![]() ![]() Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942 – February 1943.Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign, 1945.Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, October 1944.Battle of Angaur, September – October 1944.Battle of Peleliu, September – November 1944.Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944 : 765.Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, 1944.Battle of Eniwetok, 17–23 February 1944.Battle of Kwajalein, 31 January – 3 February 1944 : 751.Battle of Tarawa, 20–23 November 1943.Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, November 1943 – February 1944.Japanese occupation of Nauru, 26 August 1942 - September 1945.Marshalls–Gilberts raids, 1 February 1942.Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands, 9 December 1941 - August 1945.Battle of Wake Island, 8–23 December 1941.Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.Battle of the Komandorski Islands, March 1943.Marine aims a Thompson submachine gun at a Japanese sniper, as his companion takes cover North Pacific Area See also: Pacific Ocean theater of World War II Japanese naval aircraft prepare to attack Pearl Harbor Okinawa, 1945. Major campaigns and battles Pacific Ocean Area No actual command existed rather, the Asiatic-Pacific Theater was divided into SWPA, POA, and other forces and theaters, such as the China Burma India Theater. Eisenhower in the European Theater of Operations). commander (comparable to General of the Army Dwight D. Spaatz.īecause of the complementary roles of the United States Army and the United States Navy in conducting war, the Pacific Theater had no single Allied or U.S. During 1945, the United States added the United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, commanded by General Carl A. The South West Pacific Area (SWPA) was commanded by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific Area. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas. The Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), divided into the Central Pacific Area, the North Pacific Area and the South Pacific Area, were commanded by Fleet Admiral Chester W. operational commands were in the Pacific. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. ![]()
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