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1944-02-16 – 1944-02-23 Battle of Eniwetok; Bombing of South East Asia, 1944-45. Operation Cockpit 1944-04-19; Operation Transom 1944-05-17; Bombing of Bangkok 1944-05-20; Operation Matterhorn 1944-06-05 – May 1945; Operation Meridian 1945-01-24 – 1945-01-29; Mariana and Palau Islands campaign. 1944-06-15 – 1944-07-09 Battle of Saipan ...
The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, ... Mariana and Palau Islands campaign 1944 Battle of Saipan 15 June 1944 [9]
The Fleet at Flood Tide: The U.S. at Total War in the Pacific, 1944–1945. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0345548726. Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001) [1953]. New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944–August 1944. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 8 (reissue ed.). Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
Baus Au (1942) — plan to hide materiel in the Philippines before the fall for later use in guerilla warfare; Cartwheel (1943–1944) — Major offensives in the South West Pacific Area, aimed at isolating the major Japanese base at Rabaul
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle of World War II and ... Over half of all American losses suffered in the Pacific occurred between July 1944 ...
The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville, one of the Solomon Islands. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific.
The Battle of Saipan was an amphibious assault launched by the United States against the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II between 15 June and 9 July 1944. The initial invasion triggered the Battle of the Philippine Sea , which effectively destroyed Japanese carrier-based airpower , and the battle resulted in the ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf [5] (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle') 23–26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. [6] [7] [8] [9]