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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
It is the basis of campaign honors and awards for U.S. Army units and servicemen, [1] [2] but is not a comprehensive list of all the campaigns of the war, as it omits campaigns in which U.S. Army participation was minimal. [3] In all, 44 World War II campaigns were designated by the U.S. Army: 24 for the Asiatic–Pacific Theater, 19 in the ...
In Allied countries during the war, the "Pacific War" was not usually distinguished from World War II, or was known simply as the War against Japan. In the United States, the term Pacific theater was widely used. The US Armed Forces considered the China Burma India theater to be distinct from the Asiatic-Pacific theater during the conflict.
Military operations of the Second Sino-Japanese War (3 C, 13 P) Battles and operations of World War II involving the Solomon Islands (2 C, 45 P) South West Pacific theatre of World War II (10 C, 218 P)
Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier U.S. 5th Marines evacuate injured personnel during actions on Guadalcanal on November 1, 1942 An SBD Dauntless flies patrol over USS Washington and USS Lexington during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 12, 1943 USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in thirty seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu
Pacific Ocean theater of World War II: the naval and island campaigns in the Central Pacific, North Pacific and South Central Pacific, and; South West Pacific theater of World War II : the campaigns in and around the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, most of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and the British colonies in Borneo.
The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, also known as Campaign Plan Granite II, was an offensive launched by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Pacific Ocean between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War. [1] The campaign consisted of Operation Forager, which captured the Mariana Islands, and Operation ...
One of the first land offensives in the Pacific theatre was the invasion of German Samoa on 29–30 August 1914 by New Zealand forces. The campaign to take Samoa ended without bloodshed after over 1,000 New Zealanders landed on the German colony, supported by an Australian and French naval squadron.