Category

Pacific War

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Second Sino-Japanese War

Japanese invasion of China (1937–1945)

theater of World War II fought in the Pacific and Asia

Battle of Midway

1942 World War II naval battle

Battles of Khalkhin Gol

1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia

first air raid on the Japanese mainland conducted by the U.S. military on April 18, 1942

Soviet–Japanese War

invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo by the Soviet Union near the end of WWII

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

armed conflict in the 1930s between the Soviets, Mongolians, and Japanese

term used by the Allied forces to refer to Japanese human wave attacks

Dutch East Indies campaign

South-East Asian theater of World War II

campaigns of the Pacific War in Burma, Ceylon, India, Thailand, Indochina, the Philippines, Malaya and Singapore

people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime; e.g. United States service members during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages to transmit coded messages

Funafuti International Airport

airport in Tuvalu

1949 musical by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan

The Naked and the Dead

novel by Norman Mailer

military strategy, also called island hopping

Japanese holdout

World War II soldier in the Pacific who continued to fight after Japan surrendered

South West Pacific theater of World War II

theatre of operations

Asiatic-Pacific Theater

1941-1946 United States military theater of operations

1942–45 campaign in Japan during the Second World War

Battle of Dutch Harbor

1942 Japanese planned military offensive against the British territory of Nauru

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal

American campaign medal

World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft

code names assigned by the Allied Forces to aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy and Japanese Army

Mongolia in World War II

involvement of Mongolia in World War II

British military campaign medal

South West Pacific Area

Allied military command in World War II

Imperial Japanese plan to invade and occupy Fiji, Samoa, and New Caledonia

series of embargoes against Japan beginning in 1940

Japanese World War II plan for the defense of the Marianas Islands

Pacific Ocean Areas

1942–1945 Allied regional command in the Pacific War of World War II

Japanese naval codes

ciphers used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II

Korean Women's Volunteer Labor Corps

Korean part of the Women's Volunteer Corps

hypothetical tectonic weapon causing tsunamis

Japanese Women's Volunteer Corps

1944–1945 work group in Imperial Japan