamos) was a naval encounter of the War of the Pacific fought between the navies of Chile and Perú at Punta Angamos, on 8 October 1879. The battle was the culminating point of a naval campaign that lasted about five months in which the Chilean Navy had the sole mission of eliminating its Peruvian ...
Far East Command, the Soviet command during the war against Japan in 1945; Japanese commands: Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese command which oversaw naval operations; Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the Japanese army command in the South West Pacific and South East Asia
The First Battle of Antofagasta or the Bombardment of Antofagasta took place during the War of the Pacific.It was the first nightly raid of the War as well as the first raid of the Huáscar in a campaign to destroy and capture Chilean ports and ships.
Between the Malayan Campaign (130,000 discounting some 20,000 Australians), [234] Burma Campaign (86,600), [235] Battle of Hong Kong (15,000), [236] and various naval encounters, British, Dominion and Empire forces incurred some 235,000 casualties in the Pacific Theater, including roughly 82,000 killed (50,000 in combat and 32,000 as POWs).
The Battle of Iquique was a naval engagement on 21 May 1879, during the War of the Pacific, where a Chilean corvette commanded by Arturo Prat Chacón faced a Peruvian ironclad under Miguel Grau Seminario.
As of 2025, the Battle of Surigao Strait was the last battleship-to-battleship action in history, one of only two battleship-versus-battleship naval battles in the Pacific campaign of World War II. (The other was the naval battle during the Guadalcanal Campaign, where Washington sank the Japanese battleship Kirishima).
The great majority of naval engagements during the Pacific War were surface ship-to-ship gun and torpedo fights. [25] Submarine operations also played a significant, strategic role, enormously disproportionate to the number of naval personnel involved, for determining the course of the war.