Pacific War
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South East Asian campaigns: 1941-12-08 – 1945-08-15
1942-01-23 – Battle of Rabaul- 1942-03-07 – Operation Mo (Japanese invasion of mainland New Guinea)
1942-05-04 – 1942-05-08 Battle of the Coral Sea- 1942-07-01 – 1943-01-31 Kokoda Track Campaign
- 1942-08-25 – 1942-09-05 Battle of Milne Bay
- 1942-11-19 – 1942-01-23 Battle of Buna-Gona
- 1943-01-28 – 1943-01-30 Battle of Wau
- 1943-03-02 – 1943-03-04 Battle of the Bismarck Sea
- 1943-06-29 – 1943-09-16 Battle of Lae
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1943-06-30 – 1944-03-25 Operation Cartwheel - 1943-09-19 – 1944-04-24 Finisterre Range campaign
- 1943-09-22 – 1944-01-15 Huon Peninsula campaign
- 1943-11-01 – 1943-11-11 Attack on Rabaul
- 1943-12-15 – 1945-08-15 New Britain campaign
- 1944-02-29 – 1944-03-25 Admiralty Islands campaign
- 1944-04-22 – 1945-08-15 Western New Guinea campaign
Aleutian Islands campaign
1942-06-06 – 1943-08-15 Battle of the Aleutian Islands- 1942-06-07 – 1943-08-15 Battle of Kiska
- 1943-03-26 – Battle of the Komandorski Islands
Guadalcanal campaign
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1942-08-07 – 1943-02-09 Battle of Guadalcanal - 1942-08-09 Battle of Savo Island
- 1942-08-24 – 1942-08-25 Battle of the Eastern Solomons
- 1942-10-11 – 1942-10-12 Battle of Cape Esperance
- 1942-10-25 – 1942-10-27 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
- 1942-11-13 – 1942-11-15 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
- 1942-11-30 Battle of Tassafaronga
- 1943-01-29 – 1943-01-30 Battle of Rennell Island
- 1943-03-06 Battle of Blackett Strait
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1943-06-10 – 1943-08-25 Battle of New Georgia - 1943-07-06 Battle of Kula Gulf
- 1943-07-12 – 1943-07-13 Battle of Kolombangara
- 1943-08-06 – 1943-08-07 Battle of Vella Gulf
1943-08-17 – 1943-08-18 Battle off Horaniu- 1943-08-15 – 1943-10-09 Land Battle of Vella Lavella
- 1943-10-06 Naval Battle of Vella Lavella
- 1943-11-01 – 1945-08-21 Battle of Bougainville
- 1943-11-01 – 1943-11-02 Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
- 1943-11-26 Battle of Cape St. George
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
- 1943-11-20 – 1943-11-23 Battle of Tarawa
- 1943-11-20 – 1943-11-24 Battle of Makin
- 1944-01-31 – 1944-02-07 Battle of Kwajalein
- 1944-02-16 – 1944-02-17 Attack on Truk
- 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
- 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
- 1944-06-19 – 1944-06-20 Battle of the Philippine Sea
- 1944-07-21 – 1944-08-10 Battle of Guam
- 1944-07-24 – 1944-08-01 Battle of Tinian
- 1944-09-15 – 1944-11-25 Battle of Peleliu
- 1944-09-17 – 1944-09-30 Battle of Angaur
- 1944-10-20 – 1944-12-10 Battle of Leyte
- 1944-10-24 – 1944-10-25 Battle of Leyte Gulf
- 1944-11-11 – 1944-12-21 Battle of Ormoc Bay
- 1944-12-15 – 1945-07-04 Battle of Luzon
- 1945-01-09 Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
- 1945-02-27 – 1945-07-04 Southern Philippines campaign
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign
- 1945-02-16 – 1945-03-26 Battle of Iwo Jima
- 1945-04-01 – 1945-06-21 Battle of Okinawa
- 1945-04-07 Operation Ten-Go
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1945-05-01 – 1945-05-25 Battle of Tarakan - 1945-06-10 – 1945-06-15 Battle of Brunei
- 1945-06-10 – 1945-06-22 Battle of Labuan
- 1945-06-17 – 1945-08-15 Battle of North Borneo
- 1945-07-07 – 1945-07-21 Battle of Balikpapan
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See also
- Operation Downfall
- Pacific Theater of Operations
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Japanese war crimes
- Allied war crimes during World War II
- South-East Asian Theater
- Timeline WW II — Pacific Theater
- Japanese holdout
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Notes
- ^ The National World War II Museum, New Orleans
- ^ Russia and USSR in Wars of XX century http://www.soldat.ru/doc/casualties/book/chapter5_10_1.html#5_10_51
- ^ [1] Map of the Pacific Theatre
- ^ World War II Database: China. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
- ^ World War II: 1930–1937. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
- ^ The Emperor was using the Army to keep the Diet off-balance and shore up Imperial prestige, so he did not use his authority to rein in "cowboy generals" in China, even as the China war dragged on. Bix, Hirohito.
- ^ Georgi Dimitrov and the United National Front in China 1936-1944 (See: No. 22 New Soviet Aid for Chinese). Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
- ^ Kokushi Daijiten ("Historical Dictionary"), 1980: "It was not an official term, but a term of incitement used by the Japanese media, under the guidance of the military, in order to stir up the Japanese people's sense of crisis..." (Cited by Christopher Barnard, 2003, Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks, London & New York, Routledge Curzon, p.85.)
- ^ Peattie & Evans, Kaigun; Willmott, Barrier and the Javelin (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983).
- ^ Peattie & Evans, Kaigun.
- ^ Pearl Harbor to Midway. http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/ Military History Online. Retrieved on May 27, 2007.
- ^ Peattie, Mark R., & Evans, David C. Kaigun (United States Naval Institute Press, 1997); Parillo, Mark P. Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. (United States Naval Institute Press, 1993).
- ^ H. Bix, "The Shōwa Emperor's Monologue and the Problem of War Responsibility", Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1992, p. 344.
- ^ Remembering 1942, The fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942
- ^ Hoyt, Edwin P. (1986). Japan's War. Da Capo, 262–263. ISBN 0-306-80348-8.
- ^ Blair, Silent Victory
- ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420428a.html
- ^ Parillo, Japanese Merchant Marine; Peattie & Evans, Kaigun.
- ^ Thanks in part to terrible aircraft torpedoes.
- ^ Willmott, Barrier and the Javelin.
- ^ By John Murpy in Tambor. Blair, Silent Victory, p.246.
- ^ Willmott, op. cit.
- ^ Blair, Silent Victory; Parillo, Japanese Merchant Marine
- ^ Clay Blair, Silent Victory: The U. S. Submarine War Against Japan (Lippincott, 1975) and Theodore Roscoe, United States Submarine Operations in World War II (US Naval Institute Press, 1949).
- ^ Prange et al. Pearl Harbor Papers
- ^ Roscoe, Theodore. Pig Boats (Bantam Books, 1958); Blair, Silent Victory, pp.991-2.
- ^ Roscoe, Theodore. Pig Boats Bantam Books, 1958.
- ^ Larry Kimmett and Margaret Regis, U.S. Submarines in World War II
- ^ The US thereby reversed its opposition to unrestricted submarine warfare. After the war, when moralistic doubts about Hiroshima and other raids on civilian targets were loudly voiced, no-one criticized Roosevelt's submarine policy. (Two German admirals, Erich Raeder and Karl Dönitz, were charged at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials with violating international law through unrestricted submarine warfare; they were acquitted after proving Allied merchant ships were legitimate military targets, under the rules in force at the time.
- ^ David Stevens. Japanese submarine operations against Australia 1942-1944. Accessed 18 June 2007.
- ^ Carl Boyd, "The Japanese Submarine Force and the Legacy of Strategic and Operational Doctrine Developed Between the World Wars," in Larry Addington ed. Selected Papers from the Citadel Conference on War and Diplomacy: 1978 (Charleston, 1979) 27–40; Clark G. Reynolds, Command of the Sea: The History and Strategy of Maritime Empires (1974) 512.
- ^ Farago, Ladislas. Broken Seal.
- ^ Chihaya Masataka, in Pearl Harbor Papers, p.323. Chihaya went on to note, when IJN belatedly improved its ASW methods, the US submarine force responded by increasing Japanese losses.
- ^ Blair, Silent Victory, pp.359-60, 551-2, & 816.
- ^ Roscoe, op. cit.
- ^ Blair, p.877.
- ^ Uboat.net The Monsun boats. Accessed 18 June 2007.
- ^ [[2]]
- ^ [[3]]
- ^ Grey, Jeffrey (1999). A Military History of Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521644836.. Pages 184-186.
- ^ Skates, James. Invasion of Japan.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuclear_02.shtml Professor Duncan Anderson, 2005, "Nuclear Power: The End of the War Against Japan"] (World War Two, BBC History website) Access date: September 11, 2007.
- ^ See, for example, Alperowitz, G., The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1995; New York, Knopf; ISBN 0-6794-4331-2) for this argument.
- ^ Professor Duncan Anderson, "Nuclear Power: The End of the War Against Japan" (World War Two, BBC History website) Access date: September 11, 2007.
- ^ Chronology of Japanese Holdouts
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- Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 3, The Rising Sun in the Pacific. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961; Vol. 4, Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions. 1949; Vol. 5, The Struggle for Guadalcanal. 1949; Vol. 6, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier. 1950; Vol. 7, Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls. 1951; Vol. 8, New Guinea and the Marianas. 1962; Vol. 12, Leyte. 1958; vol. 13, The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas. 1959; Vol. 14, Victory in the Pacific. 1961.
- Masatake Okumiya, and Mitso Fuchida. Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan. Naval Institute Press, 1955.
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- John D. Potter, Yamamoto 1967.
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- ——. The Barrier and the Javelin. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Press, 1983.
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External links
- (French) La politique de la sphère de coprospérité de la grande Asie orientale au Japon
- Animated History of the Pacific War
- Canada at the Pacific War — Canadians in Asia & the Pacific
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