Pacific War

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The Pacific War was the major theater of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, marked by naval and island campaigns between the Allied powers and Japan from 1941 to 1945.

Aliases (33)
  • Pacific Theater of World War II ×69
  • Pacific Theater ×37
  • Pacific theater of World War II ×19
  • World War II in Asia ×19
  • World War II in the Pacific ×13
  • Pacific Theater of Operations ×10
  • Pacific theatre of World War II ×7
  • Pacific Ocean theater of World War II ×6
  • Second World War in Asia ×6
  • Pacific theater ×5
  • World War II Pacific campaign ×4
  • Asia-Pacific War ×2
  • 太平洋戦争 ×2
  • Asian and Pacific Theater ×1
  • Far East theatre of World War II ×1
  • Japan in World War II ×1
  • Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II ×1
  • Pacific War theater ×1
  • Pacific campaign of World War II ×1
  • Pacific campaigns in World War II ×1
  • Pacific campaigns of World War II ×1
  • Pacific theater of World War II (historical region) ×1
  • Pacific theater operations in World War II ×1
  • South Pacific ×1
  • War in the Pacific ×1
  • World War II Pacific Theater ×1
  • World War II Pacific campaigns ×1
  • World War II in Asia and the Pacific ×1
  • World War II in East Asia ×1
  • World War II in Japan ×1
  • World War II in the Pacific theater ×1
  • World War II naval operations ×1
  • World War II submarine operations in the Pacific ×1

Statements (74)
Predicate Object
instanceOf conflict
theater of war
alsoKnownAs Asia-Pacific War
Pacific Theater of Operations
belligerent Australia
British India
Canada
China
Empire of Japan
French Indochina
Netherlands
New Zealand
Philippines
Soviet Union
Thailand
United Kingdom
United States
civilianImpact widespread civilian casualties in Asia
combatantStrength millions of military personnel
concludedBy Japanese Instrument of Surrender
consequence dissolution of the Empire of Japan
independence movements in Asia
occupation of Japan
endDate 1945-09-02
hasPart Aleutian Islands campaign
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Midway
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of the Coral Sea
Burma campaign
Dutch East Indies campaign
Guadalcanal campaign
Hong Kong campaign
Malayan campaign
New Guinea campaign
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
Philippines campaign (1944–1945)
Singapore campaign
Solomon Islands campaign
Soviet–Japanese War (1945)
keyEvent atomic bombing of Hiroshima
atomic bombing of Nagasaki
location East Asia
Indian Ocean
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
Southeast Asia
majorCampaignType island hopping
notableTechnology aircraft carriers
atomic weapons
naval aviation
radar
submarines
opponent Allied powers
Axis powers
partOf World War II
precededBy Second Sino-Japanese War
primaryAdversary Empire of Japan
United States
relatedTo CBI Theater
European theater of World War II
result Allied victory
startDate 1941-12-07
surrenderSignedOn USS Missouri
theaterCommander Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Isoroku Yamamoto
Tomoyuki Yamashita
timePeriod 20th century
warfareType aerial warfare
amphibious warfare
naval warfare

Referenced by (475)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division ("Pacific Theater")
1st Marine Division (United States) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
27th Infantry Division (United States) ("Pacific theater of World War II")
2nd Carrier Division
3rd Marine Division ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
4th Marine Division ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
5th Carrier Division
6th Marines ("Pacific Theater")
ABDA Command
Akagi
Allied air forces ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
Battle of Bataan ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of Corregidor (1942) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of Edson's Ridge ("Pacific Theater")
Battle of Guadalcanal ("Pacific Ocean theater of World War II")
Battle of Iwo Jima ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of Leyte Gulf ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of Palembang ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
Battle of Rennell Island ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of Tulagi ("Pacific Ocean theater of World War II")
Battle of the Badung Strait ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Battle of the Java Sea ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Battle of the Philippine Sea ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of the Philippines (1944–1945) ("Pacific Ocean theater of World War II")
Battle of the Points ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of the Sibuyan Sea ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of the Tenaru ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle off Samar ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Cartwheel
Combined Fleet
Commander, South Pacific Area ("Pacific Theater")
Commander, Third Fleet ("Pacific Theater")
Doolittle Raid
Downfall
Eleventh Air Fleet
Fifth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
First Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Fourth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Hiryu
IJN cruiser Naka
Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army
Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
Japanese cruiser Kako
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign ("Pacific theater")
Mikuma
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ("Pacific Ocean theater of World War II")
New Zealand forces
Operation Blissful
Operation Cartwheel
Operation Cherryblossom
Operation Coronet ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Operation Goodtime
Operation Iceberg ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Operation MI ("Pacific Ocean theater of World War II")
Operation Meetinghouse ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Operation Olympic
Operation Watchtower ("South Pacific")
Pacific Ocean Areas ("Pacific Theater")
Pacific theater commands
Philippine Commonwealth Army ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Red Beach
Ryukyu Islands campaign ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Seventh Air Force ("Pacific Theater")
Shokaku
Shōhō
Sixth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Sixth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) ("Asian and Pacific Theater")
South Pacific Area command ("Pacific Theater")
Task Force 17 ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Thirteenth Air Fleet ("Pacific War theater")
Tokyo Express supply run
Tokyo Raid ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Twentieth Air Force ("Pacific Theater")
U.S. Army Americal Division ("Pacific Theater")
U.S. Navy Task Force 58 ("Pacific Theater")
USS Anderson (DD-411) ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
USS Astoria ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Astoria (CA-34) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Bowfin (SS-287) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Enterprise (CV-6) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Hammann (DD-412) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Hammann (DD-412) ("Pacific Theater")
USS Hornet (CV-8) ("Pacific Theater")
USS Iowa ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Lexington (CV-2) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Maryland ("Pacific Theater")
USS Mustin (DD-413) ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
USS Northampton (CA-26) ("Pacific Theater")
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Quincy (CA-39) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS West Virginia (BB-48) ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
United States Army Forces in the Far East
Victor 82
Yorktown class ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
theater
Admiralty Islands campaign
Aleutian Islands campaign
Allied strategic bombing of Japan
Bataan Death March
Bataan Peninsula ("Pacific theater of World War II (historical region)")
Battle of Ambon
Battle of Balikpapan (1942)
Battle of Cape Esperance
Battle of Cape Gloucester
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Hong Kong
Battle of Leyte
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Malaya
Battle of Manila (1945)
Battle of Mindanao (1945)
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Palembang
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Saipan
Battle of Savo Island
Battle of Singapore
Battle of Surigao Strait
Battle of Tulagi
Battle of the Badung Strait
Battle of the Eastern Solomons ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Battle of the Java Sea
Battle of the Makassar Strait
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Battle of the Philippines (1944–1945)
Battle of the Stewart Islands
Battle of the Sunda Strait
Borneo campaign (1945)
Burma Railway
CBI Theater
Dutch East Indies campaign
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
Henderson Field
Indian Ocean raid
Invasion of Guam
Invasion of Rabaul
Invasion of Tinian
Japanese coup d’état in French Indochina
Japanese occupation of China ("World War II in Asia")
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
Japanese occupation of Malaya
Japanese occupation of North China ("Second World War in Asia")
Japanese occupation of Shanghai ("Second World War in Asia")
Japanese occupation of Singapore
Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign ("Pacific theater of World War II")
New Guinea campaign
Nggela Islands ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Northern Solomons campaign
Operation Cottage ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Operation Detachment
Operation Forager
Operation Galvanic
Operation Hailstone
Operation Iceberg
Operation Ichi-Go
Operation MI
Operation Meetinghouse
Operation Ten-Go
Operation Toenails
Operation Watchtower ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Operation Z
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
Ryukyu Islands campaign
South Sakhalin Offensive Operation
South West Pacific Area
Tairiku Datsū Sakusen
Ten-Go
Tokyo Raid
Tulagi ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
atomic bombing of Nagasaki
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
attack on Pearl Harbor
partOf
Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan
Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan ("Second World War in Asia")
Battle for Henderson Field
Battle of Rennell Island
Battle of Tarawa
Battle of Tassafaronga
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
Battle of the Tenaru
Bloody Ridge
British Commonwealth forces
Cactus Air Force
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz
Chiang Chieh-shih ("World War II in Asia")
Commander of First Air Fleet
Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Fleet
Eleventh Air Fleet ("Pacific theater of World War II")
First Carrier Division
Harukichi Hyakutake
Hiryū
Hiryū-class aircraft carrier
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
Hyakutake Seikichi
Imperial General Headquarters
Imperial Japanese Army
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff ("World War II in Asia")
Imperial Japanese Navy
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff
Isamu Chō
Itagaki Seishirō ("World War II in the Pacific")
Japanese 10th Division
Japanese 11th Division
Japanese 3rd Division
Japanese cruiser Aoba
Japanese cruiser Tenryu
Japanese submarine I-168
Jisaburō Ozawa
Kaga
Keiji Shibazaki
Kwantung Leased Territory ("World War II in Asia")
Ledo Road
Marc A. Mitscher
Mineichi Koga
National Revolutionary Army ("World War II in the Pacific theater")
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Nobutake Kondō
Philippine Scouts
Rikichi Tsukada
Royal Australian Air Force ("World War II in the Pacific")
Sakai Takashi
Sasebo Naval Arsenal
Seiichi Itō
Shōji Nishimura
Sixth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Soemu Toyoda
Station HYPO
Takeo Kurita
Takeo Takagi
Thirteenth Air Fleet
Type 93 Long Lance torpedo
Type 93 Long Lance torpedo ("World War II in the Pacific")
USS Saratoga
Yamashita Tomoyuki
Yoshitsugu Saito
Zuikaku
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
長 勇 ("太平洋戦争")
conflict
1st Marine Regiment ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Allied ABDA Command
Allied forces ("Pacific Theater")
Allies of World War II ("Pacific Theater")
Bockscar ("Pacific Theater")
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ("Pacific Theater")
Bull Halsey ("Pacific Theater")
Cactus ("Pacific Theater")
Fifth Air Force ("Pacific Theater")
Free French Forces ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
Lockheed P-38 Lightning ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
Pennsylvania-class battleship ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Raymond A. Spruance ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Raymond A. Spruance ("Pacific Theater")
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
Richmond K. Turner ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ("Pacific Theater")
Thirteenth Air Force ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
USS Arizona (BB-39) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Chicago (CA-29) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Colorado (BB-45) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Enterprise (CV-6) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Essex (CV-9) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Hammann (DD-412) ("Pacific Theater")
USS Hughes (DD-410) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Maryland (BB-46) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Maryland (BB-46) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS New Jersey ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Pampanito ("Pacific Theater")
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Russell (DD-414) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Tennessee (BB-43) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Vincennes
USS West Virginia (BB-48) ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Wisconsin ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
William Halsey Jr. ("Pacific Theater")
William Halsey Jr. ("Pacific Theater")
Zuikaku ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
theaterOfOperations
44-86292
Benson-class destroyer ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Circle R ("Pacific Theater")
Grumman F4F Wildcat ("Pacific Theater")
Kawasaki Ki-45
Little Boy
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Nakajima Ki-44
Nakajima Ki-84
Nakajima Sakae 11
New Mexico class ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
North American B-25B Mitchell ("Pacific Theater")
Supermarine Seafire ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
usedInTheater
Allied air forces
Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich
Harry Schmidt
Hata Shunroku
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
Kiyohide Shima
USS Astoria
USS Mustin (DD-413)
USS O’Brien (DD-415)
USS Roe (DD-418) ("Pacific campaigns of World War II")
participatedIn
1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography
Aichi D3A
Hiryū
Merriel "Snafu" Shelton ("Pacific Theater")
Mikuma
Minoru Ōta
Musashi
Operation Downfall
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
USS Chicago ("Pacific Theater")
theaterOfWar
Allied military engineers
Dominion of Australia
Hideki Tojo
Isoroku Yamamoto
Osami Nagano
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
participantIn
Battle of Khalkhin Gol ("World War II in Asia")
Burma campaign
National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims ("World War II in Asia")
Nomonhan Incident ("World War II in the Pacific")
South-East Asian theatre of World War II
South-East Asian theatre of World War II ("Pacific Ocean theater of World War II")
relatedTo
Australian 9th Division
Dutch East Indies campaign ("Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II")
HMAS Canberra
Operation Chronicle
South Sakhalin Offensive Operation ("Far East theatre of World War II")
South Sakhalin Offensive Operation ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
theatre
Battle of Okinawa ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
Battle of the Pockets ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Finisterre Range campaign
Nakajima Ki-43 ("Pacific Theater")
Operation Postern
front
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin ("World War II in Asia")
Battle of the Admin Box ("World War II in Asia")
Central China Front ("World War II in Asia")
Chinese Communist Party forces ("World War II in Asia")
Japanese North China Area Army ("World War II in Asia")
historicalEra
Battle of Nanjing ("World War II in Asia")
Battle of Taierzhuang ("Second World War in Asia")
Battle of Wuhan ("World War II in Asia")
Battle of Xuzhou ("Second World War in Asia")
Chūichi Hara ("World War II in the Pacific")
historicalPeriod
1st Battalion, 1st Marines ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
3rd Battalion, 7th Marines ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
Mitsubishi Ki-67
North American P-51 Mustang ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
Rikusentai
notableTheater
Battle of Edson's Ridge
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Coral Sea
conflictIn
BB-38 ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Mogami class
Sims-class destroyer ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
USS Maryland ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
usedIn
Cairo Declaration ("Asia-Pacific War")
Fat Man
Sōryū
Val
warTheater
Allied Council for Japan ("World War II in the Pacific")
Allied occupation of Korea ("World War II in Asia")
Chinese Nationalist reoccupation of Shanghai ("World War II in Asia")
follows
Cairo Conference
Takeo Kurita ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
defense of Manila Bay ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
militaryTheater
Japanese cruiser Yubari
Mogami
Suzuya
navalTheater
Operation Blissful ("World War II Pacific campaign")
Operation Toenails ("World War II Pacific campaign")
Second United Front ("World War II in Asia")
timePeriod
Allied Land Forces
Combined Fleet
activeDuring
Pacific War ("Asia-Pacific War")
Pacific War ("Pacific Theater of Operations")
alsoKnownAs
Theme from "Guadalcanal March" (revised) ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Vice Admiral (Imperial Japanese Navy)
associatedWith
Formosa ("World War II in the Pacific")
Theme from "Guadalcanal March" (revised)
associatedWithConflict
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
United States Eighth Army
engagedIn
Kominka movement ("World War II in East Asia")
Supreme War Council of Japan
historicalContext
Chamorro people ("World War II in the Pacific")
Choiseul Island ("World War II Pacific campaigns")
historicalEvent
The Fall of Japan ("World War II in the Pacific")
The Great Raid
mainSubject
A Guy Named Joe ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Run Silent, Run Deep ("Pacific theater of World War II")
narrativeLocation
Imperial General Headquarters
Japanese colonial empire
significantEvent
Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum ("World War II submarine operations in the Pacific")
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
subject
Royal Rifles of Canada ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
Winnipeg Grenadiers ("Pacific theatre of World War II")
theatreOfOperations
Eureka Conference ("War in the Pacific")
Pearl Harbor Visitor Center ("World War II in the Pacific")
topic
Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Fleet ("Pacific theater of World War II")
Nakajima Sakae radial engine
usedDuring
Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Navajo language ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
usedInConflict
Kokusai Ki-59 ("Pacific theater")
Mitsubishi Ki-21 ("Pacific theater")
usedInRegion
Second Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
activeInConflict
Tiger of Malaya
associatedConflict
Leyte Gulf ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
associatedWithMilitaryTheater
Mikuma
belligerentIn
U.S. Army Americal Division
campaign
Douglas TBD Devastator ("Pacific Theater")
combatTheater
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument ("Pacific theater of World War II")
commemorates
Japanese Instrument of Surrender
conflictEnded
Potsdam Declaration
context
Shanghai International Settlement (British participation) ("Second World War in Asia")
declineCause
Victory at Sea
depicts
Kido Butai
engagedInConflict
Australian Army ("Pacific campaigns in World War II")
engagement
Navy Minister of Japan ("World War II in the Pacific")
eraOfSignificance
Commander, South Pacific Area
establishedDuring
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
focusesOn
Peleliu
hasHistoricalSignificance
World War II
hasPart
Frank Jack Fletcher ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
hasPartIn
atomic bombing of Nagasaki ("Pacific theater of World War II")
hasTheater
Battleship Missouri Memorial ("World War II in the Pacific")
hasTheme
V-J Day
hasToDoWith
Marshall Islands
historicalEventSite
International Military Tribunal for the Far East ("Pacific theater of World War II")
jurisdictionArea
HMS Exeter
laterTheatreOfWar
Shōwa era
majorEvent
From Pearl Harbor to Calvary ("World War II in the Pacific")
mentionsEvent
Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich
militaryConflict
Joe Rosenthal
militaryConflictCovered
The Pacific ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
narrativeFocus
Axis powers
notableCampaign
British Solomon Islands Protectorate ("World War II Pacific campaign")
notableEvent
Bright Peace ("World War II in Asia and the Pacific")
notableHistoricalContext
Douglas MacArthur ("Pacific theater operations in World War II")
notableWork
Tinian ("Pacific campaign of World War II")
operation
Fort Mills
playedRoleIn
August Revolution in Vietnam ("World War II in Asia")
precededBy
Axis
primaryTheater
Grumman F6F Hellcat ("Pacific Theater")
primaryTheaterOfOperations
Cairo Conference ("Pacific theater")
regionDiscussed
Mitsubishi Kinsei ("Pacific theater of World War II")
regionOfUse
Imperial Rule Assistance Association
relatedEvent
7th Marine Regiment ("World War II Pacific Theater")
service
The Naked and the Dead ("Pacific theater of World War II")
setIn
Rikichi Tsukada ("Japan in World War II")
sideInConflict
Florida Islands ("World War II naval operations")
strategicImportance
CV-8 ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
sunkInTheater
New Fourth Army Incident ("World War II in Asia")
temporalContext
Japanese occupation of Guangzhou ("World War II in Asia")
temporalLocation
I Corps ("Pacific theater")
theaterFocus
Guadalcanal
theaterOf
Kawasaki Ki-61
theaterOfOperation
Bockscar
tookPartIn
Battle of Midway ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
turningPointIn
Sims-class destroyer ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
usedInTheatreOfWar
1945 Pulitzer Prize for Photography ("Pacific theater of World War II")
warFrontDepicted
New Georgia Islands
wasBattlegroundIn
Japanese Communist Party ("World War II in Japan")
wasPersecutedDuring
Lungga River
wasStrategicLocationDuring
Central Pacific Ocean
wasTheaterOf
New Britain ("World War II Pacific campaign")
wasTheatreOf
William S. Parsons ("Pacific Theater of World War II")
workLocation
USS Arkansas ("Pacific Theater")
WWIITheater
大田実 ("太平洋戦争")
軍歴

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