The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

Pacific War, major theater of World War II that covered a large portion of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, with engagements occurring as far south as northern Australia and as far north as the Aleutian Islands.

The Pacific War of World War II, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. [36] It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater , the South West Pacific theater , the Second Sino-Japanese War , and the ...

2019年8月6日 · The Pacific Theater of World War II was, as one historian put it, "hands down the war's most hated theater in which to fight." And as the hundreds of thousands of American men who had just enlisted were about to learn, it was going to …

For six long months US forces fought to hold the island. In the end they prevailed, and the Allies took the first vital step in driving the Japanese back in the Pacific theater. With Guadalcanal in American hands, Allied forces continued to close in on Rabaul in New Britain.

While fires still roiled out of control at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces attacked more targets in the Pacific. Over the next three weeks, they swept across eastern Asia nearly to Australia, and invaded the Philippines.

2019年10月4日 · The Second World War stands as one of the most devastating conflicts in human history, one which we still feel the repercussions of to this day. Here, we will look at the Pacific Theater, the half of the war fought largely between the United States and Japan.

March 24, 1942 - Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific theater. April 3, 1942 - Japanese attack U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan. April 6, 1942 - First U.S. troops arrive in Australia. April 9, 1942 - U.S. forces on …

The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific.

2025年1月27日 · World War II - Pacific Theater, Allies, Axis: Air power enthusiasts have called the conquest of Saipan “the turning point of the war in the Pacific,” for it enabled the United States to establish air bases there for the big B-29 bombers, which had been developed for the specific purpose of bombing Japan.