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Chen Cheng Yan Xishan Peng Dehuai Chester W. Nimitz Douglas MacArthur Joe Stillwell Thomas Blamey Hein ter Poorten Aleksandr Vasilevsky Archibald Wavell Louis Mountbatten Kotohito Kan'inHajime Sugiyama Hideki Tojo Yoshijirō Umezu Osami Nagano Shigetarō Shimada Koshirō Oikawa Plaek Pibulsonggram Casualties and losses ≈4,440,000+ military casualties≈ 24+ million civilian casualties ≈3,340,000+ military casualties~960,000+ civilian casualties Campaigns of World War IIEurope Poland – Phoney War – Denmark & Norway France & Benelux – Britain – Balkans – Yugoslav Front – Eastern Front – Western Front (1944–45) – Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa Asia & The Pacific China – Pacific Ocean – South-East Asia South West Pacific – Japan – Manchuria (1945) Other Campaigns Atlantic – Strategic Bombing - North America Contemporaneous Wars Chinese Civil – Winter War – Soviet–Japanese Border – French–Thai – Ecuadorian–Peruvian Pacific War China – Pacific Ocean – South-East Asia – South West Pacific – Japan – Manchuria (1945)The Pacific War was the part of World War II—and preceding conflicts—that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in the Far East. The war began as a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China on July 7, 1937, but by December 1941, became part of the greater World War II, and lasted until August 14, 1945. The Pacific War saw the Allied powers against the Empire of Japan, the latter aided by Thailand and to lesser extent by its Axis allies Germany and Italy. The most decisive actions took place after the Empire of Japan attacked various countries, most notably the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the United States' Territory of Hawaii. The Pacific War culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, resulting in Victory over Japan Day and the end of World War II on August 15, 1945. The Surrender of Japan occurred aboard the battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  identi.ca newbook ue, 08 Sep 2009 14:13:56 GM We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's . Pacific War. - by Robert Schultz et al. - Naval Institute Press.  life.com unknown Wed, 27 May 2009 08:24:03 GM It was the first time an image of dead American troops appeared in LIFE during World . War. II without the bodies being draped, in coffins, or otherwise covered up. George Strock's Buna Beach photo -- now acknowledged as a . war. classic -- and other equally gruesome and ... The Toll in the . Pacific. : Buna Beach, 1943. This photo, in which three American soldiers lie dead in the sand on Buna Beach in New Guinea, was taken in February 1943, but was not published until September. ...  simple-talk.com Joe Celko Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:40:49 GM American supply planes in the . Pacific. theater in World . War. II would drop cargo via parachute on primitive islands where the US and Japan had military bases during and after World . War. II. The Islanders went from the Stone Age to the ... From Google Blog Search: "pacific war" |
